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Statewatch News 5 August 2022 Issue 13/22
Friday, 5 August 2022 — Statewatch News (Issue 13/22, also available as a PDF) Welcome to the latest edition of Statewatch News, featuring: Frontex: covert interrogations at the Spanish border with no legal guarantees EU criminal records database access extended for migrant ‘screening’ In-depth research to keep you informed Continue reading
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Statewatch News 7 May 2021
7 May 2021 — Statewatch News (Issue 09/21, also available as a PDF) Support our work —————————————- EU: Detention at the borders to increase “voluntary” removals As part of its ongoing drive to increase the removal of migrants from EU territory, the European Commission unveiled a new strategy on “voluntary” return and reintegration at the end of Continue reading
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New Plan for Immigration is same old Hostile Environment
At the end of March, the Home Office launched its consultation about the New Plan for Immigration. The consultation questionnaire has 45 questions – some are multiple-choice and some are open questions. But all of them are framed in such a way that it is almost impossible to answer any of them in a meaningful way.… Continue reading
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Join us for Solidarity Knows No Borders Webinar #3
We are excited to announce the third event in our #SolidarityKnowsNoBorders webinar series THIS Thursday 25th of March at 6pm – Cases into Causes, Causes into a Movement: How Can Individual Campaigns Lead to Collective Justice? Make sure you register on Zoom to join now! Continue reading
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Webinar: Walls Must Fall: Ending the deadly politics of border militarisation (TNI)
COVID-19 has become another touchstone for today’s deeply entrenched politics of militarised borders and anti-migrant racism. Leaders like Trump and Orban have blamed the virus on foreigners and to claim justification for their racist politics. But they have also been used European Union Member States of all political tendencies have used the crisis to close… Continue reading
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Video: The Censored Reality Of The Refugee Crisis
Today, 60 million human beings are displaced from war and extreme poverty. Many European countries are responding to the crisis with racist hysteria, policing and police state measures. Continue reading
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Israeli leaders delight in Europe’s cruelty toward refugees By Rania Khalek
As most of the world looks on in horror at Europe’s atrocious response to refugees escaping war and persecution in the Middle East and Africa, some Israeli officials are quietly reveling in the chaos. Continue reading
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Freedom Rider: Refugees Flee American Aggression By Margaret Kimberley
Americans are made uncomfortable by pictures of drowned refugee children, but most cannot accept that their own government’s “unrelenting effort at regime change in Syria is the cause of this crisis.” U.S. corporate media parrot Washington’s lies, keeping tally of the displaced and doomed, but blaming Syria’s government for defending itself against western-backed jihadists. Rather… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 7 September 2015 (21/15): ‘We are Ashamed’
MEPs should show leadership in this crisis by insisting that the other EU institutions develop an effective humanitarian protection policy on arrival for refugees, and create EU-wide legal channels to be open to migrants (the initiatives are so far limited to the highly skilled and seasonal migrants), by the end of the year. If they… Continue reading
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Dead children By Richard Seymour
Why are they washing up on the shores? European governments want us to blame traffickers. The advantage of blaming traffickers is that it actually licenses those governments to implement even more repressive measures. But traffickers are only out to make a quick buck off the system that European governments have created. Continue reading
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Why the Refugee Crisis? By Stephen Lendman
Endless US direct and proxy wars force desperate people to seek safety out of harm’s way. Numbers fleeing war and destabilized areas are greater than any time since WWII – increasing exponentially as conflicts and chaos rage in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Donbass, Somalia, South Sudan, and elsewhere. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 29 May 2015 (13/15): News: Med crisis and EU response
29 May 2015 — Statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean New Key Documents 1. European External Action Service (EEAS): Military Advice: RESTRICTED doc no: 8802-15 2. Political and Security Committee: PMG Recommendations on the draft Crisis Management 3.Draft Crisis Management Concept for a possible CSDP operation to disrupt human smuggling networks in Continue reading
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Immigration in the Time of Imperialism By Gaither Stewart
The lids between deck and dark airless hold are bolted shut. The 45 lifeless bodies are neatly stacked in the hold one atop the other. Silence reigns down in the torrid darkness. The lifeless bodies are all young males. From Central Africa. No signs of mass panic among them. No blood anywhere. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 