Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

HRW:  the violence is part of a 'widespread and systematic pattern of attacks'

 Why I support the ban

 هل هي معاداة للحب أم معاداة للجنس كمحرم من المحرمات؟  أليس القمع الجنسي أداة من أدوات السلطتين السياسية والدينية في ديمومة العلاقات السلطوية في المجتمع الجزائري مثلا؟ ألا يتشابك القمع الجنسي  وتقنينه  بقمع الدولة؟  ألا يتشابك القمع الجنسي بتحريم نقد الدين؟ من سخرية الواقع أن كاتب المقال أو القدس العربي أو ربما كلاهما لا يملكان جرأة الكاتب والباحث السوري  بو علي ياسين قبل خمسين سنة.

The  set of attitudes, values, ways of knowing, and power structures upheld as normative by western colonizing societies and serving to rationalize and perpetuate western dominance:  The end of colonial administrations in the modern world was not the end of coloniality. — dictionary.com

The Internet is not your friend

“While French news corporations have been historically controlled by entrepreneurs in the luxury, defence and telecommunications sectors, they are now being bought by fossil capitalists and  Françafrique  investors. What explains this shift? For one thing, these sectors have experienced tremendous growth in recent years. The fact that the public considers them somewhat passé has not made them any less lucrative. Capitalists like Bolloré have compelling motives to engage in this struggle over public opinion. Since losing his parliamentary majority in 2022, the President has adopted an approach of strategic ambiguity towards the far right, alternately condemning and embracing its ideas.” Fossil media

John Gray is considered an English philosopher.  According to the British journalist Francis Wheen, Gray “has published dozens of increasingly apocalyptic books and articles on the need to end the Enlightenment project forthwith.” Excerpts from ‘ The West yearns for Putin to fall. But what happens if the Russian state collapses?’ The New Statesman, July 28-August 17, 2023 “The West yearns for Putin to fall. But what happens if the Russian state collapses? If Ukrainian forces nonetheless fail to break through Russian positions, a frozen conflict becomes a realistic outcome. Western support is nearing exhaustion. Deindustrialised societies cannot sustain a protracted conflict when Russia is operating as a fully fledged war economy. The West is staking its endgame on regime change. What if that has the same result as it did in Iraq and Libya?” In the Russian Civil War of 1917-1921 “ Western military intervention involving British and other foreign troops exacerbated the bloodshed. As man