Who is responsible for the refugee crisis in Europe?
by Bill Van Auken, http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/09/04/pers-s04.html, 4th of September 2015 The gut-wrenching images of a three-year-old Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach, lying face-down in the sand, his lifeless body then cradled by a rescue worker, have brought home to people all over the world the desperate crisis that is unfolding on Europe’s borders. |
Who is responsible for the refugee crisis in Europe? |
Bill Van Auken
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The
gut-wrenching images of a three-year-old Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach, lying face-down in the sand, his lifeless body then cradled by a rescue worker, have brought home to people all over the world the desperate crisis that is unfolding on Europe’s borders.
Michel Kichka, Israel
There is plenty of blame to go around for these deaths, which are Canada’s Conservative Party government ignored a request made in Ruben L. Oppenheimer, Netherlands
But what of the US? American politicians and the US media are The Washington Post, for example, published an editorial What, in turn, are the “roots” of the crises in these countries Any serious consideration of what lies behind the surge of refugees With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US ruling This strategy was summed up crudely in the slogan advanced by the Wall Street Journal in the aftermath of the first war against Iraq in 1991: “Force works.” What the world is witnessing in today’s wave of desperate refugees Decade-long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, waged under the pretext of They were followed by the US-NATO war for regime change that toppled The predatory interventions in Libya and Syria were justified in the
Rafat Alkhateeb, Jordan
No one has been held accountable for these crimes. Bush, Cheney, Together they are responsible for what is unfolding on Europe’s
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Who is responsible for the refugee crisis in Europe? |
Bill Van Auken
|
The
gut-wrenching images of a three-year-old Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach, lying face-down in the sand, his lifeless body then cradled by a rescue worker, have brought home to people all over the world the desperate crisis that is unfolding on Europe’s borders.
Michel Kichka, Israel
There is plenty of blame to go around for these deaths, which are Canada’s Conservative Party government ignored a request made in Ruben L. Oppenheimer, Netherlands
But what of the US? American politicians and the US media are The Washington Post, for example, published an editorial What, in turn, are the “roots” of the crises in these countries Any serious consideration of what lies behind the surge of refugees With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US ruling This strategy was summed up crudely in the slogan advanced by the Wall Street Journal in the aftermath of the first war against Iraq in 1991: “Force works.” What the world is witnessing in today’s wave of desperate refugees Decade-long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, waged under the pretext of They were followed by the US-NATO war for regime change that toppled The predatory interventions in Libya and Syria were justified in the
Rafat Alkhateeb, Jordan
No one has been held accountable for these crimes. Bush, Cheney, Together they are responsible for what is unfolding on Europe’s
|
– See more at: http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=15831#sthash.YtsHl3Jt.dpuf
Who is responsible for the refugee crisis in Europe? |
Bill Van Auken
|
The
gut-wrenching images of a three-year-old Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach, lying face-down in the sand, his lifeless body then cradled by a rescue worker, have brought home to people all over the world the desperate crisis that is unfolding on Europe’s borders.
Michel Kichka, Israel
There is plenty of blame to go around for these deaths, which are Canada’s Conservative Party government ignored a request made in Ruben L. Oppenheimer, Netherlands
But what of the US? American politicians and the US media are The Washington Post, for example, published an editorial What, in turn, are the “roots” of the crises in these countries Any serious consideration of what lies behind the surge of refugees With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US ruling This strategy was summed up crudely in the slogan advanced by the Wall Street Journal in the aftermath of the first war against Iraq in 1991: “Force works.” What the world is witnessing in today’s wave of desperate refugees Decade-long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, waged under the pretext of They were followed by the US-NATO war for regime change that toppled The predatory interventions in Libya and Syria were justified in the
Rafat Alkhateeb, Jordan
No one has been held accountable for these crimes. Bush, Cheney, Together they are responsible for what is unfolding on Europe’s
|
– See more at: http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=15831#sthash.YtsHl3Jt.dpuf