Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Algeria An interview with Hamza Hamouchene

“There was this vagueness about the word that just seemed to be not just corruptible but almost inherently corrupt,” says the writer, film-maker and activist. “I was attracted to words like liberation, emancipation, equality, revolution, socialism. Any other word would get my pulse going more than democracy.” For her, democracy was a word imperial America used to sell free markets and push its agenda. Writer and film maker  Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution

French police brutality

A liberal analysis on the "counter-revolution" in Sudan with emphasis on regional geo-politics "The counter-revolution will not be televised"

The banks in "liberal democracies" They are fined and they carry on with business as usual until they commit another crime. Then we fine them and they carry on with business as usual. What else could be done? It is not "human nature" and some "rogue agents"?  Obviously, founding a bank has not ever been better than robbing one as it is today. "Deutsche Bank was embroiled in a vast money-laundering operation, dubbed the  Global Laundromat . Russian criminals with links to the Kremlin, the old KGB and its main successor, the FSB, used the scheme between 2010 and 2014 to move money into the western financial system. The cash involved could total $80bn, detectives believe." Deutsche Banks and other banks in Russian money-laundering schemes

Yemen: Death from above

Indonesia Jokowi's challenges

The Last Note A movies by Pantelis Voulgaris (It will play after closing two or three pop up windows)

UK housing Crisis? Well, imagine  what would have happened  if we let those refugees and migrants who drowned in the sea in our tiny country. Unaffordable? Why cannot you work more and harder? Few new houses being built? Why should developers build affordable houses and banks give you a mortgage if there is no profit to make? Where is the incentive? How is our economy supposed to grow?  Jack lives in a cupboard and says that  some people "might find sleeping in such a small space would make them feel claustrophobic but Jack insists he doesn’t mind it." That's the great British patriotic attitude and spirit we need, espcially in times like these (Brexit, etc).  Inside the housing crisis

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain