An interesting take on the refugee issue

[mahnmut]

"Europe is being overrun by refugees from Washington’s, and Israel’s, hegemonic policies in the Middle East and North Africa that are resulting in the slaughter of massive numbers of civilians. The inflows are so heavy that European governments are squabbling among themselves about who is to take the refugees. ... Everywhere in the Western media there are reports deploring the influx of migrants; yet nowhere is there any reference to the cause of the problem.

"The European governments and their insouciant populations are themselves responsible for their immigrant problems. For 14 years Europe has supported Washington’s aggressive militarism that has murdered and dislocated millions of peoples who never lifted a finger against Washington. The destruction of entire countries such as Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, and now Syria and Yemen, and the continuing US slaughter of Pakistani civilians with the full complicity of the corrupt and traitorous Pakistani government, produced a refugee problem that the moronic Europeans brought upon themselves.

"Europe deserves the problem, but it is not enough punishment for their crimes against humanity in support of Washington’s world hegemony."

Thus argues Paul Craig Roberts of the Institute for Political Economy.

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That's right, they're (only) environmental refugess

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's an interesting piece, if marred by his assertion that Obama has any sort of policy towards "the Soviet Union". But his major thesis, that there is little (Western) media attention paid to the root causes is spot-on. I'll note that I've read a number of analyses pointing to the crisis as signs of the eco-apocalypse, though — which also haven't looked much at the politics, except to suggest that the Middle East is kind of crazy.