One of the biggest points I make in A History of America in Ten Strikes is that the success of a strike is often determined by the actions of a state. When corporations and the state combine to limit
I maintain that the most important thing to understand about Donald Trump is that he is a fucking moron. We have daily evidence of this, but here is some more. Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell c
Spain has resorted to violent state repression in the face of today’s referendum on Catalan independence. The latest from Reuters (at the time of writing) is that more than 760 people have been
The Guardian has been running an interesting set of stories on world cities. This one highlights Potosí, the Bolivian silver city I have been utterly fascinated by ever since visiting it in 2008. Pot
Remarkable: In the Appalachian foothills of western North Carolina, archaeologists have discovered remains of a 16th century fort deep in the interior of what is now the United States. The fort, the e
Meet SPS Almirante Juan de Bourbon. She is 6200 ton AEGIS frigate (more of a destroyer, really), capable of 29 knots and armed with SM-2 Standard surface-to-air missiles, Harpoon surface-to-surface mi
The earliest known ancestor of House Habsburg is a figure known as Guntram the Rich, who lived in 10th century Germany. Guntram’s grandson, Radbot, built Habsburg Castle in what is now the Swiss
Anyone know any good academic/policy oriented articles on Spanish security policy? Or, really, anything at all about Spanish security policy?