Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

No surprise here. The same UK regime that is complicit in mass crime knights an Egyptian capitalist. The latest example of the intimate relations between the metropole bourgeoisie and the ‘comprador’ one . Colour, religion and nationality are irrelevant. Being part of a dictatorship, repression and oppression is also irrelevant.

The Intercept:  The Defense Department blew the deadline for a mandatory briefing to Congress on coups by U.S.-trained African military officers . Related The school of Latin America’s dictators The War on Democracy documentary

In the sixth economy in the world On minimum wage Neglected and exploited Foreign nurses

The treatment of Palestinian women, in particular the rapes and sexual aggression which they have endured since the beginning of the war on Gaza.

The BBC has began to filter less because the corporation cannot ignore what international organisation report. Albanese had been accused of ‘antisemitism’ in 2014. “Ms Albanese's choice of a title for it: 'Anatomy of a Genocide' was not exactly diplomatic. Many member states, especially those traditionally supportive of Israel, will be uncomfortable.  But UN special rapporteurs, while tasked by the UN to examine and advise on specific situations, are independent of it.  Genocide is a specific legal term, and Ms Albanese's report suggests some of the legal criteria have been fulfilled.  She cites what she says appears to be Israel's intention to destroy Palestinians as a group ‘in whole or in part’, a key clause in the Convention against Genocide. She mentions in particular three elements which point to possible genocide:  Killing members of the group Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of lif

“Bonapartism has reemerged stronger than before. In Macron it assumes a classic form. The right of the Rassemblement National and the left of La France insoumise (the ‘extremes’, in the parlance of the quality press) balance one another, while the radical centre – the  bourgeois bloc  anatomized by Serge Halimi – is free to pursue its own interests, while also claiming to protect the dignity of the nation, wider humanity and now the ecosphere itself. A remarkable political formula, as [Gaetano] Mosca would have put it.” A bonapartist solution