David Icke On Jeremy Corbyn
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Syria’s Bashar al-Assad: West is to blame for refugee crisis
– Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is blaming Western nations for fueling the refugee crisis by supporting opposition groups in his country’s bloody civil war.
“If you are worried about them, stop supporting terrorists,” he said in an interview with Russian news organizations. “That’s what we think regarding the crisis. This is the core of the whole issue of refugees.”
Europe is struggling to deal with unusually large numbers of migrants arriving at its borders, many of them refugees fleeing the years-long conflict in Syria that has killed more than 220,000 people.
Western leaders have criticized al-Assad for presiding over the violent fragmentation of his country, a war that helped spawn the rise of the militant group ISIS and has driven more than four million Syrians to flee abroad.
But the Syrian President told Russian media Tuesday that European countries should take the blame.
“Europe is responsible because it supported terrorism,” he said in the interview at his home in Damascus, the capital. Continue reading . . .
The refugee crisis: 9 questions you were too embarrassed to ask
Max Fisher & Amanda Taub – There have always been refugees: people who are forced from their home countries by conflict or repression or something else, and who must find new homes and new lives abroad. But there is something different about what’s happening now. The world is experiencing a crisis more severe than anything it has seen in decades — and we are just beginning to wake up to what that means.
Make no mistake: The current refugee crisis is global. The coverage has focused heavily on the refugees arriving in Europe, and especially on Syrian refugees. But in fact refugees are fleeing countries from Honduras to Nigeria to Myanmar, and they are arriving in wealthy countries including the US and Australia, as well as poorer ones like Turkey and Lebanon. It is a worldwide problem — one whose scale and severity is unmatched since World War II.
What follows is a straightforward explanation of the very basics of the refugee crisis: the key facts you need to know to understand what’s happening, how the crisis became so severe, and what can be done to fix it. Continue reading . . .
SF Source The Richie Allen Show Sep 2015
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