Unwelcome Refugees

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders on Sunday celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Lisbon Treaty, the union's legal cornerstone, amid calls to reform a bloc weakened over the past decade by economic and migration crises, risi…

The game Airmash was announced on Dec 10 2017 on Hacker News by a user named fivesigma. The announcement post became one of the most upvoted posts on Hacker News, and the game became very succesful in the year to come. But it would have a very rocky history.…

French President Emmanuel Macron warned Turkey on Thursday that it is alienating allies, and should not depend on support from the multinational alliance while also carrying out widely-condemned military operations against Kurds in northern Syria as a “fait a…

If this country ever goes under, it will be for needless, egregious hypocrisy.   Norman Mailer, “Harlots Ghost” Somewhere in Heaven, English author George Orwell is either laughing, crying, or looking on; mouth agape, speechless. The total corruption of the …

In 2015, at the start of the wave of migrants who hit European shores over the next few years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that migration and asylum would preoccupy Europe much, much more than the issue of Greece and the stability of the eurothe majo…

One morning in 1972, French author Jean Raspail was at his home on the Mediterranean coast when he had a vision of a million refugees clamoring to enter Europe. Armed only with their weakness and their numbers, overwhelmed by misery, encumbered with starving…

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The Greek government has announced a new migration policy at a special briefing. The plan envisages strengthening border protection by creating a single border control agency, accelerating asylum procedures, creating enclosed centres on islands that migrants …

Protesters carry a coffin that contains the remains of a fellow protester, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 19, 2019. (AP / Dieu Nalio Chery) With so many dramatic and damning revelations coming out of the impeachment hearings, its become all too easy to i…

The EU and UN-backed Libyan government in Tripoli has turned refugees' misery into a "profitable business model", according to a leaked report by the EU Council presidency, Finland, seen by British newspaper The Guardian. The more than 5,000 people held in Li…