أوكرانيا على مذبح المعسكريَن أوقفوا هذه الحرب!

Ukraine on the Altar of the Two Camps: Stop This War!

Bidayat

The Cold War ended by dissolving one alliance and enlarging the other, but Russian aggression remains aggression — and Ukrainians are paying the price. Stop this war.

ما هي النيوليبرالية؟

What Is Neoliberalism?

Bidayat

Neoliberalism is a comprehensive ideology that governs our lives without being named, presenting itself as a natural, inevitable doctrine, while being the economic face of new American imperialism and responsible for major crises.

ماركس غسان الرفاعي – هل العودة الى النص الاصلي تجديد أم تجميد؟

Ghassan al-Rifai's Marx - Is Returning to the Original Text Renewal or Freezing?

Bidayat

Return to Marx as fundamentalism: if the text were timeless it wouldn't need 150 years of interpreters — and the Soviet experience was dictatorship, not "underdeveloped democracy."

تمرين في الترجمة

An Exercise in Translation

As-Safir

How are globalization's terms like transparency and transitional justice translated in the Arab world to become a cover for plundering wealth and exempting ruling families from accountability?

في التوزيع العادل للأمل

On the Fair Distribution of Hope

As-Safir

The state produces "social death," identities pull backward into fear — then Tunisia erupts: "employment, employment" is the literal demand for redistributing hope.

الففر والنيوليبرالية والإحسان

Poverty, Neoliberalism, and Charity

As-Safir

Heaven for the poor — no share of this world? Charity preserves hierarchy while taxes universalize. The poor's share remains growing poverty.

أسواق وجدران وأبراج

Markets, Walls, and Towers

As-Safir

The Berlin Wall fell and the world's biggest wall-building workshop opened—Israel's "devouring wall" steals land while segregating, and the Burj Khalifa is globalization's Babel.

Interview on Noam Chomsky

LBC

Fawwaz Traboulsi reviews Noam Chomsky's dual significance as a linguist and critical thinker who exposes mechanisms of power, applying his approach to contemporary Lebanese and Arab issues, warning against the nation's transformation into client states due to the criminal use of oil.

تأميم الخسائر وتخصيص الارباح

Nationalizing Losses and Privatizing Profits

As-Safir

Samir Amin: what's happening is "nationalizing losses and privatizing profits"—the state rescues the rich and charges the poor. Resisting starts with inverting the equation.

Ethnonationalism and the Failed State: Sources of Civil State Fragmentation in the International Political Economy

Ethnonationalist conflicts stem not from ancient hatreds, but from modern state failures that rationally drive individuals towards ethnic and religious identities.

AHDR: a critique

300 books translated per year is an unreliable figure—and culture is used to mask neoliberal agendas: unemployment cannot be solved by translation but by productive economies. The Alexandria Charter is a shopping list, not a roadmap.

The Lebanese System Revisited

The Lebanese system was "globalized before globalization"—it was not coexistence that produced prosperity but economic expansion, and when it was unevenly distributed, war followed. The alternative: "Security by providing bread for everybody."