(2021-10-24). 24yo head armorer on Alec Baldwin's movie set described as 'a bit careless with the guns' at previous job — media. rt.com 
The armorer who was preparing prop guns at the set of Alec Baldwin's movie 'Rust' was reportedly seen doing her job in an unsafe manner on an earlier production, including handing an unchecked gun to a child actress. | Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 24, was working her second production as head armorer when actor and producer Baldwin accidentally shot dead the film's director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and wounded director Joel Souza. It was later revealed that Baldwin was assured by his assistant director that the gun was "cold," or safe to use, moments before he pulled the trigger. | A new report has suggested…
(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). 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). 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…
(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). Educators across the US South call for a mass working-class movement to end the pandemic. wsws.org Our committees, comprised of educators in Alabama, Tennessee and Texas, call for a mass movement of the working class to fight for the global elimination of COVID-19.
(2021-10-23). [Perspectives] Making visible medicine's roots in colonialism. thelancet.com Inflammation is a way that the body responds to damage or a threat. It involves various systems working through complex signalling and feedback mechanisms. The inflammatory response can take many forms—acute or chronic, localised or systemic—but its underlying purpose is to repair damage and recover the body's usual state. Yet this system of healing comes with the potential for injury. As physician Rupa Marya and author, film-maker, and academic Raj Patel observe in Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, "When the damage keeps coming, the repair cannot fully happen, leaving the inflamma…
(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). Systemic Crisis Further Exposes Inequalities: Poor Women's Global Struggle Against Hunger and Pandemic. orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad — Oct 22, 2021 | Without a doubt, the global pandemic of covid-19 has had a devastating impact on the economy and, consequently, on the population. Its appearance has accelerated a systemic crisis that was already underway, and has brought to light the need for an urgent change in the dynamics of relations imposed by the capitalist system. | Although at the beginning of the pandemic many hopeful people believed that it would be an opportunity for a paradigm shift to occur, what we have seen until then has been a deepening of barbarism in which the common denominator has been the domination o…