A strong heading but, fully justified in my view. It starts off for real with G.W.Bush and Tony Blair's lie ridden excuse for war with Iraq. It continued with the mass occupation of Afghanistan leading to strikes in Pakistan, a supposed ally of the west, a crime for which the powers that be have still to answer. Then again UK USA with NATO think they are above the law. we move on to the "Arab Spring" and the US involvement in Egypt and various other North African countries. A case of Obama not liking the various governments and so sends in agitators to stir up the pot and encourage the population to protest and in most cases they don't know what they're protesting about. The western media then ramp up the rhetoric and a full blown rebellion ensues, although not every country degenerated into anarchy. The likes of Syria, Iraq, Libya and now Yemen are in chaos. The repercussions are in all cases a mass migration of refugees to any country that will accept them. That is when it becomes complicated. It only takes a short time until these various countries say enough is enough, we have taken our fair share of refugees and it's someone else's turn. The results are now being felt in southern Europe in a big way. Unscrupulous people are taking advantage by taking extortionate sums of money from these vulnerable people and loading them on to a myriad of boats that leave a lot to be desired on safety precautions.
It seems that the main point of departure for the refugees is Libya, a country which NATO bombed into near oblivion to rid the Libyan people of Colonel Gaddaffi. Once rid of him, NATO abandoned the country into anarchy. Now, Libya is a fertile breeding ground for Al Qaeda and ISIS to recruit untold numbers of fighters. Also, various warlords are exploiting the refugee crisis and making money at the expense of the aforementioned refugees. The EU have sat back for years and taken no steps to alleviate the problem. The likes of Italy, Malta and Greece seem to be bearing the brunt of trying to in actual fact save thousands of lives. It's only the fact that in the last two weeks there have been numerous cases of boats that have capsized and sunk with the loss of hundreds of lives, a good number of them children. The UN are virtually silent on the matter and will probably do the usual and start a fund to which gullible people will send money that will disappear into the usual UN black hole and will help nobody.
Up till now, no efforts have been made by the UN to effect a diplomatic solution to the crises in the Middle East. I haven't even mentioned Israeli atrocities in Gaza. A side note to that is that Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish National Party announced that the government of the UK should officially recognise a free Palestinian state.
The upshot to this is that in effect the West including the EU and USA governments do not care what happens to these refugees. The only thing that seems to matter is the procurement of weapons from the big arms manufacturers using taxpayers money. Yes, Obama, Cameron, Merkel et al do not care about people's lives, especially if they come from the Middle East. They care about corporate business and feathering their own nests
Yes, they have started all these wars, and that is what they are, deliberately with the sole aim of making profit for their backers, and they are all backed by the same people.
Sorry for finishing on such a negative note but, it's up to us, the people to change the system that rules us. The system does not govern us, it rules us and we have to change this corrupt system that has been built up over hundreds of years in various countries by only a few very powerful families, Rothschilds for one.
Till next time.
