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The Empire Files With Abby Martin: The Censored Reality of the Refugee Crisis

The Empire Files With Abby Martin: The Censored Reality of the Refugee Crisis
Mon, 11/2/2015 - by Abby Martin
This article originally appeared on Telesur

Today 60 million human beings are displaced by war and extreme poverty. Many European countries are responding to the crisis with racist hysteria and polices, backed by police measures. 

Abby Martin exposes the facts that are left out of the mainstream reporting: the role of criminal wars, disastrous neoliberal economics and why mass displacement is a permanent feature under this system.

Featuring interviews with:
Atossa Abrahamian, journalist and author of the new book "The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen" (Twitter: @atossaaraxia)

Professor Saskia Sassen, sociologist and expert on human migration, currently serving as co-chair of Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. She just published her latest book on the subject, "Expulsions." (Twitter: @SaskiaSassen)

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