(2021-10-23). Pandora Papers: Who Needs Exotic Tax Havens When the U.S. is Already a Big One? strategic-culture.org 
Sam Pizzigati co-edits inequality.org which researches and highlights the growing wealth gap in the United States. The organization is widely respected as non-partisan, and has produced numerous papers and books on the subject which are used as critical resources by civic society and policymakers in the fight against economic inequality. | The answer is simple, says author and researcher Sam Pizzigati who coedits
(2021-10-23). Towards Technofascism: Vaccine Passports and the Inequality Virus in the Debate. libya360.wordpress.com Eder Peña As part of the normality that, like a promised land, they have repeatedly offered during the pandemic, some governments of the Global North have created mechanisms to control mobility based on the inoculation of vaccines against covid-19. The so-called vaccine passport has raised a debate that goes beyond vaccines and calls into question…
(2021-10-23). Maid on Netflix: A single mother struggles to extricate herself from poverty and abuse. wsws.org Maid is a 10-episode drama series created by Molly Smith Metzler. It premiered on Netflix October 1 and has been one of the streaming platform's top-rated shows for the past several weeks.
(2021-10-23). Amazon and Google: Partners in Israeli Apartheid. dissidentvoice.org The best-selling Irish novelist Sally Rooney is openly shunning Israel after recent reports from human rights groups warned that Israel practices apartheid, systematically oppressing Palestinians under its rule. But while Israel risks becoming a pariah among some cultural producers, it is being aggressively embraced by globe-spanning corporations like Amazon and Google — among the wealthiest …
(2021-10-23). US billionaires are now $2.1 trillion richer than before the pandemic. nationofchange.org Not only did the wealth of U.S. billionaires grow, but so did their numbers: in March of last year, there were 614 Americans with 10-figure bank accounts. Today there are 745.
(2021-10-23). Public Health or Private Wealth? How Digital Vaccine Passports Pave Way for Unprecedented Surveillance Capitalism. strategic-culture.org 
Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism | By Jeremy LOFFREDO, Max BLUMENTHAL | 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 pub…