Thursday, 22 June 2023 — Institute of Race Relations
As we mark Refugee Week, we applaud all those who have taken to the streets to ensure that criticisms of the EU and Greece for creating the conditions for the worst shipwreck in recent Mediterranean history are not staved off by authorities in Greece who have announced three days of national mourning and sought to pin the blame on traffickers, making several arrests amongst the survivors. At least 78 people drowned after an overcrowded trawler capsized off the southern Peloponnese, with the death toll likely to be far higher – 500 people are believed still missing, and so far there have been no women and children, who were all held in the hold, the most dangerous part of the vessel, amongst the survivors. We should particularly salute the investigations team at We Are Solomon and volunteers from Alarm Phone who have worked day and night to create a timeline of events which points to a failure of the authorities to render assistance after multiple distress calls, as well as concerns about the treatment of survivors.
Leon Golub (USA), Vietnam II, 1973.
From lobbying for fighter jets to supplying depleted uranium, the UK is making sure escalation is the only way forward
A scene like something out of a third-rate mafia movie: producer, screenwriter and director (left) leaves this Orthodox church in Kyiv with his leading actor (right)—neither is Orthodox—taking leisurely steps, while sirens wail warning of an imminent Russian bombing. Although Moscow was briefed by Washington before this visit to avoid a dangerous incident, 
The New Dark Age 
