Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

  The Colombian state confirms that 145 social movement leaders were murdered in 2021 alone .

 An apartheid state

Fuelling political violence across the continent

Court overturns criminalising ‘imitation of opposite sex’

On BBC Radio 4

“ Since 2014 the Russian authorities have significantly increased their economy’s ability to withstand a severe shock, especially the banking and financial sectors. The country’s central bank has drastically reduced its US dollar holdings and 87% of Russians now hold a Mir card that uses a national payment system. If the US carries out its threat to disconnect Russia from the SWIFT international payments system, as it did to Iran in 2012 and 2018, financial transactions between Russian banks and businesses can now be made via a homegrown financial messaging system. So Russia feels better equipped to face severe sanctions if it comes to a conflict. On the other hand, the last mobilisation of the Russian army on the Ukrainian border, in spring 2021, prompted the revival of the Russian-US dialogue on strategic and cybersecurity issues. And this time, too, the Kremlin has clearly reckoned that upping the tension was the only way to get the West’s attention, and that the new US administrati...

I was surprised to see this on Aljazeera Arabic. I had read the story of Adam and Even in 1990/1991 in a book published in Syria.  مفاجأة بالنسبة لي أن أعثر على هذا على موقع الجزيرة Translation from Arabic:  “The story of Adam and Eve is a purely human invention. Its origins are Sumerian – one of the oldest civilizations known to man. It is a story like all distorted stories, but its peculiarity is that it is a story that changed the course of the entire world, established the principle of male superiority and legitimized the inequality between human beings and the injustice that women are subjected to today.” Aljazeera Arabic, 2016