spain unhinged
This is the pathetic state that politics in Spain has been reduced to. To outsiders it seems too surreal to be true. Catalans will tell you that surreal became the new normal some time last autumn and that this autumn the crisis will deepen.
Back in the news, Anna Gabriel has once again been subject to the regulation sexist and classist insults and personal attacks from the Spanish right. ‘Fat’, ‘filthy’, ‘sweaty’, ‘flabby’, ‘stinking’, ‘gross’, ‘ugly’, ‘homely’ are just some of the insults and comments about her physical appearance and her image.
“Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the ‘official truth’. They simply cipher and transmit lies.” John Pilger
The Spanish government and media want us to believe that fake news bankrolled from abroad, especially Russia, interfered in the Catalan election and at the same time would like us to ignore the massively expensive homegrown production of alternative facts, fake news, post truth, hysterical exaggeration and racist demonisation. You know: lies. Trump-style, they assert that any critical voice or opinion diverging from the Spanish government line are ‘fake news’.
For an international media organisation with the reputation of The Guardian to give credence to a right-wing trolling campaign while failing to report the real news is shocking. They are making light of an anti-democratic repression of human rights.
Today my UNDERAGE daughter told me she’d received an email from @CiudadanosCs asking for her vote in the 21-D elections.
Ciutadans ha estat picant aquesta metàfora en ferro fred des del començament del partit. Aquí teniu una selecció de referències al Matrix dels seus representants, i altres. La metàfora també és un gran favorit dels blocaires feixistes.
Natural disasters, pandemics and bloody civil wars rarely get coverage like this. The clear non-unionist majority in Catalonia is not an irrelevant minority living in ‘Tractorland’. Determined to continue the punishment for Catalonia, the orange media pretends Catalonia does not exist and invents an alternative version. An orange version.
Franco's cruel legacy: the film that wants to stop Spain forgetting
https://t.co/QQZPJ4Yf6q
In the hills outside Tarragona, @BBCNiallOG meets Carme Forcadell the former speaker of the Catalan parliament now imprisoned for her involvement in the region’s disputed independence referendum: https://t.co/yKKWUmO1A4
ULTIMA HORA el Tribunal Constitucional espanyol confirma la suspensió dels resultats electorals del 21D del 2017, els diputats represaliats perden els seus drets i els catalans el seu dret a vot #copdestat https://t.co/T6RXXrwD4Y
OMG. Spain’s Interior Minister recognizes that the Spanish Government tortured people, but excuses it saying it was only in “exceptional” cases and “you can’t compare it with ETA”. https://t.co/cGENcT6hum
30 Atletico Madrid supporters spent Tuesday night in Bruges cells after being arrested for giving fascist salutes in the streets, refusing to stop and refusing to be escorted to the stadium by police.
Glorification of #fascism is tolerated in #Spain.
https://t.co/7tiKJgY2YQ
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