Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Locals living in cars because they cannot afford rent Related Melilla migrant deaths:  Who's to blame? Of Pets and Men

We implement extremist policies at home and abroad. We support extremist regimes. We support an extremist super-power. We engage in extremist wars. We sell extremist weapons. We support an extremist genocidal regime. We normalise extremist salaries, extremist wealth, extremist financial sector …  As you know, it's all right to treat ’extremists’ extremely. It's the desire to normalise one’s extremism that makes regimes like the UK’s call their enemies ’extremists’ . When the next violent attack takes place in a Western city they will as usual tell us about ‘terrorism’ re-mobilising their massive media – public and private – to hide their massive state violence in its different forms and shapes – mainly their economic and military violence.

Domenico Losurdo’s new book I have read and I recommend Losurdo’s  Liberalism – A Counter-History . A book praised even by the Financial Times Related Losurdo on social-political struggle Interview on opendemocracy

Another story of Western racism

So far, the major imperialist states supporting Israel in its genocidal war have not acted the way they did against ISIS when the latter killed ‘Westerners’. A friend, an ally, a state that is a European colonial creation, one that shares some similarities with the history of the Western colonial, racist and white supremacist history, and a very important geopolitical regime for imperialism in the region is still allowed to kill ‘Westerners’/Western nationals’ . ‘The price is worth it’. After a period of blackouts, the BBC is publishing what cannot be ignored. The criminals are heartbroken upon hearing of the death of three aid workers.

 غونتر أندريس: البشريّة خلقت الظروف المناسبة لإبادة نفسها

The democratic petty bourgeois, far from desiring to overturn the whole of society for the revolutionary proletarian, strives for a change in social conditions which will make the existing society as endurable and comfortable as possible for him. —Karl Marx  The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be. —Theodor Adorno

A valuable insight on Cuba since the early 1990s. I find it strange though that someone trained in ‘Marxist historiography’ calls the pre-1989 eastern European countries / the USSR ‘socialist countries’ and defends the ‘Western’ sanctions on Russia.