Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

The claim was  global expansion and harmonious development of the productive forces and resources of the world .  The 2008-09 crisis, the Arab uprisings and social movements in the West itself, wars and civil wars, migration, fall in living standards for many people, environmental degradation, rise of neofascism and more racism, increase in inequality and corruption, the handling of the pandemic and vaccine apartheid … has exposed what ‘globalisation’ has really meant.

A short story by Zakaria Tamer

A short story by Zakaria Tamer

Since nudity is not a central topic in the film, as the writers state, why is the headline Nudity Overshadows Betrayal in ‘Huda’s Salon’ ? Nudity overshadows betrayal is in the Arab critics reviews of the film, not in the film itself.

“I see my granddaughters running away in panic,” Guterres said. “The war is an absurdity in the 21st century. The war is evil. There is no way a war can be acceptable in the 21st century.” One wonders what subject(s) Antonio Guterres studied at university. Political economy, security, war studies, international relations? None of  these subjects describes war as an absurdity. In fact, he was a student in engineering and telecommunications, not in the humanities. Apparently, the Portuguese Socialist Party never educated him in the subject of war or political economy. Leaving aside that UN secretary general is fundamentally wrong about what war is, has he ever said that what has happened in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Ethiopia, for instance, are ‘absurdities’ in the 21st century? Isn’t he another Westerner shocked by a war in a ‘civilised’ country/region using different measurements and criteria?

The French who voted for Macron and those before him, who dined, wined, and had a laugh with Egypt’s dictators from Mubarak to Sisi, did they have the complicity of the people they voted for and their own in mind or only their salaries, the cost of living and similar issues? Eyewitness: journalist and activist Solafa Magdy

Contrary to what the headline states, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, South Korea and India are not competing for supremacy. They are subordinate states to the U.S. The latter has ‘supremacy’. And because the U.S. cannot control everything everywhere, forges alliances with subordinate states to protect the flow and accumulation of capital.  ‘The countries competing for supremacy’