Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Although there is some hint to a historical background , role of the structure of the authoritarian regimes and women employment – the latter being probably the lowest in the world in the MENA region – and how they reinforce violence are excluded from the equation.

Transforming university students from intellectual participants into end users, who are anxious only to get the most value for their money

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‘ The decaying American empire ’ argument is disputable. The comparison with the collapse of the Soviet Union misses the different economic structures of the two countries. The US economic power has not been experiencing a long term stagnation, for example.  Actually, the argument should be the way around: in 1980s there was no ‘whip of external necessity’ compelling the US to outcompete the Soviet Union. The latter was not an economic threat to the US. Today China is the ‘external whip’ but to an already more powerful American economy – a dynamic one in terms of capital-intensive industries, productivity and an array of industrially-advanced allies and subordinates.

Available in 4 languages What and who enable Israel to carry on with killing and destruction Prospects for Israel’s war economy

“It operates like a food chain: the French at the top, followed by North Africans who run  the subcontracting companies, and at the bottom, the exploited workers .”

A list of demands by students has been circulated in an underground press release. Shahidul Alam puts the demands in a broader context and assess their validity and effectiveness.

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On the murder of children

    وعودة الإبادة إلى الاعتياد

  'Justice?' The colonel was astounded. 'What is justice?' 'Justice, sir –' 'That's not what justice is,' the colonel jeered, and began pounding the table again with his big fat hand. 'That's what Karl Marx is. I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning. Garrotting. That's what justice is when we've all got to be tough enough and rough enough to fight Billy Perolle. From the hip. Get it? —Joseph Heller,  Catch-22

According to US liberals,   Trump's imperialism is ugly, whereas Biden's is 'kinder and gentler' with moral authority.

My introduction: To understand the crisis of the National Health Service, the bad handling of the pandemic*, stagnant economy, weak productivity, a state struggling to invest adequately in the green economy, inability to build enough and affordable houses, expensive rent, decades of poor investment in infrastructure by OECD measures, consumption, and consumerism, driven by debt, Labour/Conservatives capitalist values, one has to look at the economic model of the British economy. In reviewing Brett Christophers’s work, Cédric Durant has provided a good overview of such an economic model of accumulation and its ramifications as well as some criticism of Christophers’s take on capitalism in general and what might replace it. ——— *I doubt it that the recently publish report will ever mention the economic model pursued by Britain for more than four decades and how it played a major role in the infrastructure of health and the well-being of the Brits. ***** Few today will need convincing th

“ Tariq, explain to me how the neck negotiates with the sword.”

Dozens of Indian workers freed from 'slavery' in Italy Related “Italy’s Sikh Slaves” Italy’s Migrant Boot Camp Raped, beaten, exploited Migrant workers in Spain

A bipartisan sampling of the world’s greatest perpetrators and enablers of political violence has rushed to condemn political violence following the   shooting attempt   on former President Donald Trump To say that “political violence” has “no place” in a society organized by political violence at home and abroad is to acquiesce to the normalization of that violence, so long as it is state and capitalist monopolized.

So long as we persist in our tendency to hive off the study of economics from politics, philosophy and journalism, Marx will remain the outstanding example of how to overcome the fragmentation of modern social thought and think about the world as a whole for the sake of its betterment. — Mark Mazower, FT, 05 August 2016

“Given that each of the three forces has roughly two-thirds or more of the electorate who did not choose them, and each of them has thus been rejected by a majority of French voters, the message from the people is clear: we do not want to be governed by any of you. We do not want any of you in power, at least not solely.  The far right will thus not suffer, but on the contrary - it will benefit from the mess, political chaos and possible institutional deadlock that lies ahead, along with the potential policy failures of those who govern.” Yes, Alain Gabon. However, the article ignores French capitalism and imperialism and the French security state and provides a ‘nationalist’ domestic analysis, ignoring geopolitics and inter-societal determinants. 

Another nationalist analysis: the UK as an island. No imperialism, no gaza and Israel, no Ukraine, no nature, no climate change … After the rituals, comes reality

Being on the left means thinking of the world first, then of one’s country, then of ones’ relatives, then of oneself; being on the right means the opposite. Être de gauche c’est d’abord penser le monde, puis son pays, puis ses proches, puis soi ; être de droite c’est l’inverse. —Gilles Deleuze