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'When Will Arab Nations Unite?’

A short reply to this question circulating in the social media. I fundamentally disagree with the basics of the analysis and the appeal. As the question states there are Arab nations, not one. They have been divided for a long time. They do not have common interests. Nor do they have an 'Arab NATO' or form  an 'Arab EU'.  So any comparison with one nation like Canada or England, for example, and that the US would defend in the event of a foreign attack, is misplaced. The US in fact would hurry to defend the UAE or Saudi Arabia. The Arab nations are divided and ruled by ruling classes (combrador bourgeoisies with different colours) that have more in common with the rulers in the West than with the Arab people in the respective countries. One has to link colonial division with the neocolonial studies as students at universities are doing. The UAE    and Turkey, for example, have been expanding their strategic outreach for more capital accummulation. Saudi Arabia has...

The Society of the Spectacle Today

“ Poverty and healthcare assume   the appearance   of individual responsibility, the state assumes   the appearance   of an obstruction to open market circulation flows, the commodity assumes   the appearance   of base survival, a satiated proletariat assumes   the appearance   of a good credit score, a redistribution of wealth assumes   the appearance   of socialism, a megalomaniac assumes t he appearance of fascism, culture assumes   the appearance   of a mechanism of empowerment, the struggle against racism assumes   the appearance   of democratic leaders taking the knee in kente cloth, a healthy economy assumes   the appearance   of a healthy population, ad nauseum. Whether in the aftermath of a Biden victory, riddled as it is with vacuous appeals for unity, or even in the more superficial 2019 pseudo-debate between Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson, whose harmony of apparent disparities bespoke more abou...
"I’m not a very passionate republican – many things bother me more than the monarchy. But as principles go it is unwavering. We have a  class problem in Britain  and the monarchy exemplifies it. If it’s a guilty pleasure I’m after, I don’t turn to betrothals in real-world feudal dynasties: I have Netflix. The political scientist Benedict Anderson  described countries as imagined communities . Call me a misery guts, but I’d rather imagine one in which I am born a citizen, not a subject, and others are not born to govern me." "The royal wedding" Note: Imagined Communities is a seminal book. It is an essential reading.