Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Lebanon Good news for feminism! Lebanon is on the right track in "emancipating" women, following the "Western values" of "liberated women" and " our way of life"

Behind Trump's trade war The AI arms race Unfortunately, you need a subscription to read this FT article.

Along with two criminals,  Aung San Suu Kyi, Barack Obama and others, Mother Theresa was also a nobel prize winner. The BBC has just revealed that Mother Theresa charity in India has been selling babies . But after all these years, the Corporation has still not questioned the mission of the woman/the saint. After all, it is about showing that someone, somewhere in the "Third World" is doing something for the poor. That makes the "West" feel good about itself.

Free ebook Violent Borders - Refugees and the Right to Move

First of all, there's Shell, a company you will be familiar with.   This week they're holding an annual "green-washing" event in London to try and persuade the public it cares about our future. But Shell doesn't really care, and thanks to their unfair employment policies, near 200,000 contract workers at Shell have no future, as they work in temporary, insecure jobs.  Contract workers outnumber permanent workers more than two to one at Shell, and as the company freely admits, do the most dangerous jobs.  We've been asked by IndustriALL global union to pressure Shell to limit precarious work and protect precarious workers' rights; to respect commitments to international standards on the environment, communities and human rights; and to apply the same health and safety standards at operations everywhere, including suppliers.   Please support this important campaign here . Second, we have a somewhat more unusual campaign.  Norway is historically known as o

"In common with their German, French and Italian counterparts, the Social Democrats are now struggling and are on course for their worst result for more than a century (a recent YouGov poll put them on just 22 per cent." "Keep Sweden Swedish ... Muslims are not fully human."

"Today, the Economics departments that actually take Marx seriously are limited to a handful in the US (e.g. at  UMass Amherst  and  The New School ), the UK (e.g. at  SOAS ), India (e.g. at  JNU ), Brazil, China, and in a few other countries scattered across the globe. Because of the Economics discipline’s lack of openness to alternative ways of thinking about Economics, studies by scholars from these departments will rarely make it into mainstream journals and students from these departments." Marx's birthday and the dismal science

"Her credibility as substitute leader derives from the self-generated myth that she is a humane, skilled opponent of the racist, nationalist Right.  Yet Merkel, though you would hardly know it from the reporting, is one of the major architects of Europe's racist backlash against migrants and Muslims. She is not so much the anti-Trump as, in her way, the condition for all Trumps." Merking

"Obama sang the praises of American multiculturalism but deported more undocumented immigrants than any previous president. Now Trump has stripped Obama’s policy of its already threadbare human face." "American carnage"

The Dream of the Red Mansions (You need a free subscription to read this review)

"Business is business" "Pubs charging more during England games," says the BBC. Prices at London hotels more than doubled after London bombing  It's all goood for business! Court ruled seeling weapons to Saudi Arabia during Yemen war was lawful! It saves British jobs!

I like Losurdo's answers on the subject of liberalism, but also his criticism of some aspects of Marxism. An interview with Domenico Losurdo

UK Good news! A quarter of estate agents are in "financial distress" . They are parasites anyway. Using David Graeber's description, I think they are "bullshit jobs" too.