Summary: Former UK ambassador Craig Murray looks at Catalonia and sees that everything is changing, just as they are in America. The tribes of Left and Right are reforming as their allegiances shift. Nations are fragmenting. The major news media conceal or lie as needed to protect the narrative.
“The world is changed, I can feel it in the water, I can feel it in the earth, I can smell it in the air.”
— Said by Treebeard, leader of the Ents, in The Two Towers— part II of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings saga.
“Democratic Triumph for Catalan Separatists“
By Craig Murray at his website, 29 April 2019.
Posted with his generous permission.
The Spanish General election in Catalonia was a stunning victory for the Catalan Separatists, their best ever election result, achieved despite their leadership being exiled or political prisoners and despite an avalanche of MSM propaganda against them. Four of those elected are currently in jail. The Spanish state has reacted by declaring the two major separatist candidates, Clara Ponsati and Carles Puigdemont, ineligible for the European Parliament elections.
The Catalan Republican Left won the biggest share of the vote, which negates the continued false propaganda being put about Catalonian Independence being a right wing movement. Over 60% of the vote in Catalonia went to avowedly left wing parties.
It is further worth noting that there is a very plain correlation between the geographical location of the 3.6% of the vote that the neo-fascists of Vox gained in Catalonia, and the Spanish occupation garrisons in the country. You will struggle very hard indeed to learn any of the above facts from British mainstream media; I had to get them all from Catalan sources.
Photo of the right wing anti-Catalan pin-up.
The Guardian has published 55 articles in the last three years boosting Inés Arrimadas, the leader of the Catalan branch of the right wing “Spanish” Citizens Party {Ciudadanos}, including at least three op-eds written by Ines herself. The Guardian has sought relentlessly to portray public opinion in Catalonia as anti-Independence, and Arrimadas as its true representative.
Yet in the Spanish General Election, Arrimadas’ party got only 11.6% of the vote in Catalonia. The right wing nationalist Spanish parties, the fascist Vox, the Francoist PP and Arrimadas’ foreign security service promoted Citizens, got a pathetic 20.1% of the vote between all three, in a stunning Catalan rejection of Spanish nationalism.
The Citizens Party started life as an astroturf effort to help counter the left-wing and anti-EU populism of Podemos. To that end it was funded and assisted by the German foreign intelligence service, the BND. It remains a favourite tool of foreign intelligence services, particularly MI6 which of course sees the links between Catalan and Scottish nationalism. Hence the peculiarly active link between Ciudadanos {the “Citizens” party} and MI6’s print media mouthpiece, the Guardian.
It is impossible to correlate directly from party results to potential referendum results, as a number of parties including Podemos and the Greens hold ambivalent positions on Independence, and a percentage of voters will have a view on Independence which differs from the party they support. For example a small but significant number of Socialist Party supporters of PM Pedro Sanchez, also support Catalan Independence.
Given the thuggish violence of Francoist paramilitary forces against the ordinary voters in Catalonia’s referendum, given the imprisoning and exile of its peaceful leadership, given the extraordinary Madrid dictated barrage of MSM propaganda, the Catalan nationalist victory in the General Election is a wonderful triumph for the human spirit. Now you won’t hear that in the MSM.
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Editor’s note
Large states are cracking under the pressures of modernity. The absence of conventional war among developed nations also eliminates the need to belong to a large state (starting wars has not worked since 1648). Internally, the political coalitions that have ruled the developed nations since WWII are breaking up. This is not the decline of the nation-state. They are just breaking into smaller, more cohesive units.
The result is chaos (e.g., The Guardian acting as the mouthpiece of the British security services). It disrupts the neat narratives that journalists, Left and Right, have used for decades – so they ignore it. To learn about the action, look to fringe sources.
Murray’s post demonstrates that we must Prepare for the coming changes. Changes in everything.
About the author
Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He joined the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1984. His career culminated as British Ambassador to Uzbekistan 2002 to 2004. It ended when he criticized regime as repressive and using torture (both the American and British governments freaked out). Afterwards he was Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010. In 2016 the US government refused to allow him entry to the US.
See his articles at his website. See his bio. See his Wikipedia entry – he has led an extraordinary life.
One of Murray’s book is Sikunder Burnes: Master of the Great Game
“This is an astonishing true tale of espionage, journeys in disguise, secret messages, double agents, assassinations and sexual intrigue. Alexander Burnes was one of the most accomplished spies Britain ever produced and the main antagonist of the Great Game as Britain strove with Russia for control of Central Asia and the routes to the Raj.”
For More Information
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See Giles Tremlett’s article about Catalonia in the London Review of Books.
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Books about Catalonia
The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain
The classic: Homage to Catalonia
