Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

A book review.  The full text is subject to subscription, but what is available is enough I think to encourage us to explore the book.  Photography, War and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq

Anyone who has read Ellen Meiksins Wood’s The Origin of Capitalism (1999) should read this ‘discussion’ for update. Entering the neofeudal era

The ‘same’ headlines, attacks and vilifications uttered and published when I first arrived in England 20 years ago. The difference today is that white Ukrainians are welcome as it was with Polish labour. Johnson warns of the ‘healthy young men’ or ‘economic migrants’ who come here under false pretences, sometimes posing as minors, in place of the truly vulnerable.  Fables of migration

But most remain imprisoned or have disappeared

This book [ Genocide in Libya ] is not meant to be conclusive, but to bring out Libya and Libya’s brutal, genocidal colonial history. And to get rid of that common and really absurd way of thinking that goes “I don’t know anything about Libya, so I’m going to talk about tribalism, I’m going to talk about [Muammar] al-Qaddafi, about regionalism or religion.” Who doesn’t have regions? Who doesn’t have these social complexities? An interview with Ali Abdullatif Ahmida Related There was no a Nuremberg trials for Italian fascists

A review from 2020 by a Western-centric Marxist economist and blogger might help us understand the situation of today’s global economy. Review of Trade Wars Are Class Wars Part 1 Part 2

A book review There was no a Nuremberg trials for Italian fascists