(2021-10-20). Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism. thegrayzone.com The titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems across the West. The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend. Like 1.3 billion of her fellow Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system called Aadhaar in order to access public services, including …
(2021-10-19). UN-backed report reveals rising climate change risk across Africa. news.un.org Climate change contributed to mounting food insecurity, poverty and displacement in Africa last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and partners said, in a report published on Tuesday.
(2021-10-19). Forlorn Farmers, Fatal Fears. counterpunch.org The sinking local economy — weighed down by the years of drought, inflation and climate change — has exacerbated the farmers' problems. Their struggle for survival has become more difficult since the pandemic started, pushing many farmers to the brink of poverty
(2021-10-19). Emory Professor Dorothy Brown Explains Why The Tax Policy of The US Government Is Anti-Black. moguldom.com Dorothy Brown, a renowned scholar and law professor at Emory University, explains why U.S. tax policy in anti-Black in her new book, "The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans — and How We Can Fix It." Specializing her research in the area of race, class and tax policy, Brown got candid …