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Is the U.S. About to Move Its Strategic Naval Base from Spain to Morocco?

July 24, 2020

Located near the point where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea, close to Morocco, is the Spanish Naval Station Rota that is co-tenanted with the U.S. Navy. The issue for Washington t…

Will Brexit See Gibraltar’s Return to Spain with EU Support?

February 6, 2020

Opinion

The European Union plans to support Spain in its territorial claims on Gibraltar in the next round of Brexit negotiations that are expected to begin on March 3. The EU will give the Iberian count…

What is Happening in Spain?

December 2, 2019

Opinion

The transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain (1978) was carried out under conditions very favorable to the profoundly conservative forces that controlled the Spanish state and the majority o…

Is Democracy a Dying Species?

October 23, 2019

Opinion

What happens when democracy fails to deliver? What happens when people give up on democracy? What happens when a majority or militant minority decide that the constitutional rights of free speech, fre…

Must the West Beg the World for Forgiveness?

April 2, 2019

Opinion

As the Democratic Party quarrels over reparations for slavery, a new and related issue has arisen, raised by the president of Mexico. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has written Pope Francis I and King Fe…

CIA Blames Its Proxy for Its Raid on North Korea’s Embassy in Spain

March 16, 2019

Opinion

The CIA is the main suspect in the military style raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid. It now launched a somewhat hapless effort to deflect from it. The original Spanish report said: At least t…

Who Ordered the CIA to Assault North Korea’s Embassy in Spain?

March 15, 2019

Opinion

Did John Bolton, President Trump's national security advisor, order an assault on the North Korean embassy in Spain to get an advantage in the nuclear talks? On February 22 the embassy of the DPRK in …

Trump’s Sub-Saharan Border Wall Proposal Is More Than It Seems

October 5, 2018

Opinion

Trump supposedly made an imaginative suggestion to Spain that it build a wall across the Sahara desert to keep out illegal immigrants. The Spanish Foreign Minister revealed that the American President…