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Tunisia

Interesting but in fact the analysis does a disservice to socialism for its sweeping statements. The reader has the impression that both Tunisia and Algeria were socialist countries at one time. In Tunisia the cooperative experiment was a small part of the economy. There was never a socialist economy. A planned economy is not the equivalent of socialism. Ben Salah and the Fate of Destourian Socialism
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Colombia

 “ Although the gaze of the country and the world is focused on police abuse, there is another abuse that cannot go unnoticed: Colombia, a country that signed a Peace Agreement in 2016, is today the scene of massacres again. Massacres that, week after week, continue to create panic in the regions, without anyone doing anything about it.“ Who protects Colombians?
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Finance Capital

This has been “normal” and “acceptable” for decades. There is a leak that followed by a few articles or there is an investigation then followed by s fine... And it goes on and on. US: $2tn of possibly corrupt financial activity JP Morgan Chase laundering more money
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 Naci in Palestina in Spanish and Tunisian Her first name is spelt wrongly almost everywhere. Emel instead of Ema’l. Emel in Arabic means hope. Ema’l means hopes/aspirations.
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Imperialism

“ Even during the Obama years, the US was using its extraterritorial power with increasing enthusiasm.” Why ‘even’? Wasn’t Obama a president of the biggest imperialist power? Many of course believed that he could have been a benevolent imperialist. This law of imperialism is not then about a “rogue” state like Iran or “undemocratic” on like Venezuela.    Beware the long arms of American and Chinese law
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Britain-Israel

 The Russian oligarch Abramovitch Israeli settlers’ Chelsea boss backer The reported herself used the word “view” to refer to “international law.” She repeated the same word used by Elad’s vice-president. “ In 2008,  The Times  reported that court papers showed Abramovich admitting that he paid billions of dollars for political favours and protection fees to obtain a big share of Russia's oil and aluminium assets.” Abramovitch became an oligarch thanks to the privatisation process initiated by the Perestroika. He was welcomed in Britain as an “investor”. A Chelsea football club supporter would comment on Abramovitch’s backing of Elad’s organisation: “That’s politics. I am interested in football.”
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HSBC

 It’s just another ponzi scheme. Nothing new. The bank, Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation, Britain’s largest bank Moved Ponzi scheme despite warning Related US: $2tn of possibly corrupt financial activity JP Morgan Chase laundering more money
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Feminism

  A History of Arab Feminism (a 2015 documentary) A liberal perspective. A whole essay could be written as a critique of the documentary. Here some of my thoughts on it: Very informative, although I disagree with the approach and the omissions. “Feminism” is not one. But it is obvious in this documentary that “liberal” feminism, i.e. the feminism of the “free market” Western capitalism, is the reference and criteria. “Liberal feminism” includes sexualisation of the body and commodification of women, exploitation of women as cheap labour, although that has a contradictory aspect, for it helps women join the labour force and gain some rights. It is also obvious in the documentary that the “liberation” of Tunisian women did originally and mostly came from above, not through a radical movement. But the documentary wanted to say that it came through both. The documentary has some inaccuracies in the English translation. Example: تونس دولة مدنية must be translated “Tunisia is a civic st...
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