Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

  How Bangladesh sold its future to the Gulf states

  Why can’t Britain handle the truth about Winston Churchill?

 An example of class struggle and how the state sides with capital. At War , a film by Stéphane Brizé Related Class struggle with dark realism

 The life and death of Leon Trotsky

 By Iranian filmmaker and photographer Mostafa Heravi

  Commemoration in Idlib

  Inside the university recruitment machine

Violence and dispossession invite violence and death. This is the long-lasting virus. Jihadists and the curse of gas and rubies in Mozambique

“ Poverty and healthcare assume   the appearance   of individual responsibility, the state assumes   the appearance   of an obstruction to open market circulation flows, the commodity assumes   the appearance   of base survival, a satiated proletariat assumes   the appearance   of a good credit score, a redistribution of wealth assumes   the appearance   of socialism, a megalomaniac assumes t he appearance of fascism, culture assumes   the appearance   of a mechanism of empowerment, the struggle against racism assumes   the appearance   of democratic leaders taking the knee in kente cloth, a healthy economy assumes   the appearance   of a healthy population, ad nauseum. Whether in the aftermath of a Biden victory, riddled as it is with vacuous appeals for unity, or even in the more superficial 2019 pseudo-debate between Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson, whose harmony of apparent disparities bespoke more about the spectacle than it did about political polarization—in all that surrounds

 “ I remember that, when I taught history and institutions of the Islamic world at Urbino university in the late 1990s, sometimes my classes were literally empty. After 9/11 the classes were filled up of students (I was teaching in Milan at that time), but how much was their interest sincere? Actually, popular interest in Islam is strongly conditioned by contingent outward circumstances and today xenophobic  and Islamophobia propaganda does not help to develop the field.  Again: Italy is a parochial country. I believe to be a free-thinker, normally antagonist towards consolidate [sic] and mainstream positions, both in thinking and in politics. I am not comfortable with the Western society I live therein because I believe it is grounded on hypocrisy and false prejudices. The main one is the conviction that we Europeans and Americans (mostly white of course, WASP) are depositary of absolute and universal truths, eternal, out of history – we would be indeed the makers of the end of histor

 Selling weapons of death, partner in crimes. US remains top arms exporter

  We shouldn’t be surprised by the chaos

  Why the French fear American ideas

  An interview with historian Enzo Traverso

 “I’m trying to abolish everyone’s boss”

  The Colonial Contradictions of Albert Camus

  Study Links Nike, Adidas and Apple to Forced Uighur Labour Related Britain: MPs criticise companies over China forced labour

 An act of British state violence

 A liberal argument. “ In Switzerland, population 8.5 million, that number is  estimated  between 21 and 37. These are fractions so small they barely register on a calculator.” In 2009, the French newspaper  Le Figaro  estimated that only 2,000 women in France–out of a total French population of 65 million–wear the burga in France. Targeting Muslims makes them even more visible, only contributing to an increase of racism and Islamophobia. The process is cyclical. Normalising anti-Muslim bigotry