Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

The  New Yorker  is wrong. Young people are attracted to Bernie Sanders because of economic insecurity, not naive idealism

Yugoslavia after Capitalist Restoration

  Headlines on foreignpolicy.com - U.S. firms are making billions selling spyware to dictators.   - In a world where 1 in 7 people are displaced, your kindness is just condescension.

 History Of The Yemen Clusterf*ck "That scenario was repeated all over the Middle East during the Cold War, and it has a lot to do with how messed up the place is now. “For Allah and the Emir”; when Time ran that  headline   in 1963, that slogan sounded quaint and kind of touching. . . . It sounded like a nice alternative to Nasser, nationalism (and its much more dangerous corollary, nationalization) or, worse yet, Communism. So the West put its weapons and its money in on the side of “Allah and the Emir” over and over again, against every single faction trying to make a modern, secular Arab world, whether on the Nasserite, Ba’athist, Socialist, Communist, or other model. "...  Of course, the Houthi, as Shia, worship the wrong version of Allah, from the Saudi perspective. But that didn’t bother the Saudis, or the Americans, or the British, or the Israelis, back in the 1960s when they all joined hands (in a very non-peace-and-love way) to wipe out the modernizing Yem

Red Neoliberals: How Corbyn’s Victory Unmasked Britain’s  Guardian

Business is business Britain is at centre of global mercenary industry, says charity

Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup that Remade the Middle East