Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Changing the rules or changing the game?

Academic Waste

Why aren't the British middle-classes staging a revolution? An unusual article on The Telegraph on the ongoing plunder (" privatising the profits and socialising the losses).  Even Trotsky is quoted. It says something about the ruling class and what it fears: a section of the middle class sinks to the bottom. It fears cracks in the buffer.

British and Israeli assistance to U.S. Torture- and  Counter-insurgency strategies in Latin America  1963-1997

Amazon 'used neo-Nazi guards to keep immigrant workforce under control' in Germany

“Political Economy and Social Movement Theory Perspectives on the Tunisian and Egyptian Popular Uprisings of 2011”

Osama Bin Laden in a secret letter in 2009 "I  direct my talk specifically to those who support real change, especially the youth," it begins, before declaiming "the tyranny of the control of capital by large companies" that has evidently harmed the American economy."