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The Crisis in Catalonia
How did we get here! While at the edge of the EU, an organisation that won the Nobel peace prize, we have a return to a violent repression of politics.
- I am astonished that a crisis of democracy can explode so quickly. Those guilty of the violence have a lot to answer for.
I hope Catalonia stays with Spain, but I support its right to leave | Owen JonesCatalans cannot say they are colonised, but a basic democratic principle is at stake, writes the Guardian columnist Owen Jones- Craig Murray has written several blogs on the subject, fiercely focusing on the EU and its founding principles of the rule of law and the Human Rights act. Craig is an ardent campaigner for Scottish independence and some of his conclusions may be influenced through this lense, but his articulate arguments about the breach of fundamental rights, those of self determination and the right to vote are on the money.
Suspending the Catalan Parliament, Spain Destroys the EU's "Rule of Law" Figleaf. - Craig MurrayIt takes a very special kind of chutzpah systematically to assault voters, and drag them from polling booths by their hair, and then say that a low turnout invalidates the vote. That is the shameless position being taken by the Europe wide political Establishment and its corporate media lackeys.- "Rajoy (if he survives) must drop his high-handedness and Puigdemont his destructive hubris." https://nyti.ms/2yG5khZ
- Another example of European Democracy Photos From Catalonia's Independence Vote - via @TheAtlPhoto https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/10/photos-from-catalonias-independence-vote/541761/#img12?utm_source=twb … via @TheAtlPhoto
- Hundreds of thousands protest Madrid’s repression in Catalonia http://www.occuworld.org/news/3683334
- I Am Obliged to Reconsider My Support for the European Union - Craig MurrayTo my own astonishment, and after a full 36 hours of hard thinking to try and escape this conclusion, I am in intellectual honesty obliged to reconsider my lifelong support for the European Union, due to the unqualified backing of the EU Commission for the Spanish Government’s dreadful repression in Catalonia.
Police close voting centres before Catalan referendumThousands of police officers dispatched to evacuate polling stations in attempt to stop independence referendum with ultimatum issued for 6am Sunday
Catalonia referendum: How did we get here?https://www.politico.eu/article/catalonia-referendum-independence-timeline-how-did-we-get-here/- This was made over two weeks in October, and published on the 16th. I started it after reading Craig Murray's article on reconsidering his support for the EU.
