{"id":303367,"date":"2017-04-12T08:27:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T07:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/imf-documents-labours-declining-share-of-global-income\/"},"modified":"2017-04-12T08:27:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T07:27:21","slug":"imf-documents-labours-declining-share-of-global-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/imf-documents-labours-declining-share-of-global-income\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF documents labour\u2019s declining share of global income"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>IMF documents labour\u2019s declining share of global income<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Nick Beams<br \/>\n    <br \/>12 April 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In recent weeks, as part of the intensifying war drive against Russia, various US politicians have put forward the proposition that Vladimir Putin and his government\u2019s campaign of \u201cdisinformation\u201d are responsible for rising social discontent in the US and other major economies.<\/p>\n<p>In US Senate hearings at the end of last month, Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio claimed Putin was engaged in \u201cinformational warfare,\u201d seeking to exploit social protests in order to portray America as a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, claimed that Russia was using disinformation to \u201cundermine America\u2019s strength and leadership,\u201d while Republican Susan Collins said the Russians were \u201ctrying to disrupt society\u201d and \u201ccast doubt on Western democracies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat, joined this chorus, claiming that the regime of Vladimir Putin was alienating people in the West from their governments and undermining trust in \u201cour institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the growth of social opposition in the US, Europe and the major economies is the product of a Russian plot.<\/p>\n<p> A report issued by the International Monetary Fund this week, Chapter 3 of its <em>World Economic Outlook<\/em>, prepared for its spring meeting later this month, exposes the farcical character of the attempts by the increasingly desperate ruling classes in the US and elsewhere to revive the propaganda of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>Titled \u201cUnderstanding the Downward Trend in Labor Income Shares,\u201d it details the massive transfer of wealth from labour to capital over the past four decades, one of the main drivers of ever rising social discontent.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IMF analysis: \u201cIn the advanced&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/04\/12\/labo-a12.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 IMF documents labour\u2019s declining share of global income By Nick Beams 12 April 2017 In recent weeks, as part of the intensifying war drive against Russia, various US politicians have put forward the proposition that Vladimir Putin and his government\u2019s campaign of \u201cdisinformation\u201d are responsible for rising social discontent in the US and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}