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Franco foundation

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

A foundation that celebrates former Spanish dictator Franco succeeded in blocking Madrid from changing the names of streets that commemorate the dictator's "heroes".

I suspect that this success reflects the hidden power of his supporters that remain influential in the right-wing governing party and in the state.

I don't think it is right to try to ban ideas, but the state can legitimately cut off the mechanisms of influence that they use to promote tyranny.

Meanwhile, Spain has done little to commemorate Franco's victims — those that died fighting his coup, and those that his forces murdered or imprisoned afterwards. Many of them were used for forced labor, building monuments that say little about who built them.

Fracking protesters

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Protesters against fracking in England face heavy punishment under the right wing's harsh laws.

Illinois and Israel

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

The governor of Illinois promised to give information to Israel about "terrorist" suspects — which will probably end up meaning anyone that campaigns to end the occupation of Palestine.

Reporting on Iran

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Leaks revealed that the bully's regime is manipulating the media by reports of crimes that it can attribute to Iranians, as a scheme to whip up support for further sanctions against Iran and destroying the nuclear deal.

This deal is why Iran does not have nuclear weapons.

The "crime" that is supposed to be horrible is hardly one we should care about at all. It does not harm or threaten the United States or its people. It only affects a corporation that imposes several injustices on its clients as standard practice.

Please join me in telling Netflix to go flick off.

Chief Joseph's speech

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Chief Joseph's surrender speech was probably fabricated by the man who claimed to have written it down. Likewise many other famous quotes attributed to indigenous people in what is now the USA.

It should be noted that indigenous tribes did not live in general peace with each other or have a system of generally recognized land rights. It was common for tribes to fight other tribes and take land from them.

By present-day standards, what they did to each other was wrong, and it was wrong again when the European colonists did it to them.

These standards were brought by the colonists, who made treaties with various tribes, then upheld the treaties in a one-sided way (only when that advantaged the colonists). We can judge those colonists for their cheating, but it is a mistake to project present day-standards back to people of the past in an anachronistic way.

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