Essays in English on Catalan Independence and Spanish Politics
“The Catalan Crisis Threatens to Reopen a Debate that the EU's Power Brokers Thought They Had Long Ago Quashed” Village (Ireland) 23 January 2020. https://villagemagazine.ie/the-catalan-crisis-threatens-to-reopen-a-debate-that-the-eus-power-brokers-thought-they-had-long-ago-quashed/
“The Catalan Crisis Threatens to Reopen a Debate that the EU's Power Brokers Thought They Had Long Ago Quashed” Counterpunch 23 January 2020 https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/23/the-catalan-crisis-threatens-to-reopen-a-debate-that-the-eus-power-brokers-thought-they-had-long-ago-quashed/
“The Catalan Crisis Threatens To Reopen a Debate That the EUs Power Brokers Thought They Had Long Ago Quashed” Antiwar.com 22 January 2020. https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2020/01/22/the-catalan-crisis-threatens-to-reopen-a-debate-that-the-eus-power-brokers-thought-they-had-long-ago-quashed/
“Interview: The Embattled Catalan President” Consortium News 15 January 2020 https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/15/interview-the-embattled-catalan-president/
“An Interview with Embattled Catalan President Quim Torra” Counterpunch 14 January 2020 https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/14/an-interview-with-embattled-catalan-president-quim-torra/
“An Interview with Embattled Catalan President Quim Torra” Antiwar.com 6 January 2020 < https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2020/01/06/an-interview-with-embattled-catalan-president-quim-torra/>
“Catalan President: Catalonia’s Crisis Is Problem of Democracy” The Globe Post 6 January 2020 https://theglobepost.com/2020/01/06/catalonia-president-interview/
“Combat in the Service of Hope: Thomas Harrington Interviews Quim Torra, President of the Government of Catalonia” Village: Ireland’s Political and Cultural Magazine (December 2019-January 2020) 73-75 (print version)
Unabridged internet version: https://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2020/01/18614/
“The Catalan Leadership Is Serious About Independence” Antiwar.com 2 December 2019 < https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2019/12/01/the-catalan-leadership-is-serious-about-independence/>
“Let’s Give Three Cheers for Those Western Ears” Counterpunch 20 November 2019 https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/20/lets-give-three-cheers-for-those-western-ears/
“Hong Kong Their Head-Bashers….and ‘Ours’”. Counterpunch 27 August 2019. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/27/hong-kong-their-head-bashers-and-ours/
“Their Head-Bashers – and ‘Ours’: Hong Kong vs. Catalonia” Antiwar.com 27 August 2019. https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2019/08/26/their-head-bashers-and-ours/
“An interview with exiled Catalan President Carles Puigdemont” Village: Ireland’s Political and Cultural Magazine 22 May 2019 < https://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2019/05/an-interview-with-exiled-catalan-president-carles-puigdemont/>
“Elections in Spain: Regime Maintenance Disguised as Democratic Vitality” The Globe Post 6 May 2019. https://theglobepost.com/2019/05/05/spain-regime-maintenance/
“Elections in Spain: Regime Maintenance Disguised as Democratic Vitality and the Possibility of Change” Counterpunch 3 May 2019. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/03/elections-in-spain-regime-maintenance-disguised-as-democratic-vitality-and-the-possibility-of-change/
Two-part, 9000-word interview of Exiled Catalan President Carles Puigdement was published at Salon on 11 March and 17 March 2019.
“The Ghosts of Chauncey Gardner and Francisco Franco at the Trials of the Catalan Independentists in Madrid” Counterpunch 27 February 2019. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/27/the-ghosts-of-chauncey-gardner-and-francisco-franco-at-the-trials-of-the-catalan-independentists-in-madrid/
“The Ghosts of Chauncey Gardner and Francisco Franco at the Trials of the Catalan Independentists in Madrid” Antiwar.com 26 February 2019 < https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2019/02/25/the-ghosts-of-chauncey-gardner-and-francisco-franco-at-the-trials-of-the-catalan-independentists-in-madrid/>
“Catalan Separatists on Trial Pay Price for Spain’s Crude Transition to Democracy” Globe Post 25 February 2019 < https://theglobepost.com/2019/02/25/catalan-trial-spain-democracy/>
“On Legal Codes, Mistrust, and Moral Legitimacy” The Catalan Voice 15 December 2018. < https://thecatalanvoice.blogspot.com/>
“The Unionists in Catalonia Turn to the Latin American Coup Playbook” The Catalan Voice 15 August 2018. < http://thecatalanvoice.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-unionists-in-catalonia-turn-to.html>
“The Establishment’s “Controversialization” of the President of Catalonia Vilaweb English 18 May 2018 < https://english.vilaweb.cat/noticies/the-establishments-controversialization-of-the-president-of-catalonia/>
“Professor Marlene Wind: Symbol of a Smug Denmark and a Power-Serving Academic Discipline” The Catalan Voice 28 January 2018. < http://thecatalanvoice.blogspot.com/>
“What Nerve! In Catalonia They Are Once Again Trying to Swear in the Coalition that Won the Most Votes” Counterpunch 19 January 2018. https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/19/what-nerve-in-catalonia-they-are-once-again-trying-to-swear-in-the-coalition-that-won-the-most-votes/
“What Nerve! Catalonians Trying to Swear in the Coalition That Won the Most Votes” Antiwar.com 19 January 2018. https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2018/01/18/nerve-catalonians-trying-swear-coalition-won-votes/
“Big Media Dismisses Catalonia Vote” Cold Type 152 (Late January 2018 Issue) 25-29. http://www.coldtype.net/Assets18/pdf/ColdType152.midJan2018.pdf
“Big Media on Last Thursday’s Vote in Catalonia: “Never Mind” Counterpunch 27 December 2017 < https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/27/big-media-on-last-thursdays-vote-in-catalonia-never-mind/>
“Never Mind: Big Media and the Catalonia Vote” Antiwar.com 27 December 2017 < http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2017/12/26/never-mind-big-media-catalonia-vote/>
“Catalonia and the Art of Differential Diagnosis” Antiwar.com 15 November 2017 http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2017/11/14/catalonia-art-differential-diagnosis/
“Catalonia and the Art of Differential Diagnosis” Counterpunch 14 November 2017 <https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/14/catalonia-and-the-art-of-differential-diagnosis/>
“Mario Vargas Llosa Is the Perfect Poster Boy for Spanish Unionism” Ara English edition (Barcelona) 15 October 2017 http://www.ara.cat/en/Vargas-Perfect-Poster-Spanish-Unionism_0_1889811222.html
“The Baseless Myth of the Poor, Propagandized Catalans” Counterpunch 15 October 2017 https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/16/the-baseless-myth-of-the-poor-propagandized-catalans/
“The Baseless Myth of the Poor, Propagandized Catalans” Antiwar.com 13 October 2017. < https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2017/10/13/the-baseless-myth-of-the-poor-propagandized-catalans/>
“Mario Vargas Llosa Is the Perfect Poster Boy for Spanish Unionism” Antiwar.com 11 October 2017 https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2017/10/11/mario-vargas-llosa-is-the-perfect-poster-boy-for-spanish-unionism/
“The Disingenuousness of the ‘Procedural Irregularities’ Position Against Catalan Independence” Counterpunch 9 October 2017. https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/09/the-disingenuousness-of-the-procedural-irregularities-position-against-catalan-independence/
“Last Sunday In Catalonia: Pirates 1, The Invincible Armada 0” Counterpunch 6 October 2017 https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/06/last-sunday-in-catalonia-pirates-1-the-invincible-armada-0/
“Last Sunday In Catalonia: Pirates 1, The Invincible Armada 0 Antiwar.com 5 October 2017 http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2017/10/04/last-sunday-catalonia-pirates-1-invincible-armada-0/
“Last Sunday In Catalonia: Pirates 1, The Invincible Armada 0” Common Dreams 5 October 2017. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/10/05/last-sunday-catalonia-pirates-1-invincible-armada-0
“The Disingenuousness of the ‘Procedural Irregularities’ Position Against Catalan Independence” Antiwar.com 5 October 2017 Ara English Edition (Barcelona) http://www.ara.cat/en/Disingenuousness-Procedural-Irregularities-Against-Independence_0_1882011972.html
“The Disingenuousness of the ‘Procedural Irregularities’ Position Against Catalan Independence” Antiwar.com 5 October 2017 < https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2017/10/05/the-disingenuousness-of-the-procedural-irregularities-position-against-catalan-independence/
Translator of article written by Vicent Partal, “Proud to be an Agent of Catalan Sedition” Counterpunch 25 September 2017 < https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/25/proud-to-be-an-agent-of-catalonian-sedition/>
Translator of article written by Vicent Partal “In Catalonia, Proud To Be an Agent of Sedition” Antiwar.com 25 September 2017 <http://original.antiwar.com/Vicent_Partal/2017/09/24/catalonia-proud-agent-sedition/>
“The Catalan Coup Chronicles 24 September 2017: The Catalans Keep On Keepin’ On” Antiwar.com 24 September 2017 < https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2017/09/24/the-catalan-coup-chronicles-24-september-2017-the-catalans-keep-on-keepin-on/>
“Largest Newspaper in Spain Blames Russia and Antiwar.com for Catalonia Pro-Independence News” Antiwar.com 23 September 2017 < https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2017/09/23/largest-newspaper-in-spain-blames-russia-and-antiwar-com-for-catalonia-pro-independence-news/>
“Catalonia: Spanish Centralism or Self-Defeating Hubris of the Authoritarian Mind?Antiwar.com 23 September 2017 < http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2017/09/22/catalonia-self-defeating-hubris-authoritarian-mind/>
“Spanish Centralism or the Self-Defeating Hubris of the Authoritarian Mind” Common Dreams 23 September 2017 < https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/23/spanish-centralism-or-self-defeating-hubris-authoritarian-mind>
“Urgent: Forced Takeover of Catalan Government Institutions by Spanish Police” Common Dreams 20 September 2017 < https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/20/urgent-forced-takeover-catalan-government-institutions-spanish-police>
“Forced Takeover of Catalan Government Institutions by Spanish Police” Counterpunch 20 September 2017 < https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/20/forced-takeover-of-catalan-government-institutions-by-spanish-police/>
Breaking: Forced Takeover of Catalan Government Institutions by Spanish Police Ahead of Oct. 1 Vote” Antiwar.com 20 September 2017 https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2017/09/20/breaking-forced-takeover-of-catalan-government-institutions-by-spanish-police-ahead-of-oct-1-vote/
Translator of article written by Vicent Partal Catalonia: “Five Things to Remember about Catalonia” Antiwar.com 19 September 2017 http://original.antiwar.com/vicent_partal/2017/09/18/five-things-remember-catalonia/
Translator of article written by Vicent Partal “Catalonia: Do the Unionists Really Think They Can Give Us Lessons in Democracy?” ” Counterpunch 12 September 2017 < https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/12/catalonia-do-the-unionists-really-think-they-can-give-us-lessons-in-democracy/>
Translator of article written by Vicent Partal Catalonia: “Five Things to Remember about Catalonia” Counterpunch 8 September 2017 < https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/08/five-things-to-remember-about-catalonia/>
“The Rocky Road to Independence: An Interview With Catalan Independence Leader Artur Mas” ColdType 129 (Early December 2016 Issue) 44-48 < https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/ct129.december2016>
“The Politics of Attrition. How Spain’s Corrupt People’s Party Stays Afloat” Commonweal 13 July 2016 < https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/politics-attrition>
“If a Million People March for Catalan Independence in Barcelona, Do They Make Noise?” Common Dreams 23 September 2012 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/23-1
“Catalonia’s Shouts for Freedom: If a Million People March for Catalan Independence in Barcelona, Do They Make Noise?” Counterpunch 17 September 2012 http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/17/catalonias-shouts-for-freedom/