Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Happy birthday, Karl Marx In Opinion section on the New York Times By a professor at a South Korean university

"But this week was also the week that Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of China’s Alibaba and a high-tech icon on par with Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, visited Israel. On Friday, the first leg of the Giro d’Italia bicycle race begins in Jerusalem (carefully skirting east Jerusalem). There were at least three major cross-border mergers and acquisition deals this week involving Israeli companies totaling a billion-plus dollars." On the recently-discovered Israel's "bad behaviour", "Western human rights", "Western democracies", business interests and other beautiful things

Ghani's statistics on armed groups show that most of them also involve cases of violence against women – and the Syrian government heads that list. Women are deliberately targeted, he says, because they always played an important role in the opposition against Assad. The regime sees torture and sexual abuse of women as a war strategy, Ghani argues. "Break the women and you break the family – and with it opposition in society. That's the goal." Syrian women in Assad's prisons

Against Charity

Liberal Totalitarianism

I listen and listen again. I hear this or that voice. I read sentences and behind the lines. I read arguments and counter-arguments. My impression is that Trump and his clique, and so far backed mostly by the Israeli regime, are building dossier and a creating a context for a war with Iran. It will be very interesting to watch, especially the position Putin's regime will take. Of course nothing is certain yet, but similar patterns lead to similar results. In the interim a few things could happen and  change the descent towards another madness: Trump might go before that, for example.

The Communist Manifesto as a graphic novel