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Trump at the Rubicon
US President Donald Trump visited the southern border of the United States on Thursday, where he continued to peddle his lying claims that the country is in the jaws of a crisis caused by criminals and drugs flowing in from Mexico. Continue reading
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One sixth of world’s people want to flee their home countries
The world is pulsing with hundreds of millions of people desperate to flee their homes under the weight of the crisis of world capitalism. According to a recent Gallup study, a sixth of the world’s adult population—some 750 million people, not including children—want to flee their home countries to escape war, poverty, conflict and disease. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 November 2018 (17/18)
26 November 2018 — Statewatch ANALYSES 1. Analysis: Decriminalising solidarity by promoting the regularisation of migrants by Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo (Osservatorio Solidarieta Carta di Milano 2. Viewpoint: Morocco: Wherever EU immigration policy rears its ugly head, violence and abuses follow by Yasha Maccanico Continue reading
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What the Stansted 15 Tells Us About Law and Order in Britain
By TruePublica: Back in September, three environmental activists were the first people in Britain since 1932 to receive jail sentences for non-violent anti-fracking protest in the UK. An appeal was lodged and public outrage caused a new judge to declare that the original ruling was ‘excessive”. This excessive use of the law is being used… Continue reading
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Key Fact Obscured in Immigration Coverage: MS-13 Was Made in US By Justin Anderson
In a piece for the Atlantic (6/20/18), former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum countered statements by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, in which Hayes described a harrowing first-person account of a mother forcibly separated from her child at the US/Mexico border as reading like “the literature of a totalitarian government”: Continue reading
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Big Tech’s war on refugees and immigrants
Across the world, companies like Microsoft and Salesforce are helping ICE and Frontex lead their war against immigrants and refugees. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #158 By William Blum: Why do they flee?
Those in the US generally opposed to immigration make it a point to declare or imply that the United States does not have any legal or moral obligation to take in these Latinos. This is not true. The United States does indeed have the obligation because many of the immigrants, in addition to fleeing from… Continue reading
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How Israel helped to revive Europe’s ugly ethnic nationalisms By Jonathan Cook
[P]aradoxically, the “western” state that most visibly bucked the trend towards civic nationalism in the post-war period was Israel. It stuck rigidly with a political model of ethnic nationalism that had just been discredited in Europe. Today Israel embodies a political alternative to civic nationalism – one that is slowly and increasingly helping to rehabilitate… Continue reading
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Immigration Story Missing Context of Hunger and Freedom By Jane Regan
In the classroom, I emphasize that every news story—even a little one about a city sidewalk repair—must provide context. Why that sidewalk, why now? Who lives there and walks there? What sidewalks are not getting repaired? When was the sidewalk first built? What’s the budget? And so on. Continue reading
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The Refugee Crisis and the Mediterranean Sea – The Largest Graveyard in Modern History By Peter Koenig
In June 2018 alone, more than 500 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. Their boats were refused access to land in either Malta, or Italy. They were force-driven back by gun-boats to the North African shores they came from, mostly Libya, but many boats capsized and countless refugees didn’t make it. Continue reading
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The “Global War on Terror” Created The “Global Refugee Crisis”
25 June 2018 — Global Research News Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Starving, Enslaving, Torturing and Killing Our Children By Robert J. Burrowes, June 25, 2018 Every day, according to some estimates, human adults kill 50,000 of our children. The true figure is probably significantly higher. We kill children in wars. See, for example, ‘Scourging Yemen’. We kill them with Continue reading
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The “Global War on Terror” Created The “Global Refugee Crisis”
25 June 2018 — Global Research News Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Starving, Enslaving, Torturing and Killing Our Children By Robert J. Burrowes, June 25, 2018 Every day, according to some estimates, human adults kill 50,000 of our children. The true figure is probably significantly higher. We kill children in wars. See, for example, ‘Scourging Yemen’. We kill them with Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 30 January 2018 (01/18)
30 January 2018 — Statewatch News ANALYSIS 1. Human rights violations at Spain’s southern border: steps towards restoring legality Continue reading
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IRR News (1 – 14 December 2017)
14 December 2017 — IRR Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice This has been a horrendous year for deaths of migrants, asylum seekers and foreign nationals across Europe, whether it be in the Mediterranean, at land borders, during the deportation process, in prisons, immigration removal centres or inadequately funded Continue reading
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IRR News (3 – 16 November 2017)
18 November 2017 — Institute of Race Relations Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice No one should be stigmatised, harassed or prosecuted for saving lives at sea or assisting weary and displaced people at a border. This week, the IRR launches its new report Humanitarianism: the unacceptable face of Continue reading
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Bicycle Hoax Highlights Soulless Cycle
Hundreds of spectators witnessed a bizarre spectacle Saturday,when a slick new tech startup called RefuGreenErgy held a three-hour launch event in central Brussels. The event featured four “RefuGreens” (actual refugees) happily pedaling battery-filling bikes while “company representatives” (actually activists) described to tourists and others how the refugees were producing “green” electricity they could buy; the… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 11 July 2017 (08/17)
SPECIAL: The European Commission asked Italy to draw up a “Code of Conduct” for NGOs carrying out search and rescue in the Mediterranean: Continue reading
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Audio: Vijay Prashad on Displaced People
Displaced people aren’t one story; they’re 65.9 million, according to the UN Refugee Agency. But it’s not just a story about individuals. What’s the connection between displacement and the so-called war on terror? Climate disruption? Poverty? On displacement, If you aren’t telling the big, interconnected story, you aren’t telling the story. Continue reading
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Imperialist Wars And Interventions Fuel Refugee Crisis In Africa By Thomas Gaist
The tide of refugees comes predominantly from countries where the United States and its European allies have intervened most heavily. In Africa, just as in the Middle East, decades of imperialist warfare have shattered entire societies and turned large sections of the population into refugees. This is the most important factor underlying the huge exodus… Continue reading
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Video: Dzhangal
Gideon Mendel has created a powerful installation using objects he gathered during visits to the ‘Jungle’ refugee camp in Calais. Continue reading
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