Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Some of the arguments in this review are very interesting. Here is one of them. “If you had told someone at the start of 1975 that the architects of the new age were going to be the  MP  for Finchley [Margaret Thatcher] , the bishop of Krakow [ Pope John Paul  II] , the exiled ayatollah [ Khomeini]  and the ostracised apparatchik [ Deng Xiaoping , you would have been laughed at. Apart from anything, they looked so powerless. So we shouldn’t be surprised if we can’t yet spot who is going to make the difference this time round. What we’re waiting for is the counter-counter-revolution, led by progressives who have learned the lessons from the age of neoliberalism and are unafraid to make use of its instruments in order to overthrow them. Plenty have started trying. Someone will get there in the end and maybe by the end of the decade we will discover who. But it is unlikely to be anyone near a position of power right now.”

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Who will benefit?

Les êtres humains pourraient tous vivre bien En English

Rebranding of Palestinian dishes as ‘Israeli’ cuisine in Western countries

Five Crises

‘British troops to help at Poland-Belarus border’ ‘Polish forces tear-gas migrants at Belarus border’ ‘Poland to build border wall to stop migrant influx’ ‘Freezing to death on the edge of the EU’ The sad fact is that we have become immune to the suffering of other people unless they are pets or useful material. After all, they are not white Belarusians fleeing ‘the last dictatorship in Europe’.

The forgotten Arab Republicans

“ The National Crime Agency has estimated that £90bn of criminal money is being laundered through the UK every year, 4% of the country’s GDP. London has become the global capital of money-laundering and the beating heart of European organised crime. English is now the international underworld’s lingua franca. Crime is an essential part of the British economy, providing hundreds of thousands of jobs, not just for professional criminals – the NCA reckons there are  4,629 organised crime groups  in operation – but for police and prison officers, lawyers and court officials, and a security business that now employs more than half a million people.” Inside the 21st-century British criminal underworld Related   Gangs of London (2020). A British crime drama in 9 episodes

A discussion of neoliberalism and the future of the global economy

Source: taxjustice.net

“ The international financial press has trotted out the usual boilerplate in its attempt to explain this instability, asserting that African countries cannot manage their own affairs and that Western institutions must swoop in to rescue them. Once again, as the refrain goes, it’s a question of the West’s benevolence in contrast to Africa’s violence and corruption.” “ Political crises in Africa are always an opportunity for Western capitalist economies to set the conditions for more free market measures, more free movement of capital, and more privatization.” “Every  new government finds itself with a list of policies that must be implemented in order to receive the benefit of the IMF, the World Bank, and bilateral aid.” “ The scene is the same no matter which government is in power. Even if a regime falls, the neocolonial extractive model doesn’t.” “Because they’re detached from the real needs of their populations, elites in Africa are facilitating this precarity and poverty and in...

The oldest political prisoner in Europe

Arms, aid and counter-revolution

After more than 55, the murder investigation is reopened because  a man who was a policeman at the time of the 1965 killing, alleges “ New York police and the FBI conspired in the murder.” ‘Justice’, the American way

  The military never conducted an independent investigation

“ Europe’s pathological fear of migrants complements the Polish government’s patriotic self-indulgence — all evident to cunning Lukashenko, clear-eyed enough to see their failings, and exploit them.” The hollowness of European humanitarianism

And the roots of the 2011 uprisings

Fuelling narcissists’ worst desires, making debate near impossible