Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Archival and ethnographic interventions on Lebanon

I think Dabashi should have included a couple of lines about the geopolitical and American imperialism’s objectives of the invasion and destruction of the Iraqi state. How the US media covers up war crimes

Actors and composers of a dangerous tune

An authoritarian state security apparatus inherited from the British

“ This is the first time that China has officially brokered an international accord , and also its first involvement in the Middle East: the US has dominated this area of strategic importance for more than 70 years, despite its pivot to Asia at the start of the century. China’s success is partly due to favourable circumstances: Riyadh’s desire to assert its independence from Washington (especially after the US was slow to come to the rescue after terrorist attacks on its oil installations in 2019); and Iran’s concerns over its economic crisis as well as anti-government protests and threats of Israeli attacks on its nuclear facilities.  There is also the growing tendency of countries of the global South not to follow the West’s lead. This diplomatic initiative was driven by the need for hydrocarbons. Saudi Arabia became China’s leading supplier of oil; Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) also began supplying natural gas and oil. Between 2002 and 2022, China’s foreign direct inv...

Borders ensure that poor people will never have the same freedom of movement as corporate capital. Rape as weapon Related The Darién Gap

Sovereign Africa?

Surprise! Surprise! Rejecting apartheid label for economic, security and technological ties Related Keir Starmer’s complicity in oppression at home and abroad تم تخصيص جزءً صغيراً في المقال الآتي للإجابة على سبب تأييد بريطانيا الفصل العنصري

The Apocalypse and the End of History and An interview with the author

Another of the BBC’s failures I would say. 20 years on and the Corporation feels it must repeat a lie. The intelligence argument is an argument that reinforces the belief among many that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. The BBC is actually reinforces a lie. It is an argument to justify past and present British involvements in wars and conflicts: “our intention has always been the intention of a good player that supports ‘democracy’ and ‘freedoms’ all over the world.” Removing geopolitics, the political economy and American hegemony and ‘imperial’ functioning , help provide a narrow picture that reinforces the belief in the government and the ideology behind  interventions, ‘regime change’, aid, etc. The fact is that Britain is a junior player and has material and geopolitical interests with the US, the decisive power. A criminal needs an alibi . That is what happened prior the invasion of Iraq. Previous criminal actions also required alibis. Think of British support of Saddam i...

Contemporary transformations in ownership and control

Unlike Putin, in the current global power relations they are not considered war criminals because they belong to the ‘democratic, free world’. “The men and women who launched this catastrophic, criminal war have paid no price over the past two decades. On the contrary, they’ve been showered with promotions and cash. There are two ways to look at this. The following list doesn’t include anything about the Iraqis who’ve died since 2003. Partly, this is because it’s traditional for the U.S. media to pay no attention to the lives of foreigners.” For context one should read Howard Zinn Peter Gowan Ellen Meiksins Wood David Keen Andrew Bacevich

The United States, Russia and China, from Kosovo to Ukraine There is a preview here

Deadly sea crossing to Europe

“In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of Socialism as the belief that Russia is a Socialist country.” —George Orwell, Preface to the Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm George Orwell

Rethinking the absurd

What more does it need for the French government to react and correct its indulgence, or rather its complicity, with Israel? The president’s policy follows the same line as that of François Hollande who lamented, in the presence of Netanyahu, that he could not sing aloud “all his love for Israel and for its leaders”, asks Alain Gresh. Friends in state terror  – a very liberal article that does not put Macron’s action as part of French imperialist actions and interests. There is no geopolitics and no political economy. French imperialism in the Sahel. French imperialism and the Egyptian regime. French imperialism in support of General Haftar. France’s war in Yemen. French capital in Africa and elsewhere.

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An excerpt from Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution

After exposing the myth of ‘private sector is good, public sector is bad’, Mazzucato – with Rosie Collington – takes on the big con of the management and consultancy business .