Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

 “This Land is Your Land”

 The IMF smokescreen

“I’m never going to blend in.” We are not comfortable talking about certain things. Same here, Nadiya. If you as a celebrity is unable to blend in, what about me? Twenty years and I have not been accepted and decided not to try to blend in, for if you want to be accepted, you must go with the stream, accept the status quo, be polite and don’t talk about subjects that make the other feel uncomfortable or upset, don’t express your radical views, don’t judge people, talk about the banalities and the mundane, don’t try to attack prejudices because people don’t want to appear ignorant or intolerant. Nadiya Hussain

 Despite a US-backed coup Morales’ ally set for win They will try other methods in future, including sabotage, sanctions, etc. Related The US-backed coup in Bolivia was based on lies Bolivia’s coup

 When you own a country, you do with its wealth whatever you want while your brothers and sisters (Arabs and Muslims) from Lebanon’s “failed state” to Syrian refugees are suffering. You also stretch your arms to help reshape the geo-strategical board of the MENA region. You get support from the heart of “free market democracies” interested in selling you properties and weapons, and they protect you. An Arab revolution that does not spread to overthrow those rotten pigs and employ the Gulf resources for the majority of Arabs, cannot be called a revolution. Sheikh Khalifa’s £5bn London property empire

“ Party members were from all ethnicities and religious sects of Syria, making it likely the most diverse among leftist parties in the country. Women also had a significant and, in later years, growing presence in the ranks of the LCP [Labour Communist Party] though were largely absent from leadership positions (p.191). Alongside the initial involvement of women in the first steps of the party through “Marxist Circles”, or collective political groups, they played an increasingly important role throughout different periods of the party. Female members also suffered from the multiple campaigns of arrests by the security services, especially at the end of the 1980s as their numbers and participation in the party increased. As Shabo writes, the significant numbers of women in the LCP and their activism made the party clearly distinct from other leftist and communist groups, where women’s roles were comparatively less prominent.” Syria’s Labour Communist Party

  Man can drop part of name denoting slave ancestry