Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Europe's war on refugees | The Chris Hedges Report" video.

No, I'm sorry -- ignoring the larger picture in this instance is unacceptable. Greece was pushed to the brink, and essentially did collapse in 2015, and for years, 25 to 30% of those under 25 had no job and no hope of finding a job. It is an EU neo-colony. When Greece elected a decent government, it was not allowed to govern. The banks decided policy instead. And then, the very same forces who did this also determined that Greece should be the stopping place for all refugees. Can you be serious? At the very end, Helen Benedict gives a nod to "a few nice Greek people -- they aren't all racists." Benedict, who has had her choice of living in London or New York her entire life, is going to pontificate to a people who still see no solution for their own predicament. She is the embodiment of petite bonne femme bien pensante. I'm not sure whether the Greeks are racist, but I have no doubt the English are. After all, they don't have to live there.
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@stephenlock7236 Just like the US, huh?
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@mustang19ms In Greece, a very small number of neoliberal political leaders, with support from the US/EU of course, took power and indebted the country, leaving the people with the bill and no way to escape it. You probably know how debt peonage works. What you say about Syria is undoubtedly true. I use Greece as an example for obvious reasons -- it was the victim in a "war" that never got hot, a "war" that was conducted with paper.
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@republica7337 I don't think that's fair, given that he was a war correspondent at grave danger to himself for two solid decades. As for Benedict, she deserves it for this performance.
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@biff408 This is simply more EU abuse. They abuse Greece because they can. And Benedict reminds me of those missionaries during imperialism who helped a handful of people, but instead of remaining modest about the nature and extent of their contribution, used it as a license to pontificate.
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@nancyk7954 Bless you and I hope you are doing well. And if you are, I don't think most people in the US can begin to appreciate how unbelievably hard that was. They cannot fathom it, and of course it goes contrary to all of their mythology -- which they will never abandon, no matter what they are faced with. (My parents were refugees, too, and by comparison had it good, because most of their families survived, a sheer miracle.)
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The Guardian put up a video entitled something like Mourning a queen, . . . the view from Britain’s streets, about 3 months ago. I hope I'm not shadowed for recommending it. It provides stark and graphic evidence of what you just wrote.
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@nancyk7954 Needless to say, I told a Ukrainian friend back in March that if anyone in his family or close to him were ever to need a place to stay, my door is open. I reiterated this several times during the year so that he would know I was serious. The real kicker is that my family in America died out, I'm not wealthy, and I will have to leave the States to live near family and have a decent old age someday. All true. (Of course!!) These people blow my mind.
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@bkolumban "Good parrot?" Look who's talking.
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Where did you get this idea??
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