Author Archive for Sebastiaan Faber

Garzón: “I am the last of Franco’s exiles”

August 6, 2012
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Garzón: “I am the last of Franco’s exiles”

In a long interview with Natalia Junquera in El País six months after his disbarment, Judge Baltasar Garzón opens up about his work with Julian Assange, his determination to fight the Supreme Court decision ending his career, his work in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador, Argentina, and Seattle, and the foundation he started...
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NYT profiles Spanish scientist using DNA to find missing children

August 4, 2012
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Suzanne Daley, writing for the New York Times, profiles José A. Lorente, a Spanish expert in forensic genetics whose work has helped families worldwide find their missing children:

He has made headlines around the world helping to identify the remains of Christopher Columbus and Simón Bolívar, and bodies found in mass graves...
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Remembering Michael Nash (1946-2012)

August 4, 2012
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Remembering Michael Nash (1946-2012)

Norman Markowitz, writing for People's World, mourns the death of his long-time friend Mike Nash, the director of the Tamiment Library who passed away unexpectedly late last month: The son of New York City school teachers - his father a victim of the post World War II firings and blacklisting, his mother a trade...
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Ratner: Assange is right to fear US prosecution

August 3, 2012
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In an op-ed for The Guardian, Michael Ratner wrote yesterday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whom he represents, is right to fear prosecution in the United States once he has been indicted from the United Kingdom to Sweden in relation to a case of alleged sexual misconduct. "There are several unambiguous signs that...
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The Nation covers WikiLeaks fallout in Latin America

August 1, 2012
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The current issue of The Nation, guest-edited by Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archive, investigates the impact in Latin America of Cablegate, the biggest leak of documents in US history. With contributions by Kornbluh (Latin America After Cablegate: What Changed?), Blanche Petrich Moreno (WikiLeaks and the War...
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Alexander Cockburn (1941-2012)

July 28, 2012
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Alexander Cockburn (1941-2012)

Earlier this month, journalism mourned the death of the radical British journalist Alexander Cockburn, son of the journalist and Spanish Civil War veteran Claud Cockburn, aka Frank Pitcairn (1904-1981). Among the many obituaries, The Nation's Victor Navasky writes:
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John “Tito” Gerassi (1931-2012)

July 28, 2012
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John “Tito” Gerassi (1931-2012)

In the wake of the untimely deaths of Alexander Cockburn and Michael Nash, we are sad to report the passing of John "Tito" Gerassi, author, journalist, historian, and son of Spanish Civil War veteran Fernando Gerassi, the last Republican commander of Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War.

Gerassi received his MA at Columbia University...
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Garzón joins Assange defense team

July 24, 2012
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Garzón joins Assange defense team

Judge Baltasar Garzón, winner of the 2011 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism, will be joining the defense team of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks who, faced with extradition to Sweden, has sought refuge in the London embassy of Ecuador. Garzón will be working alongside Michael Ratner, of the Center for Constitutional...
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Video of London IB commemoration

July 21, 2012
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Video of London IB commemoration

Now online as part of the IBMT’s YouTube channel: a video report of the July 7 ceremony in Jubilee Gardens, London, to commemorate the 2,500 members of the International Brigades from Britain and Ireland. The footage includes images of Spanish Civil War veteran David Lomon, 93, unveiling a new plaque to honor the volunteers....
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Amy Goodman on Guernica, 75 years later

July 20, 2012
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Amy Goodman on Guernica, 75 years later

Amy Goodman at Democracy Now!, on the lessons of the bombing:

Seventy-five years ago, the Spanish town of Guernica was bombed into rubble. The brutal act propelled one of the world’s greatest artists into a three-week painting frenzy. Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” starkly depicts the horrors of war, etched into the faces of...
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