Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Review of  The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance  

“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

The extension of vaccine privilege outside the West is not an act of charity

And this is only one example. It is a con more than a scandal. It is a smokescreen, a cover, employed by a an imperialist state as an ideological tool: “we are good people and we show compassion.”  It is a deception. British aid is a scandal Related Aid in the case of Palestine

On the pandemic and the vaccine

 How wealthy nations are creating vaccine apartheid