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Israel to deport refugees from Africa

samedi 11 avril 2015 à 14:00

Israel is going to make refugees from Africa go to some African country or else be imprisoned.

People fleeing persecution are entitled to asylum; economic migrants are not. However, the distinction is not so sharp. Sometimes a person flees real persecution, and chooses to flee to a wealthy country as a way to get more money. This is why many people try to get to the US, Israel, the European Union, and Australia. It is wrong to send those people back to where they will be persecuted, but that doesn't have to imply they are entitled to entry to the country of their choice.

However, these countries currently subject the refugees to horrible treatment to make them go somewhere else. That can't be justified and can't really be necessary.

If we didn't have so much war, so much tyranny, and so much environmental disaster, fewer people would need to flee persecution.

Vague constitutional amendments

samedi 11 avril 2015 à 14:00

US states have passed vague constitutional amendments that allow big farms to claim the right to disregard environmental protection laws and laws against cruelty to animals.

China building artificial islands

samedi 11 avril 2015 à 14:00

China is building artificial concrete islands in the South China Sea as military bases and excuses to claim the undersea oil.

Sharif Mobley

samedi 11 avril 2015 à 14:00

The US had Yemen disappeared Sharif Mobley. Now the US-supported Saudi bombing campaign is attacking the airbase where he is imprisoned.

Subsidized deforestation

vendredi 10 avril 2015 à 14:00

Brazil and Indonesia give enormous subsidies to exports that require deforestation, dwarfing the subsidies they receive to avoid deforestation.

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