Optimism among Catalans after Sunday's vote should not disguise the significant challenges ahead if anything is to come from their "non-referendum consultation".
The breach of the social contract is devastating. And it’s not exclusive to Catalonia and its sovereignist process—it goes much further.
The use of drones responds to a simple equation: fewer casualties of one’s own soldiers and maximisation of enemy casualties. And it’s also about selling the idea that the more technology involved, the ‘cleaner’ the war.
We do not know which classes are at loggerheads. We have to engage in a profound rethinking of one of the greatest mutations of the last decades: the true complexity of our contemporary societies.
September 11: the world - and Spain - is taken by surprise with the images of over a million people marching down through the streets of Barcelona, peacefully, in a very calm and cheerful mood, with no incidents whatsoever – in itself marking quite a distinctive exception to the trend in these yea
Real Democracy Now, if it had done nothing else, has rescued a supine Spanish electorate from the stultifying boredom of the recent election period. However, people still turned out to vote. So what’s new?
Milton Wolff was his name. He died on 14 January 2008 at the age of 92. I had the great good fortune to meet him twice in my life and
As the first anniversary of the 11 March 2004 terrorist attacks approaches, we all feel in one way or another concerned with the issue of how to commemorate it. The
In public as well as private life, human beings like to mark anniversaries with round numbers. In 1995, an ambitious brainstorm was launched on the 50th anniversary of the founding
I spent two months in Indonesia in spring 2004 in the role of long-term observer (LTO) with the European Unions election observation mission (EuEom). This was part of an
The French newspaper Le Monde put it best: No other European country has rejected war as Spain did. From the very beginning of the crisis over Iraq, the polls were
