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Nothing impresses more than the current European leadership's inexhaustible capacity to humiliate themselves so as to retain the right to be Trump's vassal... ft.com/content/ce9eb7…

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Israeli arms firm Elbit lobbied the Home Office for a retrial after the courts dismiss criminal charges against Palestine Action co-founders declassifieduk.org/israeli-arms-f…

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counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… Thanks CounterPunch Jeffrey St. Clair "Francesc Pi i Margall isn’t a name that appears often in discussions and breast-beating about the breakdown of the liberal international liberal order."

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… Las nacionalidades is "politically fresh, commonsensical, and more relevant today than it was at the time it was written... grappling with the age-old principles of authority and liberty, and the relationship between obedient faith and free reason."

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… "how can we get back to this kind of sensible, constructive political thinking, focused less on what went wrong, but how to create a system that’s better for everyone? Reading Pi i Margall is a good start."

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… "The basic, of course Eurocentric, idea of Pi and Proudhon is that the inescapably opposed principles of authority and liberty lead to two irreconcilable regimes, absolutist or authoritarian, and liberal."

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… "Another aspect...is that what’s happening in the world is unbearable to think about, and drugs, a big part of the offending system (the industry represented USD 2,295 billion in GDP in 2022, up by 25% compared to 2017), are the fix for the anxiety"

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… "Gen Z statistics from the US show that 34% take prescription medication, 19% self-medicate, and nearly half (46%) have... mental health problems. A Harvard Medical School study states the obvious: depression blunts the ability to think."

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… "the American psychiatrist tasked with assessing Goering’s mental state...concluded, the Holocaust and all the monstrous crimes were committed by men with healthy minds. But this begs the question of how minds can be healthy in a grotesquely sick system."

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… "With mindless tweeted ascription as the norm, citizens who are less and less able to think can be pushed to lack of concern about crimes like genocide and ecocide, and even to kill or die in defence of what they are made to believe is their way of life."

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… "largely unregulated automated tools reflect and heighten the unfairness, so “algorithmic bias” is blamed when governments target the most marginal groups of society...Serbia has introduced a semi-automated social welfare system that excludes thousands..."

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… Pi i Margall "Not the best qualified but the most swashbuckling citizens usually rule. The most vice-ridden men frequently climb to occupy the most powerful positions of the state"

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… "Pi must have been one of the few European thinkers of his times who recognised the right of Indigenous peoples to live as they choose, in harmony with their surroundings."

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… In "Federated systems as they exist in neoliberalism, ... self-determination is understood as being within the system and, since Indigenous peoples resist the system and its despoliation, their ascription is that of “enemy”, fit for extermination."

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… "Pi i Margall’s federalism is the result of a moral set of principles and values, seeking to ensure collective rule of all ethnic, cultural and linguistic groups as well as nationalities, to end the dominance of any one community over the state"

"Pi i Margall’s federalism is the result of a moral set of principles and values, seeking to ... let all communities enjoy proportional rights over resources. In this sense, he anticipated universalism as the foundation of human rights theory." counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old…

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… Pi iu Margall "without respect for the laws, the greatest states go into decline, as their wisest institutions become corrupted and sterile and liberty and rule of law perish in the same wreck.... societies stagnate and become degraded"

counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/old… "Nowadays, many people dismiss the idea of universal human rights as utopian, but in Las nacionalidades, Pi i Margall shows how an international system that respects the human rights of all persons and peoples can quite easily be organised."