Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

"The world at a fascist moment" "Fascist"? Not even "neo-fascist? I have also noticed that there is no questioning of "democracy", the one used in the mainstream discourse.

"According to a  Political Instability Task Force  estimate that between 1956 and 2016 a total of forty-three genocides took place, causing the death of about 50 million people. The  UNHCR  estimated that a further 50 million had been displaced by such episodes of violence up to 2008."  " Next to the Jews in Europe," wrote  Alexander Werth ', "the biggest single German crime was undoubtedly the extermination by hunger, exposure and in other ways of . . . Russian war prisoners." Yet the murder of at least 3.3 million Soviet POWs is one of the least-known of modern genocides; there is still no full-length book on the subject in English. It also stands as one of the most intensive genocides of all time: "a holocaust that devoured millions," as  Catherine Merridale  acknowledges. The large majority of POWs, some 2.8 million, were killed in just eight months of 1941–42, a rate of slaughter matched (to my knowledge) only by the 1994 Rwanda genoc...