Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

UK and Egypt J. is only following a British tradition 

Sheikh Imam mocked all of them—from the one who paid lip service to "socialism" to the most venerated Arab singer.

The End of Fukuyama and the Last Book

Teachers' strike enters its third week

Labour and the Green New Deal Related: The Green New Deal: a critique

According to Blue Sky, Egypt was expecting 100,000 tourists via Thomas Cook in 2020. But the first travel company in the world has just collapsed. The Egyptian tourist industry is dominated by those corrupt pro-regime tycoons.  The main loosers though will be Egyptian workers. Thomas Cook workers at least have a welfare state to rely on. 

"Down with Sisi"

Only a rational economy can stop the devastation of nature An economy that abolishes the private ownership of the means of producing wealth and finance, and combines democratic production, distribution and consumption.

Imperialist designs "What I think I will do," he [Roosevelt] told Morgenthau, "is this. First, I would Palestine a religious country. Then I would leave Jerusalem the way it is and have it run by the Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, the Protestants, and the Jews—have a joint committee run it...I actually would put a barbed wire around Palestine...I would provide land for the Arabs in some other part of the Middle East... Each time we move out an Arab we would bring in another Jewish family... But I don't want to bring in more than they can economically support... Naturally, if there are 90 per cent Jews, the Jews would dominate ..." Sources of the quote James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1940-1945) Jay Winik, 1944: FDR and the Year That Chnaged History

"While official anti-corruption campaigns are at best a PR exercise, the opposition’s drive to weed out corruption rests on the idea that corruption is an incidental addition to the system, which could be made to function more fairly and rationally without it. Yet this is to mistake a feature for a glitch: the orgies of illicit enrichment Navalny and others rightly attack are not simply a product of the personal greed of Putin’s colleagues, they are part of the system’s very architecture. Far from being an extraneous or incidental aspect of contemporary Russian capitalism, corruption has been built into it from the outset." Russia's appointed billionaires