It is time to allow Syria to be rebuilt and recover from an unjust war which left death and destruction in its path. Lebanese clans living in Germany, who are involved in drug trafficking, have caused death and mayhem. The German police responded to a massive brawl which broke out on June 16 in front…
Grotesque though it may seem, what happened last week when anything up to 500 men women and children drowned off the coast of Pylos in Greece was just another day in the life of the Mediterranean Sea. Mass drownings of refugees, who set out in overcrowded boats from Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, have become so commonplace…
Mortality at sea is becoming a theme of late. The nature of how that mortality has been represented, however, has varied. The death of a billionaire on a quest to see the sunken ruins of the Titanic is treated with saturating interest; the deaths of those making their way across the Mediterranean to seek sanctuary…
June 20th of every year is commemorated as World Refugee Day, an acknowledgment of those who have fled their countries of birth to seek relief from dangerous conditions which are human in origin as well as natural disasters. During 2023, the number of refugees along with Internationally Displaced Persons (IDPs) reached unprecedented levels as 108.4…
Fadi, a Syrian teenager with curly hair and an acne-covered face, has miraculously survived one of the greatest migrant boat disasters in the modern history of the Mediterranean. Only 104 people have been rescued from a boat that carried an estimated 750 refugees after it capsized on June 13 in the open sea near the…
The supreme irony is that Kiev’s representatives spew ethno-nationalist hate speech against Russians in Ukraine while simultaneously stoking similar such ethno-nationalist hatred against their own refugees in Europe through the dog whistles that they just blew by fearmongering about them. This Machiavellian weaponization of hate speech proves that they’re not below putting their most desperate…
