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Monday, January 16th, 2017

The world needs a new strategy to tackle the migration crisis

Author:     William Lacy Swing
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Saturday 14 January 2017 19.04 EST
 Link: The world needs a new strategy to tackle the migration crisis
Stephan:   I have been writing about migrations, and their power to create social instability for almost 10 years now, and it has surprised me that corporate media has been so blind to its implications. But that is beginning to change. The Guardian is not corporate media, it belongs to a non-profit foundation, but it is one of the major world papers in the English language. In my view we will be seeing much more about this in the coming months.

Migrants are rescued from a boat by members of an NGO in the Mediterranean, about 20km north of Ra’s Tajura, Libya, last week.
Credit: Olmo Calvo/AP

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2 Comments

  1. M. Roberts on Monday, January 16, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    The thing that I don’t see much of is a reliable prediction of climate refugees IN THE U.S. All the pictures are of black folks running from war. But what’s behind all that?

    • Stephan Schwartz on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 7:14 pm

      I have written a great deal about this, see the SR archives. We don’t have numbers yet, but can already see the beginnings of three migrations, one away from a coast, out of the SW because of temperature and drought, and out of the central states because of extreme weather events like tornadoes.