Actuality | Non-fiction

Sovereignty cannot be negotiated
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Of Adriano Segatori
Sovereignty cannot be negotiated
Source: Italicum
Sovereignty – this one with a capital S – is first and foremost a mental conception, a psychological attitude, a true spiritual style.
A characteristic of man is to talk about what no longer exists, and health is the most striking example of this. When people meet, they don't report good blood pressure data or the regularity of their bowel movements, but they list flaws, various annoyances and disorders. The exact same mechanism is in place for other issues that concern personal and collective life.
There has been rant about family and education ever since the family was decimated by individualistic selfishness and the exercise of the most disparate vicious rights, and education has been excommunicated by the exaltation of spontaneity and uncontrolled independence. Dozens of authorizations are required and school photos are prohibited in the name of privacy since everyone posts the most obscene revelations of their physical and mental life on social networks. We talk too much about freedom and democracy when houses are transformed into forts and the life of citizens is forced between cameras, grates and armored doors.
In short, the real void is always filled by an imaginary surrogate: it is the law of nature. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

How beautiful, the enemy has returned
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Of Claudio Risé
How beautiful, the enemy has returned
Source: Claudio Risé
Breathe fresh air. The words prove it: those repeated to the point of exhaustion decay and to the general amazement old ones return. Drier, irritating, but perhaps even truer. For example, the word enemy is back in vogue, said so, without much fuss. As Donald Trump did from Helsinki, before the meeting with Vladimir Putin, when in an interview with American television CBS he said: “I think the European Union is an enemy. You wouldn't believe it, but Europeans are enemies”. The statement is not presented as a personal matter, even if the large inflated puppet with a Trump-infant with diaper and cell phone in hand, hoisted into the sky for 16 thousand pounds in front of the Parliament in London with the blessing of the mayor Sadiq Khan will certainly have had his part in the matter, as well as the anti-Donald marches in the streets of Helsinki from where the President gave the interview. But Trump reassures: enemies exist, it's not a scandal, nor anything new. On the contrary: “It doesn't mean they're bad.", continued the US president. “It means they are competing with us”. Here again is the child with his scandalous cry that is changing the world: the King is naked.
We are not all friends. But let's not make it a tragedy. It was the story they told us before that was a farce. The displeased European establishment then immediately intervenes with heartfelt denials and firm condemnations, as per the script: the President of the EU Council, Donald Tusk assures us that no! “The US and the EU are excellent friends! Anyone who says they are enemies spreads fake news”, brandishing the most used and worn cliché of the moment to try to fix everything. In reality the fake news, lasted far too long, it's the one that: “we are all friends”. The absolute novelty is the great return of the linguistic category, affective and cognitive of the friend-enemy, which has always presided over human life, to relationships between people, and of course also between states. Well yes: It's true that we don't always love each other; but there's nothing wrong with that and there's no need to make a big deal out of it. Generally, as Puer Robustus says Donald Trump is simply because “we are competing”: better to admit it, rather than cheating the cards. Read More

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Culture | Non-fiction

Guareschi, del '68 se ne fece un baffo
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Of Marcello Veneziani

Like today (yesterday for those reading, n.d.r.), fifty years ago, in the fateful '68, he went to the other world Giovannino Guareschi. He left the small world that few had described, to reach the big world, the one where that Lord lived who in his House gave advice to one of his fiery dependents on earth, Don Camillo. At least that's what Guareschi says.

He left early, Giovannino, a 60 years, after a troubled life, between concentration camp, prison under fascism and anti-fascism, plus a host of books translated all over the world, of very popular films that represented that fabulous post-war Italy, and adventures in the press, like his impertinent Candide who played a decisive role in the defeat of the social-communist popular front in the 1948 elections.
Giovannino died on 22 July '68 but he had time to write his last Don Camillo dedicated to today's young people. The book was released posthumously and marked the striking contrast between the old communist Peppone (that the anti-communist Guareschi had made sympathetic with his irrepressible humanity), the tough Don Camillo and a young, beardless protester, who was traveling on a motorbike with studded and fringed bags and a black jacket with a skull and the words "Veleno". Which becomes the boy's nickname for Guareschi and also the metaphor of the protest. "The Chinese" also arrive in the town of Brescello and upset the ideological geometries of the Italian-Stalinist Peppone and also displace the religious ones of the parish priest. Guareschi links the protest to the advent of the consumer societyi. For him the antagonism between the two phenomena is only occasional, related, not substantial. Consumerism devours the small ancient world and the old faiths, but he catches Peppone who leaves his bike and rides in a red spider. Consumerism is the habitat of 1968. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

Sovereignists at the crossroads between "light" Europe and the Trump option
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of the Prof. Paolo Becchi on Libero, 20/07/2018
Juncker's image, President of the European Commission, visibly altered and staggering during the last NATO summit, it represents what Europe currently is better than anything else. The Franco-German axis, of which Juncker is the expression, he's in a coma, non-ethyl, but still in a coma.
The Visegrad Group of countries interacts with the United States,and the United States has openly declared support for Brexit, war on the EU and support for all those countries like ours that have taken on a Eurosceptic orientation with the new government. Let's say it clearly: Trump's policy is not at all "isolationist", as it seemed from the election campaign. American foreign policy is completely back under neocon control. Trump now clearly aims to disaggregate Europe, because it fears not only the economic but also the political growth of Germany. Perhaps it is no coincidence that Bannon is in Italy so often in recent months, on Trump's "exploratory mandate" or in his own interest, it doesn't matter. Trump is revealing the true face of his current administration: to all intents and purposes it continues to exercise that imperial role that the United States has had since the post-war period and which after the fall of the Berlin Wall, for a few years, they practiced on their own. Right, now there is Putin's Russia again, and also China, that move on the international stage, but Europe?
Ecco, Trump's strategy is evident: aim for the disintegration of Europe by helping all those populist movements, sovereignists who are succeeding in Europe. Here a big problem arises for Europe and for our country in Europe. Italy is faced with two possible paths: deal a heavy blow to the now weakened Franco-German hegemony, taking advantage of Trump's support, but in this case running the risk of becoming the "Atlantic bridgehead" on the old continent. Free from European constraints, but subjects once again of the American Empire? Read More

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Catholicism | Non-fiction

St. Thomas: it is demonstrated by nature that all power comes from God
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The care of Di Pietro Carlo
PRINCIPAL OF THE GOVERNMENT
• As the book of Proverbs says: «The king's heart is in the hands of God; to everything he wants, He bends it". And the famous great monarch of the East also confesses this, Ciro, King of the Persians, with a public edict. In fact after defeating Babylon, which he had razed to the ground, as the story goes, said these words, as appears at the beginning of the Book of Ezra: «Thus says Cyrus, King of the Persians: – The Lord, the God of heaven, he has given me all the kingdoms of the earth". From this it is evident that all dominion comes from God as from the first lord: something that can be demonstrated, as Aristotle mentions, through three ways, that is, considering it as an entity, as an engine, as an end.
• Under the aspect of an entity: because all the individual entities must be traced back to the first entity, as at the beginning of every entity, just as all heat must be traced back to the heat of fire, according to Aristotle's explanations in the second book of the Metaphysics. So, for the same reason that every entity depends on the first entity, dominion will also depend on him; since it is based on being; and on an even more noble entity, How much, to dominate over men of equal nature, a man is placed before them. But from this one must not draw reason to be proud, but rather to govern his people with humanity, as Seneca says in a letter to Lucilius. This is why it is written in Ecclesiasticus: «They made you boss? Don't show pride: be among them as one of them". Therefore, as every entity depends on the first entity, which is the primary cause, so also every dominion of the creature depends on God as the first dominant and first being.
• Moreover: every plurality proceeds from the one, and is measured with unity, as the tenth book of Aristotle's First Philosophy teaches; therefore in the same way the plurality of dominants also originates from a single dominant, which is God. Precisely as in the royal court we find the respective superintendents for the various tasks, but they all depend on one, that is, by the king. Therefore Aristotle in the twelfth book of First Philosophy says that «God, that is, the first cause, he is to the entire universe as the commander, on which all the multiplicity of camps depends, it's up to the army". Therefore Moses in Exodus also calls God the leader of the people: «In your mercy – dice – you made yourself leader of the people you liberated". Therefore every dominion originates from God. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

La sfida sociale ha bisogno di "pensieri lunghi"
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Of Mario Bozzi Trails
La sfida sociale ha bisogno di "pensieri lunghi"
Source: Mario Bozzi Trails
Long thoughts are needed. Left and right. Long thoughts on which to underpin the processes of change, political and social. Long thoughts that are the exact opposite of old ideological visions, of the rigid (and unrealistic) nineteenth-century style “posters”.. Above all, there is a need for renewed representative tools, able to give voice to the concrete needs of society, projecting them onto broader scenarios. In this context, the role of trade unions needs to be rethought. It's a topic these days. And it is a crucial theme that does not allow ambiguity.
When the Minister for Economic Development and Labour, Luigi Di Maio, raises the question of union representation, with the idea of ​​"stimulating an updating process", what does he mean ? He wants to continue pursuing the paths of delegitimization of the trade union world, carry on, in recent years by the government left, or hypothesize other working hypotheses ? Does it intend to support the old conflictual logics or look at more organic participatory solutions ?
While waiting to understand the orientations of the Minister and more generally of the current executive, it does not seem trivial to relaunch the topic of co-management, in its broadest and most complete meaning. Read More

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The adventure of a poor Christian
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Image results for FontamaraOf Roberto PECCHIOLI
The adventure of a poor Christian was Ignazio Silone's last literary work, the author of Fontamara. Exit with great success in the fateful 1968, recounts the convulsive Roman and Neapolitan months of Pietro di Morrone, the monk who ascended to the papacy in 1294 with the name of Celestine V after infighting of a corrupt church, returned after a few months to his hermitage in the Maiella mountains following the abdication that Dante called "the great refusal". Silone intended to represent the opposition between the individual and the Church in his fellow countryman Abruzzo, even more so the irreducible gap between the honest man and power.
Following the paths of disarmed Catholicism has become the daily adventure of poor Christians. We believed that nothing could surprise us more than what comes out of the mouths of members of the hierarchy, but we were wrong. In recent weeks, two significant episodes have caused new disturbance and renewed dismay. The first is the phone call between Gianni Vattimo, marxist philosopher, proclaimed homosexual, standard bearer of postmodern nihilism in the insidious form of so-called weak thought, and the tenant of Santa Marta Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Between the two, whose approach was perhaps favored by the class's common condition as conscripts 1936, the most concrete was the Turin thinker, which, according to the reconstructions, he would have proposed to his successor (or better, to the impostor, n.d.r.) of Pietro to put himself at the head of a sort of international against the excessive power of money. Vast programme, commendable and widely shareable, but certainly distant from the religious mission. Read More

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The last hour! World War III is finally over!
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Of DMITRY ORLOV
cluborlov.blogspot.com
Unknown to most, World War III raged, until now, for almost thirty years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It was preceded by the Cold War, which ended when Mikhail Gorbachev surrendered to the West, with the consequent, confused, dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. Despite this capitulation, the West had never abandoned its plan to destroy the Warsaw Pact, along with what remained of the former Soviet Union, and then conquer and dismember Russia itself. In the absence of military threats from the east, NATO, along with its parasitic twin, the European Union, it had incessantly expanded eastward, swallowing one nation after another. So far it has conquered the entire Warsaw Pact, plus Moldova and the three Baltic States and is hunting for the last crumbs of the former Soviet Union: Ukraine, Georgia ed Armenia. The reason why no one in the West realized that, all this time, there was World War III is that the West suffered a profound mental collapse, as serious as the physical collapse of the URRS. Russia has recovered from its collapse, the West, probably, he never will.
Even if the West pretends to fight Russia, this is pure fantasy. Russia's defensive capabilities are such that a military strategy against it is not even plannable. Russian military doctrine states that no war will ever be fought on Russian soil again: if it were to be invaded, it would immediately transfer the fighting to enemy territory using its long-range weapons, equipped with a radius of action that includes the entire world. He also specifies that he will respond to any existential threat using atomic weapons, if necessary. And so does the Pentagon, with NATO in tow, he no longer even dreams of attacking Russia. This hope, at some point, had returned to life when the US believed it was possible to eliminate Russia's nuclear deterrent capability using a nuclear "first strike", ma, Since then Russia has rearmed itself with more advanced weapons than it possesses, current or future, of the United States and so that dream is now dead. Read More

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Fuori l'Europa, inside Putin: so Trump shuffles the cards
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Outside Europe, inside Putin: this is how Trump changed the world (and he got into trouble)

Angry reactions in the US after the Trump-Putin meeting. And it's understandable. The Helsinki summit marks a huge change, already in place, for world balance. The USA is no longer anyone's friend and runs alone. And for Europe and the Atlanticists it is not a good moment. (Of Fulvio Echelon, LAWS)

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Berlusconi achieved sixty-eight?
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Of Roberto Pecchioli
Berlusconi achieved sixty-eight?
Source: Heretically
The small bookstores and street bouquinistes are precious. Old editions can be found from them, books that were thought to be out of print, authors and texts from small publishers, garrison of freedom. Visiting a bookshop in the historic center of a small town we came across a little book of a few pages written in 2011 by the philosopher and art historian Mario Perniola, passed away recently. The title is intriguing, The text is interesting and can be read in one go: Berlusconi or '68 realized...
The thesis of the intellectual from Asti is that the Knight would be proof of the success of the anthropological revolution triggered by the ideas, Parisian and Californian, of the 1968. Strange indeed that the heterodox positions of a few thinkers are considered reactionary, together with powerful but isolated voices accused of "Rossobrunism" (Costanzo Preve) are accepted in some way, or at least revisited, by a figure like that of Perniola. Already a left-wing extremist, close to the Situationist International in his youth until his personal friendship with Guy Debord, subsequently historian and philosopher of art on very critical positions of post modernity, enemy of “weak thinking”, protagonist of heated controversies with Gianni Vattimo, presents a surprising thesis and not without a certain charm. The knight of Arcore would be, in the vision of Luigi Pareyson's student, the one who achieved what 1968 had supported.
As an insider of the movement (Perniola was born in 1941 and began to intervene in the cultural debate in the mid-1950s 60) he sees in the figure of Berlusconi “that will to power, that ranting triumphalism, that extreme desire to destabilize the whole of society which pervaded 1968. End of work and family, deschooling, destruction of the university, deregulation of sexuality, counter-culture, and discredit of medical expertise and collapse of healthcare facilities, hostility towards judicial institutions considered repressive, youthful vitalism, triumph of mass media communication, oblivion of stories and spontaneous presentism, all this has now become reality.” Read More

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