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Dr. Immanuel Ness: “Imperialist wars benefit big capitalists in the most affluent states”

Dr. Immanuel Ness. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: In your very interesting book: Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain, you argue that global capitalism is a precarious system. Can you explain why? Dr. Immanuel Ness: The global economy...

Dr. Burkhard Luber: “We are already beyond the point of no return what the destruction of the Earth is concerned”

Dr. Burkhard Luber. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: How do you explain the rise of the far right in Europe and elsewhere in the world? Dr. Burkhard Luber: I see three explanations: A first explanation is that many people are not capable to accept that in the...

Laura Nolan: “Military technology is often adopted later for civilian use”

Laura Nolan. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: You are a brilliant computer engineer and have been recruited from Google where you worked on the Maven project. What can you tell us about this Maven project that links Google to the Pentagon? Laura Nolan: I didn’t...

Liz Rowley: “The progressive and peace-loving peoples of the world need to unite to defeat capitalism and imperialism”

Liz Rowley, leader of the Communist Party of Canada. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: How do you analyze the results of the recent federal elections in Canada? Did the Communist Party of Canada achieve good results? Liz Rowley: The election results - a minority...

Dr. Sylvie Thénault: “I still have a lot of difficulty in admitting the idea that many French people did not know what was happening in Algeria during the war”

Dr. Sylvie Thénault. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Your academic career, whether it is your master's degree, your doctoral thesis or your accreditation as a researcher, is focused on Algeria's war of independence. Where does your interest in the history of...

Prof. Abderrahmane Mebtoul: “The widespread financial scandals affecting most sectors of national activity threaten the foundations of the Algerian State.”

Professor A. Mebtoul. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: How do you read the current economic situation in Algeria? Prof. A. Mebtoul: To understand the economic situation, it is interesting to refer to the annual ranking of The Global Competitiveness Report, of...

Dr. Kerry Bowman: “Environment degradation and climate change may well turn out to be the most violent and destructive aspect of capitalism”

Dr. Kerry Bowman. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Who do you think is responsible for the forest fires that are occurring in the Amazon? Don't you think that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is directly or indirectly responsible for the fires in the Amazon...

Daniel McAdams: “The US has ceased being a republic and has become a national security state”

Daniel McAdams. DR. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Your Twitter account has just been closed. Why? Daniel McAdams: In August I was watching a segment of the Sean Hannity program while at a friend’s house and noticed that despite an hour of Hannity ranting against...

Prof. Richard Wolff: “Socialism represents the critical demand to extend democracy into the economic sphere”

Mohsen Abdelmoumen: You have done a very important work throughout these years and you wrote among other things this remarkable book New Departures in Marxian Theory that you co-signed with your colleague Stephen Resnick. In your opinion, is there not...

Dr. Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck: “Algerians took up to the street on February 22 because they were fed up with the system”

Dr. Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck (photo Juan Luis Rod) Mohsen Abdelmoumen: You have worked on issues related to terrorism, including in the field. In your opinion, can we fight terrorism without fighting the ideology that generates it? Dr. Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck:...