Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

‘British troops to help at Poland-Belarus border’ ‘Polish forces tear-gas migrants at Belarus border’ ‘Poland to build border wall to stop migrant influx’ ‘Freezing to death on the edge of the EU’ The sad fact is that we have become immune to the suffering of other people unless they are pets or useful material. After all, they are not white Belarusians fleeing ‘the last dictatorship in Europe’.

The forgotten Arab Republicans

“ The National Crime Agency has estimated that £90bn of criminal money is being laundered through the UK every year, 4% of the country’s GDP. London has become the global capital of money-laundering and the beating heart of European organised crime. English is now the international underworld’s lingua franca. Crime is an essential part of the British economy, providing hundreds of thousands of jobs, not just for professional criminals – the NCA reckons there are  4,629 organised crime groups  in operation – but for police and prison officers, lawyers and court officials, and a security business that now employs more than half a million people.” Inside the 21st-century British criminal underworld Related   Gangs of London (2020). A British crime drama in 9 episodes

A discussion of neoliberalism and the future of the global economy

Source: taxjustice.net

“ The international financial press has trotted out the usual boilerplate in its attempt to explain this instability, asserting that African countries cannot manage their own affairs and that Western institutions must swoop in to rescue them. Once again, as the refrain goes, it’s a question of the West’s benevolence in contrast to Africa’s violence and corruption.” “  Political crises in Africa are always an opportunity for Western capitalist economies to set the conditions for more free market measures, more free movement of capital, and more privatization.” “Every  new government finds itself with a list of policies that must be implemented in order to receive the benefit of the IMF, the World Bank, and bilateral aid.” “ The scene is the same no matter which government is in power. Even if a regime falls, the neocolonial extractive model doesn’t.” “Because they’re detached from the real needs of their populations, elites in Africa are facilitating this precarity and poverty and incre

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