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Two Revolutions: The Haitian Revolution 1804 The Cuban Revolution 1959

  Review of Machineries of Oil: An Infrastructure History of BP in Iran

Yves Hayat. — «   Brexit   », de la série «   Parfum de révolte   », 2016. Courtesy Galerie Mark Hachem, Paris The COVID pandemic slump and the underlying weakness of British capital are much more damaging to the UK's economic future than Brexit. Brexit is just an extra burden for British capital to face; as it also will be for British households. The Brexit deal

 82 major brands have slaves working in their supply chains

 It is a nightmare that Americans easily sleep through Related Birth defects and the toxic legacy of the war on Iraq

 The apparent hoax at the centre of New York Times ‘Caliphate Podcast’

 A variant of capitalism “140 companies failed to pay £6.7m to more than 95,000 workers”

  A Syrian film and TV series director and script writer passed away on 29 December 2020

 A new variant of life “Quarantine? What quarantine? We are British!” Brits in Switzerland Brits in Australia

The author here does not consider the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt or Ennahda in Tunisia, for instance, part of the counter-revolution–socially and economically. He does not mention how and why they got support from the major imperialist powers, either. It is also a liberal journalistic piece that does not mention the class character of the Islamist parties even once. The end of political Islam as we know it

 

An excellent piece by Bourdieu. In English, French and Spanish  Manufacturing public debate

The words are spoken by Le Carré’s fondly loved character George Smiley. “ The privately educated Englishman – and Englishwoman , if you will allow me – is the greatest dissembler on Earth,” he says. “Was, is now and ever shall be for as long as our disgraceful school system remains intact. Nobody will charm you so glibly, disguise his feelings from you better, cover his tracks more skilfully or find it harder to confess to you that he’s been a damned fool.” –John le Carré, The Secret Pilgrim

A very interesting argument here. What can science learn from religion?

How the EU is complicit in Egypt’s brutal regime

15 janvier 1939-26 décembre 2020 Militant et écrivain tunisien