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Exclusive: Spanish judge seeks Sheldon Adelson security chief in Assange spying case
A Spanish judge’s request to probe a Las Vegas Sands staffer’s apparent role in a criminal spying operation against Julian Assange indicates the investigation is homing in on US intelligence. Tellingly, the Department of Justice is stonewalling the application. Continue reading
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Catalonia News Links 19-20 October 2019
20 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Dramatic Footage Shows National Spanish Police In Brutal Catalonia Protest Crackdown http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/9rkG60XpNgs/dramatic-footage-shows-national-spanish-police-in-brutal-catalonia-protest-crackdown.html Tsunami Of Dissent Floods Streets Of Catalonia https://popularresistance.org/tsunami-of-dissent-floods-streets-of-catalonia/ Continue reading
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Spain’s Supreme Court endorses 1936 fascist coup By Alejandro López
Spain’s Supreme Court has issued a ruling endorsing the 1936 fascist coup led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco. It led to the three-year Spanish Civil War, in which the victory of Francoite forces backed by Hitler and Mussolini established a fascist dictatorship that lasted until 1978. Continue reading
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Podemos could lose half its seats in Spain’s general election By Alejandro López and Paul Mitchell
Support for Spain’s pseudo-left Podemos party has slumped ahead of the April 28 general election as a result of its pro-austerity, pro-Socialist Party (PSOE) policies. Continue reading
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CIA Blames Its Proxy For Its Raid On North Korea’s Embassy In Spain
The CIA is the main suspect in the military style raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid. It now launched a somewhat hapless effort to deflect from it. Continue reading
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Spanish army threatens to intervene in Catalonia as ministers are jailed By Paul Mitchell and Alex Lantier
The threat of domestic military intervention in Spain, amid a state of emergency in neighboring France and escalating demands for Internet censorship in Washington, is the product of a mortal crisis of capitalism. After a quarter century of escalating militarism and austerity measures since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, and particularly since… Continue reading
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Catalan Premier Appeals To EU As Opposition Mounts To Madrid’s Crackdown By Alex Lantier
Workers in Catalonia and across Spain face an attempt by the Spanish ruling elite to seize the Catalan regional state apparatus, purge the public service and crush all opposition to the EU’s agenda of austerity and militarism by mobilizing tens of thousands of Guardia Civil and soldiers. The danger of bloody police-military repression in Catalonia… Continue reading
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Spain Imposes Military Rule in Catalonia to Preempt Independence Bid By Alex Lantier and Alejandro López
Yesterday’s events mark a historic collapse of democratic forms of rule in Western Europe and a return to authoritarianism with far-reaching implications. The Spanish political set-up created 39 years ago, in the so-called Transition from the 1939-1978 fascist regime established by General Francisco Franco, has burst asunder. With the full support of the European Union… Continue reading
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Spain Moves Toward Military Rule In Catalonia By Alex Lantier
In a menacing speech to the Spanish Congress on Wednesday, Popular Party (PP) Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy stated that, in response to Catalan regional Premier Carles Puigdemont’s speech affirming the October 1 independence referendum, he was preparing to invoke Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution. This provision allows Madrid to suspend the authority of the… Continue reading
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Catalan Premier Affirms Right To Independence From Spain, But Delays Formal Declaration By Alex Lantier
Speaking Tuesday evening before the Catalan parliament in Barcelona, regional premier Carles Puigdemont announced that Catalonia would secede from Spain, in line with the result of the October 1 Catalan independence referendum. However, he put off a formal declaration of independence for now and requested negotiations with the central government in Madrid. The Popular Party… Continue reading
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Don’t Cry for Me, Catalonia By S. Artesian
Either the secessionist wave mobilizing hundreds of thousands in Catalonia is being generated by the conflicts and antagonisms intrinsic to capitalism in general as expressed in the particular conflicts and antagonisms embedded in the capitalist relations of Catalonia with the rest of Spain, or…or nothing, because then the critique of capital, and historical materialism have… Continue reading
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Catalan Independence: Out of Madrid’s Frying Pan, Into the NATO Fire? By Tony Cartalucci
Media on all sides surrounding the recent Catalan referendum for independence from Spain focused on Madrid’s security crackdown on voters. However, what is not being mentioned about Catalonia’s ongoing bid to achieve independence, who is leading it, and what their plans are for the region should they succeed, is just as important. Continue reading
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Cataluña Libre? By Peter Koenig
Yesterday’s historic vote – the Referendum decided by the Government of Cataluña, called illegal by the neoliberal Rajoy Government of Madrid – turned into an event of abject police violence against masses of unarmed voters. The Referendum may have been illicit according to the Spanish Constitution, but voting in a referendum as an expression of… Continue reading
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Catalonia’s Referendum: Selected Articles
2 October 2017 — Global Research On Catalonia’s Referendum By Moon of Alabama, October 02, 2017 Polling stations were set up for today. But Spanish laws do not allow for such polls or a separation. Catalonia, like other Spanish regions, already has a good degree of autonomy. If Catalonia were to secede the Basque areas in the Continue reading
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The future of the EU at stake in Catalonia By Pepe Escobar
Fascist Franco may have been dead for more than four decades, but Spain is still encumbered with his dictatorial corpse. A new paradigm has been coined right inside the lofty European Union, self-described home/patronizing dispenser of human rights to lesser regions across the planet: “In the name of democracy, refrain from voting, or else.” Call… Continue reading
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Understanding Transversality: Spain’s Podemos By Juan Antonio Gil de los Santos
When the 15-M movement broke out onto the streets across Spain in 2011, it didn’t coalesce into a series of political parties on either end of the political spectrum. In fact, there was a common declaration that stood out among all of the indignados: “They don’t represent us”. This referred to the “Regime of ‘78”… Continue reading
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Spanish State: After the Abdication of the King, It’s Time to Checkmate the Regime By Esther Vivas
The regime is collapsing, it is dying and in its last-ditch struggle to survive, the king has abdicated. Never has the regime resulting from the Transition [The Transition is the name given to the political process following the death of Franco, which culminated in the Constitution of 1978] been as widely challenged as it is… Continue reading
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Spanish state: ‘We must continue to widen the cracks that have begun to open up’ By Josep Maria Antentas
Overall, the crisis of the two-party system is, for now, tilting towards the left. This is worth noting given that across Europe, reactionary forces advanced everywhere. The vote for the left to the left of social democracy in the Spanish state is possibly, together with the vote for Syriza in Greece, the only two bits… Continue reading
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