Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Once again on the “clash of barbarisms” By Pierre Rousset and Francois Sabado (written after 13 November terrorist attack in Paris) There is a Western imperialist responsibility, as there was after the 1914-18 war (with the Treaty of Versailles) in the rise of Nazism in Germany. The antifascists of the time did not fail to recall it systematically. However, once it took off, the Nazi Party was denounced and combated as such. Daesh has taken off... We must continue to explain the context, but the Islamic State must be seen for  what it is , not as a mere shadow of the West. Contemporary imperialism, neo-liberal policies, capitalist globalization, enterprises of colonization, endless wars, are tearing the social fabric of a growing number of countries, releasing all sorts of barbarism. But religious fundamentalisms too are formidable agents of the disintegration of whole societies. There is not in fact a “major barbarism” (the West) that we should be fighting today and a “se

Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever

Israel is reborn into a monster — and no one is going to stop it "...the decline... is changing the nation and its values" (?) What were this nation's values before this killing? Were they less barbaric? Were there less-endorsed-killings by the apathetic majority whether within or outside Israel?

The five most important charts from the   Panama Papers leaks:   Britain operates as the world's biggest  launderer of hidden incomes.

"Panama Papers" are the tip of the ice-berg. One can just imagine the whole size of the ice-berg itself.  However, let's not be distracted. Let's be tolerant. This is part of our way of life that many oppose. Our immedite enemy is that immigrant next door, that Muslim refugee at the gate, that unemployed on benefits, that greedy British teacher or junior doctor on strike, that French worker on the street. We have tolerated the banks plunder, the wars and occupations, the actions of our allies. Let's focus on Putin, but tolerate the Russian oligarchs in our midst. Let's comdemn the Turkish authoritarian measures or the Chinese dictatoship for the public consumption or the Saudi theocracy, but do business with all of them. It is the best of all possible worlds. We are still a "democracy" and we are "civilised". After all, look at how others are killing each other or treating women. Their conditions are certainly unrelated to how the ci

" Islamic fundamentalism is a temporary, transitory movement, but it can last another 30 or 50 years -- I don’t know how long. Where fundamentalism isn’t in power it will continue to be an ideal, as long as the basic frustration and discontent persist that lead people to take extreme positions. You need long experience with clericalism to finally get fed up with it -- look how much time it took in Europe! Islamic fundamentalists will continue to dominate the period for a long time to come." – Maxime Rodinson on Islamic "Fundamentalism"  (in an interview in 1986)

The culturalization of social antagonisms Anti-Muslim Racism from Above and From Below The 'Taharrush' Connection: Xenophobia, Islamophobia,  and Sexual Violence in Germany and Beyond

Charlie Hebdo criticised for calling Brussels attacks tip of Islam 'iceberg' “Such categorization of an entire community as an insidious poison is a move we have seen before.” See also Charlie Hebdo is Sadism, not Satire Shlomo Sand: 'I am not Charlie' The Red Flag and the Tricolore Le Rouge et le Tricolore

Canada-Saudi Arabia: Once again, we see the triumph of profit

Trumpism without Trump I think Stratfor here underestimates "the syndrom". The cyclical crises of capitalism spawn or strenthen reactionary forces and afftecs social classes and strata in different ways. "The syndrom", history tells us, can be temporary, but it can also be a persistent mass movement.

A Photographic Journey Through One of India’s Largest Coal Mines

Bulgaria's vigilante migrant 'hunter' "Fear of migrants has become a powerful focal point for popular discontent about many unrelated problems, according to Haralan Alexandrov a social anthropologist at the New Bulgarian University, who says Bulgarians are no more or less xenophobic than any other Europeans. Corruption, poverty, disappointment with EU membership, Bulgaria's dysfunctional judicial system and the failure to reform it - all these make Bulgarians angry, he says. 'Instead of focusing your anger against the powerful judiciary, it's easier to attack the terrified refugees hiding in the weeds. You sense that something is wrong with the world and somebody must be blamed, so you choose the weaker target,' he explains. There is also historical trauma. Bulgaria was part of the Ottoman Empire for some 500 years until 1878, and nationalist propaganda has programmed Bulgarians to view every representative of the Islamic world as a potentia

The Nazi Who Became a Mossad Hitman

Frédéric Lordon against French labour reforms

laurence rossignol, la négresse musulmane et voilée que je suis vous emmerde

N for Muslim

Is finance fit for purpose?

Islamic Reformation?

" The rabble demonstrating and writing in support of the soldier-executioner in Hebron sees him as a hero. Not just a victim, like the convicted murderer Roman Zadorov, for example, but a hero. E.A. — his full name remains under a gag order — is a folk hero because he murdered a dying Palestinian. Because, not despite." More evidence that Israel is a racist terrorist state."

The main antagonism in society is a class one France labour protests