#1478 Refugees, Borders, War, and the Climate Crisis
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 3/24/2022
Today we take a look at the desperate state of refugees fleeing war, strife and climate disruption as well as the response of governments around the world that espouse liberal platitudes of humanitarianism while hardening their borders against those seeking refuge.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Fortress Europe: Who gets to come in? - The Real Story - Air Date 11-9-21
The European Union is at loggerheads with Belarus over the arrival of thousands of migrants. It alleges that President Lukashenko has created a deliberate crisis by facilitating the migrants' travel into Belarus and onwards to the country's borders
Ch. 2: War in Ukraine - Humane Ukrainians & A Major Refugee Crisis - The Daily Show - Air Date 3-4-22
As Russia's war on Ukraine continues, compassionate Ukrainians come to the aid of Russian soldiers, and Trevor weighs in on the implications of how European countries are welcoming refugees.
As Afghanistan faces a dire humanitarian crisis, we look at how more Afghans may die from U.S. sanctions than at the hands of the Taliban. The U.S.'s attempts to block support for the new de facto government have prevented vital funding from flowing
It’s been more than six months since the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Since the withdrawal, more than 76,000 Afghans have resettled across the U.S. We check in on resettlement efforts, the challenges facing Afghan refugees, and more
Ch. 5: Fortress Europe - Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast - Air Date 2-2-22
In this week’s episode, host Maryam Tanwir and panelist Yasmin Homer discuss the role of technology in the securitization of European borders with MEP Patrick Breyer and researcher Ainhoa Ruiz.
Ch. 6: Border walls and the climate crisis w/ Nick Buxton - This Is Hell! - Air Date 11-3-21
The Transnational Institute's Nick Buxton on the report "Global Climate Wall"
As the U.S. considers a ban on importing Russian oil as part of sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine, senior advisers to President Biden are reportedly planning to visit Saudi Arabia to secure more oil to make up the shortfall.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 9: Border walls and the climate crisis w/ Nick Buxton Part 2 - This Is Hell! - Air Date 11-3-21
Discussing the connection between climate policy and the entities who stand to profit the most by fortifying against climate refugees
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on small-government conservatives' authoritarian tendencies
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8 Ways to Solve the World's Refugee Crisis (Amnesty International)
The Great Climate Migration Has Begun (NYTimes, 2020)
Climate Change Refugees - the world's forgotten victims (World Economic Forum)
#AfricansinUkraine (Twitter hashtag)
Climate Change and Disaster Displacement (UNHCR)
Refugee Environmental Protection Fund (UNHCR)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.2 | take a look at the desperate state of refugees fleeing war, strife, and climate disruption, |
| 0:12.7 | as well as the response of governments around the world that espouse liberal platitudes of |
| 0:17.1 | humanitarianism while hardening their borders against those seeking refuge. |
| 0:22.5 | Clips today are from the real story, the daily show, democracy now, the takeaway, declarations, |
| 0:29.9 | the human rights podcast, and this is hell with an additional members only clip from this |
| 0:35.9 | is hell, and we begin today with a look at European policies from just before the invasion |
| 0:42.4 | of Ukraine was on the radar. |
| 0:50.7 | First to Michael Gala, he's a German MP for the country's governing CDU party, and the |
| 0:55.8 | spokesperson for Foreign Affairs for the Centre-Rite EPP Group within the European Parliament, |
| 1:01.3 | I asked him what he thinks should be done with the migrants currently stranded just outside |
| 1:05.8 | the EU's border. |
| 1:07.3 | We still should demand from the regime to send these people back. |
| 1:12.5 | I mean, we should, of course not forget, these people are also human beings, intercoord |
| 1:18.0 | with women and children involved, so we should see to it that the supply could happen also |
| 1:24.4 | through aid across the border from the Polish side or the Soviet side. |
| 1:30.0 | Given the Polish response, the militarisation of that response, how does that reflect on |
| 1:36.1 | EU values and the EU's projection of itself as a liberal humanitarian organisation? |
| 1:42.6 | Indeed, that does affect this image and that is one of the intentions of the regime. |
| 1:47.7 | Lukashenko thinks he is a win-win situation, either the EU doesn't live up to its own standards |
| 1:52.8 | with regard to humanitarian issues, and then he succeeds in blaming us, or we accept the |
| 2:00.3 | refugee, these migrants over our border, and then he creates this poor factor, and thereby |
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