Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

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Should it be cancelled to protect workers?

From the archive 1,000 ways to say no in Arabic

  Economist Branko Milanovic  described  recent events as the “largest setbacks to global poverty and inequality reduction since the end of Second World War.” The rot at the heart of the global economy

TB outbreak in Bahraini prison Background "The Americans told me honestly: 'we can't affect change in Bahrain unless the British agree. And the British won't agree unless the Saudis agree'," he said. "It is clear that since 2011 our political decisions have been transfered to Saudi Arabia and it will continue there."

“Disgusting!”  Feeding in stables a  “system of cell prison”  for the animals.  “ In these prisons animals are born and remain there until they are killed off. The question is whether or not this system connected to the breeding system that grows animals in an abnormal way by aborting bones in order to transform them to mere meat and a bulk of fat—whereas earlier (before 1848) animals remained active by staying under free air as much as possible—will ultimately result in serious deterioration of life force?” Karl Marx, Marx-Engels Archives, Sign. B. 106, 336; quoted in Kohei Saito, “Why Ecosocialism Needs Marx,”  Monthly Review  68, no. 6 (November 2016): 62. See also Holderness, “The Origins of High Farming,” 160–61. Capitalist production, war and the current food crisis