Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

 Kill to clear land for eco-city

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. —Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852

The winning side

Note that capitalism is not mentioned even once. The article in the Culture section! Is it not sociology in photography lenses?  ‘Utopia and dystopia’

‘Be honest’, Dimon said, ‘He [Trump] was kind of right about NATO, kind of right on immigration. He grew the economy quite well. Trade. Tax reform worked. He was right about some of China.’ —Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JP Morgan In other words, classic liberal-capitalist policies,  à l’américaine . This is why  Trump continues to be a problem and not just a calamity .”

A brief-history of the Arab ballad

“Indifference, silence – that's the most terrible thing that could happen. On a poster I wrote: 'All of this happened because you stayed silent.'" —   Russian artist and activist Yelena Osipova