Catholics between Europeanism and Populism

A new crisis: we are at the end of the globalist era?
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Of Luigi Tedeschi
A new crisis is coming to Europe, but the crisis of 2008 has not yet been overcome. Recurring crises are the clear symptom of the incipient decadence of the global neoliberal model.
The shadow of recession has returned to the Italian and European economies. The effects of the slowdown in the global economy are clearly being felt. Italian GDP decreased by 0,1% in the third quarter 2018 compared to the previous one. It is expected for 2018 an Italian growth of 0,8%, decreasing compared to previous estimates, which predicted growth of 1.2%. This is the first setback in growth since 2014. Read More

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Actuality | National Economy

German financial terrorism against Italian sovereignty
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Of Luigi Tedeschi
German financial terrorism against Italian sovereignty
Source: Italicum
Germany dominates Europe through financial terrorism, a weapon of mass destruction for states, which entails the abrogation of democracy.
It was all already planned, however, it was an easy prophecy.
Mattarella's veto is perfectly consistent with a practice inaugurated by Napolitano and now consolidated, that of the president's governments. That this practice is in open conflict with the constitution, that governments elected by the people are removed and other "technical" governments appointed by Germany and European diktats are put before national sovereignty is now clear to everyone. A de facto presidentialism imposed by Europe has emerged. But above all, appointing Cottarelli in Conte's place, Mattarella has made a political choice that clearly violates the Italian constitution.
That of the technicians is in fact an eminently political choice that deposes popular sovereignty. That's how he expressed himself Marco Della Luna in the book“Traitors in the government” (Arianna Publishing 2013), in relation to the appointment of the Monti government by Napolitano: “… In the case of the Italian situation, and in general of a complex system like every country is complex, the problems are many (not just cheap, but also sociological, hydrogeological, legislative), they are unclear but controversial in their identification and causes; there is no precise and shared technique (Why, even within technical economic science there are totally divergent schools both in the analysis of the causes and in the recipes, indeed the crux of the choices is between opposing economic models); it's not just about solving problems, but to choose which objectives to pursue, what priorities to set, which social classes to tax, which to deprive of assistance, which development model (or modestly survival) adopt, and perhaps even more whether to defend a certain national independence or not, whether to accept or reject a Euro-financial architecture under German hegemony, how to challenge and change the current structure of the Eurosystem. All these choices are choices purely political, non-technical; e, based on the Italian Constitution and the general principles of representative democracy, just a political government, with a popular mandate, can be legitimately placed to carry out them. Not a technician or a government of technicians. And in fact the Monti government has done so, with the explicit and repeated endorsement of Napolitano, a series of heavily political choices, ideological, classiste, and very little "techniques". The thesis of the government of the technicians is a lie to cover up a clear and fundamental unconstitutionality, cannot be remedied retrospectively by a parliamentary vote, especially since the parliamentarians and the parties were not free and serene, but they were held under various threats, internal and external, from the spread to early termination before the pension accrues". Read More

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Actuality | WORLD CONFLICT

Towards the end of the West?
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Of Luigi Tedeschi
Towards the end of the West?
Source: Italicum
With the implosion of the West, Europe will also end?
Trump's decision to have the US withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran, with the relative restoration of the economic embargo, could lead to a rift with serious consequences in relations between Europe and the United States. Probably Trump's breakup, with the doctrine of America First, compared to Obama's foreign policy, it will mean the end of the West itself, as a geopolitical area that identified itself in the Atlantic alliance between the USA and Western Europe, arose at the end of the Second World War.
With Trump, American unilateralism in foreign policy is reaffirmed and Obama's multilateralism declines, as a phase of American geopolitics characterized by the decline of the world primacy of the USA, due to the emergence of new continental powers, such as Russia, at dinner, India and to a lesser extent Iran itself. Emerging powers have brought about the end of the era of American expansionism on a global scale, established following the collapse of the USSR.
Europe's role in the world itself has undergone a drastic reduction, both economic and political. In fact, Europe is not a unitary political institution, but only an economic-monetary union, which from a geopolitical point of view has not been able to free itself from American dominance. Therefore Europe remained strongly involved in American decline in the world, paying the consequences of their subordination. Read More

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Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

Fake News and induced truths
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Of Enrica Perucchietti
Fake News and induced truths
Source: Italicum
Interview with Enrica Perucchietti, author of the book “Fake News”, Arianna Publishing 2018, edited by Luigi Tedeschi

  1. According to the thoughts of Walter Lippmann, our perception of reality is conditioned by images, concepts, moral values ​​not directly acquired, but transmitted to us by others. Therefore, the narration of facts is necessarily subjective, a representation of reality formed through stereotypes, assumed as interpretative canons of reality itself. In the fluidity of today's telematic communication, therefore, new stereotypes replace old forms of manipulation of reality. It is therefore necessary to conclude that the perception of reality is always mediated by the uninterrupted succession of cultural stereotypes over time, every truth arises from selective parameters of interpretation of reality itself. In this case the post-virtual truths of media technology, they do not end up being equated with the metaphysical conceptions of philosophical knowledge and/or with the transcendent truths of religious faiths?

The risk exists. Yet the truth is one, with its infinite nuances, beyond the stereotypes or cultural archetypes that each of us has inherited or been indoctrinated into. I agree with the philosopher Alain De Benoist according to which the intent of post-truth would be to discredit the truth by presenting it as a "great story" which can no longer be believed precisely because everyone has constructed their own subjective truth. It would be the triumph of relativism: everything becomes “relative”, virtual and therefore chaotic. At this point of collective disorientation, Power guarantees the existence of its own truth through the supervisory action of the mainstream media and the laws introduced to guarantee order. That is, we want each of us to be increasingly wary of the news we can find on the web even if it is documented and true and, more generally, of alternative information to make exclusive reference to "certified" news.: we must only rely on what the Party says and has decided for everyone. The others will be conspiracy theorists, webeti and well poisoners. Read More

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