The more EU politicians try to look in control of the Mediterranean refugee emergency, the more it's obvious they aren't, writes Assaad W. Razzouk. A key driver of the crisis is climate change, which is causing drought across North Africa. Europe must now tackle the root causes of the crisis, and admit its own culpability in precipitating it.
… from Libya to Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon are bursting with millions … join them from the refugee camps in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. This migration pressure …
The random, murderous violence we just saw inflicted on the people of Brussels is absolutely, categorically unacceptable, writes Chris Floyd. So too is the far greater violence routinely inflicted by rich, powerful countries against their innocent victims around the world, and especially in the oil-rich Middle East. To move away from a world of terror, we must make our outrage, and our compassion, inclusive.
… acts of carnage in Brussels (and Paris and Turkey and elsewhere), there is likewise no …
The Export Credit Guarantee Department is accused of underwriting unethical and carbon-intensive business deals in developing countries and operating with a lack of transparency - charges it denies.
… system for an aluminium recycling facility in Turkey - none of the exports the ECGB … project scrapped, but pipeline gets go-ahead Turkey's plans for a hydroelectric dam on the …
It's now clear what place government ministers and senior officials want for the UK in a post-Brexit world, writes Mark Curtis - and it's not pretty! A new era of corporate 'free trade' colonialism looms, spearheaded by aid spending, with ramped-up arms exports to the world's most corrupt and repressive regimes, all backed up by military force to project the Britain's global financial interests.
… Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Turkey, Israel and China, according to …
Say: ‘I am happy to pay for environmental degradation, chronic illness and labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed their own people.’
… Italy carnations, chrysanthemums 6,000 miles Turkey spray carnations 1,750 miles Colombia …
Australia's deliberate and calculated attacks on its indigenous population carry many of the hallmarks of genocide, writes John Pilger. And things are getting worse, not better, as states that have grown rich by exploiting Aboriginal land evict and demolish remote Aboriginal communities.
… their death in a futile assault on a beach in Turkey. In recent years, governments in …