Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

When the New York Times brings its support for US militarism home

New York Times' meltdown on Tom Cotton Related     Tel Aviv, Israel, 06 June 2020 Related Another deleted article by the New York Times: "The Harvey Weinstein of Islam"

The killing of Iran's top military man Mr Raab, the UK Foreign Secretary, told the BBC the US "had a right to exercise self-defence". Self-defence because Qassem Soleimani was in the Atlantic Ocean with a Revolutionary Guard special force, heading towards Miami to attack the US. What Raab said is complicty in crime of an imperialist state, an ally of the US Cheerleading for a war with Iran

Why the Corporate Media Won't Call It a Coup 

State violence: Destruction of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem Another NYT's biased report

Funnily enough, one  article  that does put the nuclear deal “violation” in some semblance of context appears on none other than Israel’s  Ynet  news website and asserts that “the real violation was that of the Trump administration, which decided to pull out of the nuclear deal altogether and renew sanctions on Iran.” Note: I wonder why Jacobin's editors let slip the "half a million Iraqi children killed by sanctions." Although it is a quote, inaccuracy should be highlighted. The Corporate Media is Aiding Trump's Saber-Rattling

Like in most analyses, missing is the historical fact of an overlap of sect and class in some Arab countries. Example: one has to look at the position of the majority of the Syrian bourgeoisie towards the uprising and the regime since the outbreak of the uprising and then the war. Postel:  In recent years, a narrative has taken hold in Western policy and media circles that attributes the turmoil and violence engulfing the Middle East to supposedly ancient sectarian hatreds. "Sectarianism" has become a catch-all explanation for virtually all of the regionʹs problems. This narrative can be found across the political spectrum – from right-wing voices with openly anti-Muslim agendas, to softer liberal-centrist articulations and even certain commentators on the left. In its various forms, this sectarian essentialism has become a new conventional wisdom in the West. It is an intellectually lazy, ideologically convenient and deeply Orientalist narrative. The West's ...

Many of those condemning the regime today include a cross-section of US government, think tank, and media personalities that are themselves guilty at best of ignoring, and at worse covering up, the authoritarian nature of the Saudi regime and the various forms of systematic violence it deploys (let alone the US role in propping up the regime, providing the means of that violence, and many times participating in the actual acts of violence).  Kashoggi himself was for a long time part of the Saudi regime of power, and only recently fell out with its current top echelons (i.e., Mohammed bin Salman) and thus defected. Saudi Arabia's Long History of Dictatorship and Opposition

The NYT ties religion to Harvey-Weinstein-type of criminal behaviour