Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

"Business is business" "Pubs charging more during England games," says the BBC. Prices at London hotels more than doubled after London bombing  It's all goood for business! Court ruled seeling weapons to Saudi Arabia during Yemen war was lawful! It saves British jobs!

I like Losurdo's answers on the subject of liberalism, but also his criticism of some aspects of Marxism. An interview with Domenico Losurdo

UK Good news! A quarter of estate agents are in "financial distress" . They are parasites anyway. Using David Graeber's description, I think they are "bullshit jobs" too.

Mexico: violence, corruption and inequality For more details, see  " The Geopolitics of Mexico ", especially the part from "Geolitical imperatives" onwards

Racism and the rise of the right: a reading list

Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India  by Shashi Tharoor, Penguin 2017 Excerpts, part 1, with my comments  The criminal Tony Blair has refused to personally apologise to the Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhaj, who was tortured in a jail in Libya following a rendition operation mounted with the help of MI6 ... 
Compare that with this: "When Willy Brandt was chancellor of Germany, he sank to his knees at the Warsaw Ghetto in 1970 to apologize to Polish Jews for the Holocaust. There were hardly any Jews left in Poland, and Brandt, who as a socialist* [sic] was persecuted by the Nazis, was completely innocent of the crimes for which he was apologizing. But in doing so—with his historic kniefall von Warschau (Warsaw Genuflection), he was recongnizing the moral responsibility of the German people, whom he led as chancellor... Of course not everyone agrees that even atonement is due. Historian John Keay put it best: 'The conduct of states, as of individuals, c

"The horror of the twentieth century was not something that burst into a world of peaceful coexistence suddenly and from without. At the same time, being dissatisfied with the edifying picture of the habitual hagiography and situating oneself on the firm ground of reality, with its condtradictions and conflicts, does not in any way mean denying the merits and strong points of the intellectual tradition [of liberalism] under examination. But we certainly must bid farewell once and for all to the myth of the gradual, peaceful transition, on the basis of purely internal motivations and impulses, from liberalism to democracy, or from general enjoyment of negative liberty to an ever wider recognition of political rights. Moreover, has liberalism definitely left behind it the dialectic of emancipation and dis-emancipation, with the dangers of regression and restoration implicit in it? Or is this dialectic still alive and well, thanks to the malleability peculiar to this current of tho

Echoes For Samira al-Khalil

The Silence الصمت

Those who refuse to be homogenized by the global capitalist culture; those who are outside the fanum , the "sacred liberal order",  and ... If  we just make Muslims liberal, everything will be alright!  Islamophobia in Germany