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Refugee deaths in the Mediterranean: An imperialist crime - World Socialist Web Site

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Refugee deaths in the Mediterranean: An imperialist crime
20 April 2016

The deaths of hundreds of refugees in the Mediterranean on Monday is not only a tragedy, it is a crime. Those responsible are the governments in Washington, Berlin, Athens, Rome and other European capitals, as well as the European Union Commission in Brussels.

They bear the guilt for these tragic deaths in two regards. The decades of imperialist oppression of the Middle East and Africa and the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have created the conditions in which millions of people would rather risk their lives by fleeing than face the constant danger of death and ever-present reality of bitter poverty at home. And the sealing of Europe’s borders, together with naval patrols in the Mediterranean, force refugees to take ever more dangerous routes.

#réfugiés #migrations #asile #mourir_en_mer #méditerranée

Quackdown! - The EU Directive, Avaaz and the myth of the Mama & Papa herbalists
►http://www.quackdown.info/article/eu-directive-avaaz-and-myth-mama-papa-herbalists

it is distressing that Avaaz is running a petition that lends support to quacks.

The petition has collected nearly 600,000 signatories. It calls upon the European Union Commission to amend a directive that goes into force today. The directive, helpfully titled 2004/24/EC, regulates herbal medicines. Renowned debunker Edzard Ernst summarises the purpose of the legislation:

A new EU directive will legislate that a licence for a herbal medicine will be given only if it has been available for a long enough time, if its safety has been established scientifically and if it is of sufficiently high quality. This must be a good thing, because it should reduce the risk to consumers.

But according to Avaaz:

In 1 day, the EU will ban much of herbal medicine, pressing more of us to take pharmaceutical drugs that drive the profits of big Pharma.

#pétition #internet #quacks #santé #faussaires