(2021-12-09). àáa Suffit! Time for Boris to Get Tough on Macron by Turning to the Military. strategic-culture.org The migrant crisis is putting Boris Johnson under enormous pressure to hit Macron where it hurts, Martin Jay writes. | Time after time, in recent weeks, we have seen the threats and rhetoric ramped up by "weasel" French President against Boris Johnson and his government. Whether it is the rights of British fisherman to be in their own waters or more recently the migrant crisis which captured the headlines when 27 asylum seekers attempting to cross the Channel perished when their boat was unable to sustain what is believed to be a wake left by an oil tanker. | But how much longer can Boris Johnson stay at the helm…
(2021-12-09). How Europe's "Shadow Immigration System" Pays Libyan Militias to Jail Migrants in Brutal Conditions. democracynow.org 
An explosive new investigation details how the European Union has created a shadow immigration system that captures migrants arriving from Africa before they reach Europe and sends them to brutal militia-run detention centers in Libya. "This is a climate migration story," says Ian Urbina, investigative journalist and director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, who authored the report for The New Yorker magazine. "The policy of the EU of outsourcing migration control to a failed state in Libya … is a really doomed strategy, and it's only going to get more perilous as more waves of people start trying to reach safer pl…
(2021-12-08). Palestine Solidarity Day officially recognized in Philadelphia. workers.org 
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was officially recognized in Philadelphia for the first time on Nov. 29. Philadelphia City Hall, Nov. 29. Mayor Jim Kenney, Amy Eusebio (director of the Office of Immigrant Affairs), City Council members Kendra Brooks, Jamie Gauthier and Maria Quinoñes Sanchez, State Representative . . . |
(2021-12-08). Legality, safety, and rationality of 'pushing back' migrant boats questioned by Lords committee. thecanary.co The legality of Priti Patel's plans to turn back migrant boats at sea has been called into question by peers including senior lawyers and a former judge. | "Concerns": | The Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee has written to the home secretary expressing "concerns" over the legal basis for the so-called 'pushbacks'. The letter adds to "growing concern both in and outside Parliament" over the policy proposed in a bid to curb Channel crossings, peers said. | It comes as the Nationality and Borders Bill is being considered by MPs in the Commons. It's at report stage for a second day before it gets a…
(2021-12-08). Lithuania: pensioners get ready for death. moderndiplomacy.eu Main attention of the Lithuanian media has been focused on migrant crises and security issues for several weeks. This problem has become also a good reason to once again draw the attention of the population to the need of increasing defense capabilities. This problem has become a good excuse for further increasing of the armed …