Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

  Gamal Abdel Nasser – An appraisal

“ The result is a world of two different trust realities. The informed public—wealthier, more educated, and frequent consumers of news—remain far more trusting of every institution than the mass population. In a majority of markets, less than half of the mass population trust their institutions to do what is right.”  Where People Are Loosing Faith in Capitalism Edelman Trust Barometer 2020

 Via Michael Roberts “Here we go again - the unending story of banking folk.” Australian bank Westpac has been fined A$1.3bn for money laundering the dubious money of 284 clients in 19m transactions worth A$11bn (yes, billion) - including clients engaged in child trafficking! But no arrests have been made of executives. Just a fine. "It’s huge, it’s the largest fine in history, it’s an eye watering number but it’s already pretty much been expected by the market" he said. "A few hundred mill difference in the scheme of a bank with a market cap of $60 billion that generates billions of profit annually, it doesn’t really have much of an impact with the valuation we put on the bank." Related Regulation does not work

  Free ebooks from Verso

 Schools should not teach about corruption. If you think the UK isn’t corrupt, you haven’t looked hard enough

 Why environmental justice is an anti-colonial struggle

There is only one truth, the God’s/Allah’s ‘way of life of free market liberal democracy’. All the rest is apostasy that must not corrupt our children’s minds. Let anyone who utters the word C be stoned. Schools told not to use anti-capitalist material in teaching 

 Atkinson, to my surprise, has echoed some of I what have personally experienced in England: the intolerance of people to my views and criticism and even their opposition to my free speech. Repression without a police state.

I am not really fond of academic events, but what Sinan Antoon says must be insightful. The ‘Sate of Emergency’ as the Rule Not the Exception

De 1956 à 1962, la France a ordonné à ses services secrets d’assassiner des citoyens français

 A Syrian gravedigger recounts a genocide, but is anyone listening?

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

 “ 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?

  YouTube, Zoom and Facebook censor Leila Khaled Meanwhile, Israeli Right raises $400K for Israeli convicted of burning a Palestinian family

One of the long-lasting effects of American war crimes Birth Defects and the Toxic Legacy of War in Iraq

The US is Using the Guardian to Justify Jailing Assange for Life Why is the Paper So Silent?

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

 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.

“ 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

  Water in the Middle East