Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Statues Quo

Percent change in U.S. real wages by income percentile, 2007-2014

The End of Progressive Hegemony and the Regressive Turn in Latin America: The End of a Cycle?

" The former  Spitting Image  writer  John O’Farrell  says he adheres to the time-honoured maxim that the comic should always be “punching up”, not down. Laughing at the weak is never funny, and there is nobody weaker than a dead child washed up on a beach. As for the second rule, O’Farrell recalls David Attenborough’s advice to the Monty Python team: “Use shock sparingly.” And perhaps there is a third. If you’re aiming a lethal arrow, be sure to shoot straight at the target. Because if you miss, you might not hurt your enemy: you might just help him instead." Jonathan Freedland, the Guardian , 15 January 2016

What Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ can teach us

Hadi al-`Alawi, Scion of the Two Civilizations

Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia As usual the Western powers will turn a blind eye on this. Not only because the Saudi Kingdom is their close friend, but because they themselves are major abusers of "human rights".