Category Archives: Law-Law Land

After 40 years, a victim of Franco’s Spain tells her story

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Lidia Falcón in an archival photo, likely taken before her seventh and final arrest under the Franco dictatorship. The leftist lawyer and feminist was falsely linked to a crime allegedly carried out by Basque separatists in Madrid in September 1974. … Continue reading →

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“Fifty Shades of Shit”: A German feminist’s heretical thoughts

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Sabina Becker

“No to the eroticization of sexual violence! Boycott Fifty Shades of Grey.” A sentiment I can heartily get behind. This article from Mira Sigel, of the German radical-anarcho-socialist-feminist blog, Die Störenfriedas, basically says it all for me, too: It’s February … Continue reading →

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Argentina: Stella Calloni on the Nisman case

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Further to yesterday’s debunker of the myths of the strange death of Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor supposedly investigating the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, here’s another hard look at what lies behind at all, courtesy of the redoubtable Stella Calloni: … Continue reading →

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The Nisman case: cui bono?

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Juan Gabriel Labaké seems an unlikely figure to have cracked not one but two infamous bombing cases in Argentina. But the lawyer, who represents a Syrian-Argentine accused in one of the crimes, has done just that. And not only that, … Continue reading →

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Prostitution ads: Lots of money in ’em, but for whom?

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Spanish prostitution ads from a large daily paper, many offering “Greek” (anal) and “French” (oral) sex, right up front. You know how we’re always hearing that print media are in trouble, that revenues are down, that they can’t afford quality … Continue reading →

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Non, je ne suis pas Charlie. And here’s why.

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, Mock on, ’tis all in vain. You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. — William Blake No, I am not Charlie Hebdo. I am not … Continue reading →

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El Narco’s deep doody

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Are you all fired up for the New Year, kiddies? I sure am. Especially since I know that someone is going to be facing the music and dancing then…on hot coals, natch: The information is surfacing and the circle is … Continue reading →

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When perverts become “victims”

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Sebastian Edathy, personifying chutzpah on Facebook. In English, no less. Right now, in Germany, there’s a huge scandal going on. A former parliamentarian, who resigned shortly before his home was raided by police, has been found to have bought and … Continue reading →

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Why the Marquis de Sade is nobody’s hero

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Detail from “The Martyrdom of St. Barbara”, by Jean Bellegambe, 1528. Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai. What gives with the idea that a notorious 18th-century aristocratic sociopath — a chronic, pathological liar who ruthlessly took full advantage of his high … Continue reading →

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So, THIS happened.

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Cuban students celebrating the release of the remaining three members of the Cuban Five — Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero — who were freed and arrived on the island today. They are now with their families, and according … Continue reading →