Spain

Demonstrators declare “Catalonia is Spain.”

(ANTIWAR.COM) — After weeks of massive public demonstrations across Catalonia with the slogan “Catalonia is not Spain,” a major rally was held Sunday in Barcelona, in which anti-secessionists declared that after all this, Catalonia actually is Spain.

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Spanish court order won’t stop declaration.

Guerrilla Jr. and Simonow are political dissidents involved with Disidencia, a right-wing site focused on Spanish politics.

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October 1 showed the US why we need civilian guns.

(FEE) — Since the tragic murder of 59 peaceful concertgoers in Las Vegas Sunday, I’ve heard well-intentioned Americans from all political corners echoing heartbroken and tempting refrains:

Can’t we just ban guns?
Surely we can all get together on the rocket launchers.
Things like this would happen less often.
We have enough military.

Democracy can be messy. In the northeast corner of Spain this week, democracy was downright chaotic.
Catalans went to the polls on Sunday to vote in a referendum on whether to stay in Spain or go their separate way. The Spanish authorities, however, declared the vote illegitimate and sent in the national police to disrupt the referendum.

Catalan Raimon Castellvi wears a flag with an Estelada (Catalan separatist flag) as he protests outside the European Commission in Brussels after Sunday’s independence referendum in Catalonia, Belgium, Oct. 2, 2017. (Photo: Twitter)
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