Barcelona Protests: Day 3 of the unrest in Catalonia

I feel like someone’s dad at a Justin Bieber concert. The protestors, in skinny jeans, Nikes and black hoodies, mostly appear to be around twenty. It’s getting late

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Catalan Rebellion Episode IV – the flight to Belgium

Long, long ago, in a galaxy far away… One man stood up for his people. Against all odds, he defended the freedom of his tiny planet against the

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Catalonia declares independence – What now?

Well, it’s finally happened. Catalonia has declared independence from Spain. I was ready to do any number of other things this afternoon, but – humble public servant that

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Catalan independence update – week two of Spain’s national crisis

What a time to be alive! The Catalan independence thing appears – for now – to be moving forward, but in the past week there have been some

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Catalonian Independence – will Spain survive the referendum?

I spent all day wondering: should I really write about Catalonian independence? Then I thought… fuck it. This whole thing is going from bad to worse, with or

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All the latest news from Spain – Dalí’s corpse, Catalonian independence, and terror in Barcelona

It’s been quite a summer. And the news from Spain is looking grimmer than ever. Everyone’s favorite surrealist Salvador Dalí quite literally got rolled over in his grave,

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