In Liberia, the Horrors of Trump’s Third Country Migrant Deportation Program Are Shockingly Exposed
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Two days ago, on Channel 4 News in the UK, reporter Jamal Osman traveled to Liberia, in west Africa, to meet some of the 14 US migrants who were recently deported there from the US, as part of the Trump administration’s grotesque mass deportation program.
The program is overseen and tightly controlled by Stephen Miller, Trump’s Homeland Security Advisor, who, it is fair to say, is nothing less than a modern-day Nazi, obsessed with, and driving with fanatical enthusiasm his plans for the mass ethnic cleansing of the United States. I wrote about Miller’s profoundly baleful, racist influence on the US in an article in February, entitled, An Ever-Expanding Gulag of Concentration Camps for Immigrants: The US Under Stephen Miller.
More than half a million migrants have been deported to their home countries since Trump’s second term began, but those sent to Liberia are amongst another group — the estimated 25,000 migrants to date who have been sent to third countries, 28 in total, with which they have no connection whatsoever.
The IPCC’s “Final Warning”: Only Rapid, Deep and Immediate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts Can “Secure a Liveable and Sustainable Future For All”
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On Monday, the frenetic gossipy world of nonsense and distraction that, rather sadly and shamefully, constitutes most of what passes for news and culture these days paused for a moment to reflect upon the publication of the most significant document that will be published this year — the latest climate change report prepared by the climate scientists of the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the United Nations body founded in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to provide “regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation.”
This latest report — rather functionally known as the ‘AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023’ — is the final outcome of the IPCC’s sixth reporting period, which began in 2017, and which synthesises the findings of three working group reports, published in 2021 and 2022, as well as three special reports, published in 2018 and 2019.
The IPCC’s latest report establishes, as its ‘Headline Statements’ summary states, that “Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health”, and that “There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.”
Video: Eddie Daffarn, Who Foresaw the Grenfell Tower Fire, Interviewed by Channel 4 News as the Official Inquiry Begins
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This has been a significant week for the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire last June, when 72 people died in a disaster that should never have happened. On Monday, the official inquiry began, with survivors’ testimony that has been taking place all week after the inquiry’s chair, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, called the fire “the single greatest tragedy to befall [London] since the second world war”, and “pledged that survivors’ testimony would be treated as ‘integral evidence’ in proceedings which could run into 2020”, as the Guardian described it.
The Guardian’s detailed coverage of the hearings this week is here — Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Day Four and Day Five — and, from the beginning, the testimony was extraordinarily powerful.
As the Guardian described it, “Marcio Gomes, the father of Logan Gomes, the disaster’s youngest victim who was stillborn after his mother went into a coma, showed the several hundred gathered survivors, support workers, lawyers and journalists an ultrasound scan of his son and told them how he had been left ‘broken.’” Read the rest of this entry »
Who's still at Guantánamo?
