Jean-Pierre Cassarino

@jpcassarino.bsky.social

Teach at College of Europe (Natolin), Research associate at IRMC (Tunis). Formerly Chair in Migration Studies at IMERA (Aix-Marseille University). Addicted to Mahler, I know...🙄 https://www.jeanpierrecassarino.com/

Violations of democratic principles and the rule of law are commonplace in the US. Read the story of this Sierra Leone (SL) national who lived in the US, raised her child and pay taxes. She was deported by #ICE to Ghana, then to SL. Injustice is the rule. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Ghana took in Trump's deported West Africans. Then it forced them home

Ghana is in the middle of a heated debate over President Donald Trump's use of so-called third-country removals to hasten the departure of unauthorised immigrants who cannot easily be sent to their ho...

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16 hours in, my guess this was all intended basically as a coup to put VP Delcy Rodriguez in power (likely without her knowledge but đŸ€·). At least for democracy & human rights, that might be even worse than the "opening shots in a war" scenario. All speculation, but let me explain:

Senator Bernie Sanders calls on the democratic world (Europe) to condemn Trump's "rank imperialism". But his words have fallen on deaf ears here in Europe, where our leaders have been too scared to criticise the US invasion of Venezuela.

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If a government recognises Palestinian statehood then it recognises its right to exist. On that basis, that government cannot continue to fund and arm a state that is explicitly trying to destroy the newly recognised state. Otherwise you’re just doing an actual virtue signal.

🆘 Distress Call from Benghazi ⚠ Two days ago, we received an SOS message from a group of women and children allegedly held in an EU-linked detention camp in Benghazi, Libya. Most of them are Eritrean. They reported daily rape and sexual violence, starvation, torture, and ransom demands. 1/2