Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil Published in 2002, but ...

Civil War (?) An exaggeration, I think.

Britain's bourgeois democracy This Bunkered Island

"Why do we still use the term sub-Saharan Africa?

We should flatly refuse the situation to which the Western countries wish to condemn us. Colonialism and imperialism have not paid their score when they withdraw their flags and their police forces from our territories. For centuries the foreign capitalists have behaved in the under-developed world like nothing more than criminals.”  —Frantz Fanon “Imperialism after all is an act of geographical violence through which virtually every space in the world is explored, charted, and finally brought under control. For the native, the history of colonial servitude is inaugurated by loss of the locality to the outsider; its geographical identity must thereafter be searched for and somehow restored. Because of the presence of the colonizing outsider, the land is recoverable at first only through imagination.”  —Edward Said War on Want

Inside the Syrian Dust Bowl

Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt?

Note that the Washington Post here is not questioning corporate education and how the system is organised to reproduce the elite in the US and in other countries. It is only questioning/exposing the excesses, which shouldn't be exploited by Trump in a context of electoral campaigns. Good! The more they stink, the better.

As Sturgeon "launches a fresh call for a referendum on independence", here is a background analysis

How has Islamic orthodoxy changed over time?

180 million workers have gone on strike in India الهند: أكبر إضراب عمالي في التاريخ إضراب مماثل نظم السنة الماضية

Here is of the things the Liberals have done in the last 20 years. IMF chief,  Christine Lagarde, also blogged  that  “Weak global growth that interacts with rising inequality is feeding a political climate in which reforms stall and countries resort to inward-looking policies. In a broad cross-section of advanced economies, incomes for the top 10 percent increased by about 40 percent in the past 20 years, while growing only very modestly at the bottom. Inequality has also increased in many emerging economies, although the impact on the poor has sometimes been offset by strong general income growth” . And what is their solution now? More globalisation. Some of them even argue for the colonization of Mars . That is what we can call a global economy of priorities that serves humanity!

Resistance hero Manolis Glezos still fighting for Greece at 93 The Greek Hero on the Beach

The City: London and the Global Power of Finance

Mother Theresa has been made a saint by the Pope. "MT was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of  poverty . She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. And she was a friend to the worst of the rich, taking misappropriated money from the atrocious Duvalier family in Haiti (whose rule she praised in return) and from Charles Keating of the Lincoln Savings and Loan. Where did that money, and all the other donations, go?" — Christopher Hitchens A new exposé of Mother Theresa shows that she —and the Vatican—were even worse than we thought

Our men in Tashkent: Murray and Karimov The West and Karimov's Anti-terrorism Charade