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The Catalan crisis: Is the contemporary nation-state in jeopardy?

The Catalan crisis: Is the contemporary nation-state in jeopardy?

October 29, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Spain’s clumsy government has made a difficult situation worse. That doesn’t mean the nation should be dismembered We reach a grim moment in the crisis between Catalonia and the Spanish state. And it has come hard and fast since late…

Why ‘Bravehearted’ Scots Will Vote for Independence

Why ‘Bravehearted’ Scots Will Vote for Independence

September 15, 2014 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Remember Paul McCartney’s odd protest song after Ireland’s “Bloody Sunday” in 1972? “Give Ireland back to the Irish,” it went, “make Ireland Irish today.” Now it’s Scotland’s turn. The Irish got it done with generations of grinding violence and then…

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