{"id":32880,"date":"2017-10-19T15:49:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=32880"},"modified":"2017-10-19T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:51:40","slug":"obey-eu-austerity-diktats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=32880","title":{"rendered":"\u201e\u2026obey EU austerity diktats\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>But the imprisonment of two pro-Catalan independence leaders earlier this week indicates we are heading for serious trouble.<\/p>\n<p>What is important to understand now is that there is more than just blind nationalism in the Catalan impasse, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>despite what Madrid and Brussels want us to believe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Catalan call for independence should not be discredited; it is the rightful demand of millions of Catalans. But one must wonder why most articles about this crisis focus exclusively on the historical roots of Catalonian statehood, free citizens&#8217; democratic right to vote, and the inclusive character of Catalonia&#8217;s nationalism, which is open to foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>As noble as these historical and democratic arguments are, it is important to emphasise, as Owen Jones rightly pointed out, that &#8222;Catalonia cannot be understood in isolation. Here is another manifestation of the crisis enveloping the western world&#8221;. This is <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a crisis of governance in which citizens no longer trust their governments<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and governments have turned their backs on the people. Why?<\/ol>\n<p>Santiago Zabala \u201e<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/catalan-crisis-nationalism-171019101108496.html\"><strong>The Catalan crisis is not just about nationalism<\/strong><\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the imprisonment of two pro-Catalan independence leaders earlier this week indicates we are heading for serious trouble. What is important to understand now is that there is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2134,16],"tags":[5642,647,5562,5561,90,743,125,4128,5560,1153,5641,3136,2494,1951,2202,401],"class_list":["post-32880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sztuka-miesa","category-poglady","tag-al-jazeera","tag-brukselka","tag-cataluna","tag-catalunya","tag-centralizm-demokratyczny","tag-demokracja","tag-eu","tag-hollow-men","tag-katalonia","tag-korupcja","tag-madryt","tag-manekiny","tag-payola","tag-ue","tag-urzednicy","tag-xxi-wiek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32882,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880\/revisions\/32882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}