Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Labour anti-Semitism crisis escalates as Jeremy Corbyn admits to sharing Hitler’s vegetarian belief The "Antisemitism" Panic How Israel lobby manufactured UK Labour Party’s anti-Semitism crisis

The future of our earth looks bleak, capitalism will be established in space in the near future. So will tax havens! " To evangelists of asteroid mining , the heavens are not just a frontier but a vast and resource-rich place teeming with opportunity. According to NASA, there are potentially 100,000 near-Earth objects — including asteroids and comets — in the neighborhood of our planet. Some of these NEOs, as they’re called, are small. Others are substantial and potentially packed full of water and various important minerals, such as nickel, cobalt, and iron. One day, advocates believe, those objects will be tapped by variations on the equipment used in the coal mines of Kentucky or in the diamond mines of Africa. And for immense gain: According to industry experts, the contents of a single asteroid could be worth trillions of dollars."

Everything Must Change: South Africa’s Fork in the Road See also Marikana massacre: the untold story of the strike leader who died for workers’ rights

Two amusing headlines by foreignpolicy.com,  Thursday, April 28 " U.S. servicemembers who were involved in the October 2015 strike on an MSF hospital in Afghanistan will receive counseling and letters of reprimand..." " Despite a conflict in South Suden [sic] that has left 50,000 dead, Washington is still hesitating to impose sanctions and an arms embargo on the country..."

A good analysis, but with a utopia. "But for all the clarity of this historical continuity, it cannot deliver us from the particularities of the present. The most obvious difference between the pre- and postmodern circulation struggles is the contemporary primacy of the “race riot.” That term too easily forgets the great inversion that occurs sometime after the world wars. From the nineteenth century on, the racialized riots of the United States featured white mobs attacking not just African-American but famously Asian and Latin American groups — events among which the Zoot Suit Riots are only the best-known example. It’s not until the ‘60s that the phrase fastens its current meaning. There is something bizarre and perhaps obscene in the extent to which the political memory of “the sixties” is in the US dominated by the free speech and antiwar movements. This is not to diminish such projects, but rather to underscore the historical forgetting of the great rebellions of Watts, N

Britain Jeremy Hunt doesn’t understand junior doctors. He co-wrote a book on how to dismantle the NHS

The Iraq War Never Ended: An Interview with Anand Gopal