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The European Union is controlled by an oligarchy, which dictates socio-economic and political decisions according to the interests of bankers and multi-national business. The central organs of power, the European Commission (EC), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have systematically imposed austerity programs that have degraded working conditions, welfare programs, and wages and salaries.

We meet seven people who, having fled their homelands, have found a new beginning in London. Photographing them in the place where they first felt safe or part of this country, we ask them about the moment the UK became homeThe post The moment I felt at home: refugees tell their stories appeared first on Positive News.

Employment is an integral tool for tackling refugees’ social and economic exclusion, says Matthew Powell - CEO of charity Breaking BarriersThe post Employment and opportunity the key to refugee integration appeared first on Positive News.

(COMMONDREAMS) As Europe comes to terms with a Brexit vote fueled in large part by anti-immigrant hate-mongering, a new report exposes how war profiteers are influencing EU policy to make money from unending Middle East conflicts as well as the wave of refugees created by that same instability and violence.

James Bowery is an American IT pioneer who descends from Scotch-Irish ancestry, with the patriline geographically concentrated in Groningen, Netherlands.

A man from a refugee camp waits to vaccinate his daughter in Baghdad, Iraq [Xinhua]
A new report released by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says that a third of all Iraqi children require humanitarian aid while as many as 20 per cent are in danger of exploitation.
UNICEF says that there are at least 1.5 million children displaced by conflict in Iraq, with that number likely to rise if and when the Iraqi army moves to liberate the northern city of Mosul from the clutches of the Islamic State.

(MEE) About 60,000 Syrian refugees, more than half of whom are children, are trapped at the Jordanian border and in desperate need of aid after the government in Amman halted supplies of water, food and medical care, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Thursday.

The survivors of the 1948 massacres in and expulsions from Palestine are everywhere.  Scattered to the four corners of the earth, we have only to look in our own communities to find them. Seven million Palestinians live outside Palestine, compared with five million inside. At least half a million live in Chile alone.  Why, then, should we bring Palestinians from the refugee camps in Lebanon to tell their stories in North America?

Like almost half British voters I voted “remain” in last week’s EU referendum, so I’m far from delighted with the outcome. But as the capitalists say, every disaster brings with it opportunity, so we must use this chance to call for some desperately-needed changes.
The main issues that were raised during the campaign were about immigration and sovereignty. To properly address the immigration question it’s essential to understand the main causes for it. There are two different but related reasons: Permanent War and Continual Growth.

Prof Tim Anderson

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Prof. Tim Anderson
The war on Syria has never been a civil war, although there has always been a small minority of Syrians who have engaged in the war, betraying their country to NATO and the Persian Gulf monarchies.