Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Forms and Sources of Inequality in the United States

Dear Media: Radovan Karadžić is a European Christian

" In truth, the Libyan intervention was about regime change from the very start.  The threat posed by the Libyan regime’s military and paramilitary forces to civilian-populated areas was diminished by NATO airstrikes and rebel ground movements within the first 10 days. Afterward, NATO began providing direct close-air support for advancing rebel forces by attacking government troops that were actually in  retreat  and had abandoned their vehicles. Fittingly, on Oct. 20, 2011, it was a U.S. Predator drone and French fighter aircraft that  attacked  a convoy of regime loyalists trying to flee Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte. The dictator was injured in the attack, captured alive, and then extrajudicially  murdered  by rebel forces. The intervention in Libya shows that the slippery slope of allegedly limited interventions is most steep when there’s a significant gap between what policymakers say their objectives are and the orders they issue for the battlefield. Unfortunately, duplicity

 "Hungaru head towards a general strike..." "... Neoliberalism, which has characterized much of the left-centre Hungarian opposition’s rhetoric, is not a winning ticket in Hungary. The second half of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s second, consecutive term in office may be significantly more difficult for him than the first."

"Molenbeek's Ganster Jihadists" " Certainly, many of those who joined IS from the area did not come from particularly religious backgrounds. There is certainly a sense of disaffection among many in Molenbeek. I spent an evening on a street corner talking to one young Muslim man who had been accused of attempting to travel to Syria.  He alternated between fixing me with an intense stare, and refusing to make any eye contact - exuding an air of slight volatility. Initially when I told him I wanted to understand why someone would commit an attack like the one in Paris - he told me I should travel to Raqqa, and ask people there. For him Western air strikes against IS were the answer.  But then he changed his mind. It was the fault of domestic conditions. He railed against the Belgian government - against white Belgians, who hated those of Arab descent, he said. And he would repeat "there is no democracy here" - a feeling that you can't express any

The endless war of who gets what [Note: there is some inaccurate figures on the South Korean War and the massacre]

Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse Related Al-Azm on the Syrian uprising