Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Hospitals may not cope

Covid-19 and the garment industry’s invisible hands

Twenty Years After Bashar Al-Asad’s Succession

Two main things are at stake if sourcing cotton from Xinjiang, China, would stop tomorrow: the fashion industrialists have to a find other suppliers of cotton at the same/similar price, for the rate of profit is key, and a risk that shops in the West and elsewhere would be unable to provide apparels at an affordable price for consumers. At the end of the day, this type of complicity has been going on for decades. “Virtually entire fashion industry complicit in Uighur forced labour”

Time is not on our side

Citizenship Test ‘misleading’ and ‘false’ on slavery I suggest the following question be added to the Test: The following is an account that took place in a British colony. When and where did it happen?  1. India between 1870-1876 2. Iraq between 1920-1922 3. Kenya between 1952-1956 "Interrogation under torture was widespread. Many of the men were anally raped, using knives, broken bottles, rifle barrels, snakes and scorpions. A favourite technique was to hold a man upside down, his head in a bucket of water, while sand was rammed into his rectum with a stick. Women were gang-raped by the guards. People were mauled by dogs and electrocuted. The British devised a special tool which they used for first crushing and then ripping off testicles. They used pliers to mutilate women’s breasts. They cut off inmates’ ears and fingers and gouged out their eyes. They dragged people behind Land Rovers until their bodies disintegrated. Men were rolled up in barbed wire and kicked aroun...

“You know there is something wrong with your economy when it’s more impoverishing to be in work than out of it.” An advice from an FT columnist to the capitalists 

Passages to Modernity in Europe and the Middle East by Isam Al-Khafaji A good book I read last year.

Capital Wars

Hollywood and Anti-Muslim Racism

A review of Women vs Capitalism by Vicky Pryce

30 years ago A revolution compromised

The Secretary General of the UN

Surprise! Surprise! Ethnic minorities: those who do not work hard enough, don’t speak our language, lack the skills, don’t want to integrate, don’t climb the property ladder, live on benefits, etc, etc. Covid-19 impact on ethnic minorities linked to housing and air pollution

The woman who designed the first built-in kitchen Related A communist designed your kitchen

Is capitalism racist?

Very good! The Use of Free Speech in Society

“Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine” is the Dumbest Story Yet

The Gulf States’ Political Economy

Protests predicted to surge globally