Randy Short: Global south must resist colonialism
Press TV has conducted an interview with Randy Short, a human rights activist in Tennessee, to discuss the issue of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, making an oftentimes deadly journey.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: What are the main reasons that these people immigrate to Europe? Where does this problem stem from?
Short: It stems from the so-called humanitarian interventions of the United States and its NATO allies and the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council, in particular in cases like Libya that has been completely destroyed by the United States, NATO and the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council. And second to it Syria. In addition to the destabilization of countries throughout the region, and the so-called again humanitarian operations which are really imperialistic, racist, Islamophobic, land grabbing, resource grabbing or imposition of leadership that the people do not want in these societies.
Press TV: And indeed as you mentioned there, of course others say this too, that if it were not for the colonial policies of Western and European countries in North Africa, there would not been such an influx of refugees into Europe. How do you think this problem should be addressed?
Short: Actually it is going to require that the Non-Aligned nations put the US and its NATO partners and its Wahhabist … partners in check. They are going to have to resist them. They will not voluntarily stop stealing resources, oil or wanting to have a feudalistic, a colonial domination of the global south without resistance.
So there needs to be unity whether people are Sunni, Shia, Alawites, Coptic Christian, the people need to come together, black or Arab, and tell these people to get out of their lives.
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