Brian Synnott
@briansynnott.bsky.social
European Commission DG EAC press & social media
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"Migrants in Tunisia are being sold as slaves to Libyan gangs for as little as £10 per person with the complicity of the EU, a damning report claims.
They are rounded up… kept in dcs & then sold to militia & traffickers on the border with Libya." www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
They are rounded up… kept in dcs & then sold to militia & traffickers on the border with Libya." www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
EU ‘complicit’ in sale of migrants as £10 slaves
Capture of sub-Saharan Africans being ‘enabled’ by deal between Italy and Tunisia
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
"Migrants in Tunisia are being sold as slaves to Libyan gangs for as little as £10 per person with the complicity of the EU, a damning report claims.
They are rounded up… kept in dcs & then sold to militia & traffickers on the border with Libya." www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
They are rounded up… kept in dcs & then sold to militia & traffickers on the border with Libya." www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Reposted by Brian Synnott
I just received a North America royalties statement for 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned' & I'm delighted to see it's being read in the US & Canada. Have a look if you haven't, imo it gives context to the current political situation. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696846... @melvillehouse.bsky.social
My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden: 9781685890575 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
"A magnificent, engagé investigative report… [an] act of witness...It is clear from [Hayden’s book] that the current politics of immigration have turned & twisted human nature...
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January 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I just received a North America royalties statement for 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned' & I'm delighted to see it's being read in the US & Canada. Have a look if you haven't, imo it gives context to the current political situation. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696846... @melvillehouse.bsky.social
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'Liberals are struggling for answers because they cannot grasp that the benefits of rationality, individual freedoms, and the pursuit of scientific endeavour and personal prosperity just do not accrue meaningfully to enough people any more.'
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Behind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis | Nesrine Malik
As authoritarians triumph by lying and scapegoating, there is no hope for centrists doubling down on a broken neoliberal system, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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November 18, 2024 at 9:11 AM
'Liberals are struggling for answers because they cannot grasp that the benefits of rationality, individual freedoms, and the pursuit of scientific endeavour and personal prosperity just do not accrue meaningfully to enough people any more.'
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This week's column
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