Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

 The states supplying the guns that kill Mexican journalists

 Human-made materials now outweigh Earth’s entire biomass

 Young Chinese brush up on ‘Das Kapital”

 The division over Brexit. A liberal left view. A civil war with British capitalism Related UK government and military accused of war crimes cover up

 Deep and comprehensive dependency

 A historical victory for coal miners

 1960’s covert activities in Latin America

" Men  make  their  own history, but they do  not  make it as they please; they do  not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from  the  past." Almost the complete opposite of fascism

 International Criminal Court finds war crimes but it will not take action

“The question of whose stories we tell, whose culture we privilege, and which forms of knowledge we immortalise into formal learning are inevitably influenced by our Western colonial heritage” says Lucy Rycroft-Smith, editor and developer at  Cambridge Mathematics . How modern mathematics emerged from a lost Islamic library

 A very engaging review of Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism

 Football: Debunking the ‘opium of the people’

A book review   Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World

 Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa

 “Collateral damage” Civilians killed in air strikes soars by 300%

 Why the Australian state supports Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians

 A general strike in context

  The top 1% of households own 43% of global wealth, 10% owns 81%, while the bottom 50% have just 1%

 A new Gramsci mural

 Students plan the largest rent strike in 40 years

 How has it embraced ethnic nationalism?