by Don Quijones • • Comments Off on Spanish Judge Crosses Line by Sending Bank CEO to Jail
By Don Quijones: The Spanish magistrate Elpidio Silva is just about the only judge in the Western hemisphere to have sent the CEO of a bailed-out too-big-to-fail bank to jail. Turns out, that was huge mistake.
by Don Quijones • • Comments Off on Mutiny of the Lab Rats: Europeans Grow Weary of EU Experiment
By Don Quijones: Europeans are pushing back against the EU Super State. Tired of being treated as lab rats in a dysfunctional economic and political experiment, a large minority will vote for euroskeptic parties in the nearing European elections.
by Don Quijones • • Comments Off on Liars, Damned Liars, and Spanish Banks
By Don Quijones: “Spain’s banks are back on track,” the Spanish Banking Association announced to great fanfare. That’s the official story. But these banks reported financial results that “bear no relation to reality.”
by Don Quijones • • Comments Off on Seed Wars: Latin America Strikes Back Against Monsanto
By Don Quijones: With more back channels and revolving doors to governments around the world, Monsanto is used to getting its way. But now it faces an outright rebellion.
by Don Quijones • • Comments Off on “Uncreative” Destruction: The Troika’s Hostile Takeover of Europe
By Don Quijones: The story is now playing out across Europe’s bailed-out nations. The losers are by and large the poor and middle classes, while the beneficiaries are the same as always: the world’s largest multinational corporations and banks.
by Don Quijones • • Comments Off on Another Day, Another Political Scandal In Spain’s ‘Mafia State’
By Don Quijones: Political corruption has already become synonymous with political leadership in Spain. But now there’s a spectacle of political hubris and impunity so farcical and obscene that it leaves no doubt in one’s mind: Spain is run by a mafia state!
by Don Quijones • • Comments Off on Peaceful Indignation Turns to Violent Rage in Rajoy’s Spain
By Don Quijones: It was the first nationally coordinated grassroots response to repressive social and economic policies and widespread corruption of Spain’s ruling political caste. But it descended into violence– as the government is playing a dangerous game.
by Don Quijones • • Comments Off on Which Country Is Europe’s Biggest Narco State?
By Don Quijones: Revelations of a dirty, big business in Europe, and of the role banks play to make it possible. In fact, during the financial crisis, European banks “were as good as saved by the global drug trade.”
by Don Quijones • • Comments Off on Jitters Mount Over Prospect of Catalonian Independence
“You’re making a grave mistake,” the CEO of Catalonia’s megabank La Caixa allegedly told Catalonian President Artur Mas. Like many big shots, he’s fretting over the prospect of independence from Spain – an existential threat to the region’s banks.
