Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

نبيل الملحم: ما أن يلتقي جون كيري وسيرغي لافروف، حتى يتهامسان، لا ندري إذا ماكان همسهما، لعبة من تبادل الأطباق: - خذ طبقاً من الهوت دوغ، وهات طبقاً من الـ بلوف. ثم تكون المائدة. ولا ندري أية همسات مابين الأتراك والإيرانيين: - خذ الشاورما، وهات الـ "ديزي". والاثنان يُقسمان أنه اللحم الحلال.. ثم تكون المائدة. هي السياسة هكذا، نعم، وبهذا التبسيط، وكل من يعتقد بغير ذلك فهو أبله، أو مثقف (ما يعني أبلهاً أنيقاً). - أين الغرابة في كل ذلك حين نكون نحن هي الأطباق؟ الأطباق البشرية؟ ستقولون لي:"هي استحقاقات الجيوسياسة"، نعم، ومن قال بأنها غير أطباق من نوع ما؟ أطباق خطوط الغاز، مكامن النفط، صناديق المال، تبادل الزوجات، المعادن الثمينة، ولكل مائدة فقهاؤها، ولمزيد من العلم، فقد لعبت الكوكاكولا ماعجزت عنه ساحات القتال، وها نحن نضرم النيران والبخور من أجلها.. أعني من أجل الأطباق، ونتهامس كما يتهامسون: - طبقاً ديموقراطياً من الأمريكان، ثم نستشهد بما قدموه لنا في كابول، بغداد، القدس، وها نحن نأكله طازجاً في دمشق، نأكله لنأكل بعضنا بعضاً في مأدبة هي عسر هضم ا

I love the English and their way of life The other day someone, an English, was telling how marvellous the American soldiers were in treating dogs in Afghanistan. One Syrian Photographer's Last Letter to the World

Fuck you Zîzêk!

Faites qu'il s'en aille

The Battle of Chile

Keynes’ 1930s optimism gained credence with the boom during a major world war and the subsequent post-war Golden Age that restored the profitability of capital for a generation.  Let’s hope it does not take another world war to confirm the  optimism of the modern Keynesians like DeLong . The end of globalisation and the future of capitalism

A 9/11 Retrospective: Washington's 15-Year Air War The Coup in Chile: 11 September 1973

Capitalism " batters down all  Chinese walls ... In one word, it creates a world after its own image." " All that is  solid  melts into  air , all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life..." A prayer for Mecca — the city that many pilgrims don't see Also Mecca for the rich: Islam's holiest site 'turning into Vegas'

Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil Published in 2002, but ...

Civil War (?) An exaggeration, I think.

Britain's bourgeois democracy This Bunkered Island

"Why do we still use the term sub-Saharan Africa?

We should flatly refuse the situation to which the Western countries wish to condemn us. Colonialism and imperialism have not paid their score when they withdraw their flags and their police forces from our territories. For centuries the foreign capitalists have behaved in the under-developed world like nothing more than criminals.”  —Frantz Fanon “Imperialism after all is an act of geographical violence through which virtually every space in the world is explored, charted, and finally brought under control. For the native, the history of colonial servitude is inaugurated by loss of the locality to the outsider; its geographical identity must thereafter be searched for and somehow restored. Because of the presence of the colonizing outsider, the land is recoverable at first only through imagination.”  —Edward Said War on Want

Inside the Syrian Dust Bowl

Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt?

Note that the Washington Post here is not questioning corporate education and how the system is organised to reproduce the elite in the US and in other countries. It is only questioning/exposing the excesses, which shouldn't be exploited by Trump in a context of electoral campaigns. Good! The more they stink, the better.

As Sturgeon "launches a fresh call for a referendum on independence", here is a background analysis

How has Islamic orthodoxy changed over time?

180 million workers have gone on strike in India الهند: أكبر إضراب عمالي في التاريخ إضراب مماثل نظم السنة الماضية

Here is of the things the Liberals have done in the last 20 years. IMF chief,  Christine Lagarde, also blogged  that  “Weak global growth that interacts with rising inequality is feeding a political climate in which reforms stall and countries resort to inward-looking policies. In a broad cross-section of advanced economies, incomes for the top 10 percent increased by about 40 percent in the past 20 years, while growing only very modestly at the bottom. Inequality has also increased in many emerging economies, although the impact on the poor has sometimes been offset by strong general income growth” . And what is their solution now? More globalisation. Some of them even argue for the colonization of Mars . That is what we can call a global economy of priorities that serves humanity!