Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Written 6 years ago. Some of the things U.S. and its allies did or threatened to do to Iran

“Murder turned into an act of self-defense, in which the regime and international community embarked on a selfish battle of describing the crime using terms such as  civil war , the two-party war and the conflict. Consequently, the main crime was cleared, not by prescription, but because of its description.” Murder, and the burden of proof

“ A new Oxfam report finds that the richest 1 percent of people alone are responsible for  double the emissions  of the poorest 50 percent of the global population. That means that even if the working class of the Global North took all the individual actions that are recommended or we forced poor people in the Global South to stop having kids, that still wouldn’t solve the problem.” The class aspect

Keep clapping. A corrupt incompetent regime insults health workers with a 1% pay rise Related A nurse fined £10,000 for protesting

  Gaddafi’s Libya Has Never Existed

  Some of the ‘disappeared’ women in Syria

From a magazine that supported the invasion of Iraq, supported Israel —and probably still does—and it is now ‘baptised’ as ‘progressive’. The question remains: it is not about individuals—individualising regimes is a prevalent narrative—but about an imperialist state that strives to maintain its hegemony through violence—among other means— in a changing world. In this particular case, I can do it and get away with it. An ally of mine, Israel, can do it and get away with it. New President, Same Old Forever War