Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

A movie Escape from Pretoria

Sinews of War and Trade  – an interview with Laleh Khalili

Who are the looters and the looted?

For years those who spoke about how the American state directly and indirectly established a 'world order' through violence and blood were, and still are, dismissed as anti-Americans, attacked as lunatic leftists, or apologists for the crimes of 'communism'. Now some of the empire's violence can be explicitly painted on the New York Times pages. We are really living in interesting times! The 'Liberal World Order' Was Built With Blood Related Are We ISIS? How the West won

US funded rock bands to dent Chavez and promote "democracy"

Tory privatisation? Doesn't that absolve New Labour? Tory privatisation is at the heart of the UK's disastrous coronavirus response

How 'Jakarta' Became the Codeword for US-Backed Mass Killing

The new immigration rules are not really about Brexit

"Anything, Anytime, Anywhere"

In an authoritarian regime labelled as "Europe's last dictatorship," a Canadian-owned German company represses trade union rights. Note that Germany and Canada are "democracies."

Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

You can't control what you don't own. Big pharma rejected EU plan to fast-track-vaccines in 2017

Capital gains reveal extent of top one per cent income

I notice that the Guardian's liberal view of "global development" corresponds with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's view. Lockdown gives asylum seekers reprive and hope Related Agents of their own abuse

Covid Trials at an International Court? Seriously? Bush and Blair destroyed a whole country with hundereds of thousands of people killed a consequence of sanctions, war and civil war aince 1990... and we did not see any trial. Trump will stand trial for mismanagement? I don't think so. Americans will wait for the next election, the big ritual, as a solution. In Yemen the Saudi monarchy, a Western friend, has played a significant role in the biggest humanitarian crisis propably since the Korean war. Will we see Mohamed Bin Salman and Co. at international court? After the lockdown, we need a reckoning

How Yemen's Dream of Unity Turned Sour Related A page from Yemen's history Monuments of Famine

When billionaires talk about 'revolution', they mean how to prevent threats to the system Talking about revolution, but proposing reform

Debunking the myth of overpopulation

"The idea of offering pay cuts to save the jobs of precarious academic staff - canvassed for example at LSE - is well intended but naive. It’s reminiscent of the justification for the social contract in the 1970s - wage controls would benefit the lower paid. The problem is the same: what mechanism ensures that the pay saved goes to keeping on precarious staff? If university unions had the power to enforce such a mechanism against the unscrupulous bosses who run universities today they would be able to defend jobs more directly. There is no substitute for building up workers’ collective power, which means continuing the Four Fights Campaign and rejecting the employers’ offer." —Alex Callinicos, King's College London