Texas lawmakers cracked down on a pro-Palestinian art exhibit. There was a better answer
A group of Texas lawmakers cracked down on a pro-Palestinian art installation at the University of North Texas. The exhibit ...
Agence France-Presse on MSN18h
Calls for defence spending spree raise hackles in Spain
Spain's leftist government, proportionally NATO's smallest spender on defence, faces political and popular resistance as it ...
The Economist10h
Spain’s terrible record on defence spending
“S PAIN is very low,” Donald Trump said last month, referring to the country’s defence spending. For once, he was correct ...
EL PAÍS English11d
Julián Casanova, historian: ‘The good things Franco did were done by democracies without torture or death sentences’
The professor of contemporary history has published a new biography of the dictator, a solid portrait that covers everything ...
Jacobin on MSN1d
A Museum Worthy of Spain’s Democratic Transition
Twentieth-century Spain could boast of world-leading artists from Salvador Dalí to Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. Yet ...
PBS2mon
Francisco Franco
Learn how Francisco Franco used the tactics of colonial war to win control of Spain. Driven by a deeply conservative vision, he used torture, murder and incarceration to transform Spanish Society.
The World from PRX10d
Remembering Franco — and the dangers of fascism — 50 years later
Españoles, Franco ha muerto.” With that announcement, in 1975, the people of Spain learned that Francisco Franco, the general-turned-dictator, had died. He’d been at the helm of an authoritarian ...
MercoPress11y
UN recommends Spain to overturn 1977 amnesty law that ‘forgets’ Franco’s era crimes
Hundreds of thousands died or disappeared during Spain's civil war and Franco’s subsequent 36-year dictatorship United Nations has called for Spain to overturn a 1977 amnesty law that pardons ...
Mother Jones24d
Trump Cabinet Officials Embrace Far-Right Influencer Who Has Praised Fascists
As examples of those who successfully fought against “unhumans,” they cited Francisco Franco, Spain’s fascist tyrant, and Augusto Pinochet, Chile’s fascist despot. These two men each led a ...