Hypocrisies About Refugees Here are two visuals from the latest annual U.N. report about the world’s refugee situation, “UNHCR Global Trends 2018” (https://www.unhcr.org/5d08d7ee7.pdf), and though these images don’t pack the emotional punch of a child’s corpse that has just been washed upon a beach after drowning when his family had attempted to escape from a country that the U.S. and its allies were ‘trying to make free’ by bombing it to hell, each of these two pictures below contains a much bigger and more important message than does any such tear-jerking image or anecdote, but each of these pictures requires a bit of intelligence in order to understand it: Figure 1 | Global forced displacement | 2009-2018 (foto UNHCR) Figure 4 | Key flows of newly registered refugees and new asylum-seekers in 2018 (foto UNHCR) The first picture shows the result of the U.S. regime’s regime-change wars under Obama and Trump, in Syria and Venezuela especially. (Syria by using Al Qaeda in Syria to lead jihadists to bring down the Government (https://www.sott.net/article/343169-Russia-now-runs-the-peace-process-to-end-Syrias-War), and Venezuela by strangulating sanctions that have produced an economic blockade which prohibits food and medicine from being able to reach the population). The 9-year earlier “UNHCR Global … Meer lezen over Eric Zuesse – Hypocrisies About Refugees