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Straight Column
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Franco Bassanini, Legion of Honor, with the former mayor. Now, Bassanini negotiates a pact with France. On behalf of the expired government.

Of Maurizio Blondet
Il 13 last June Guy Verhofstadt, former Belgian Prime Minister, MEP, with its hands in all the pro-European and oligarchic affairs, he used a “heavy” term – and usually forbidden in civil political controversy – to accuse the democratic opposition of the Euro-oligarchy: "Fifth column".
“Government leaders like Orbàn, Kaczynski and Salvini have only one goal, destroy Europe and kill our liberal democracy, and they are doing it together with what I call Putin's cheerleaders: Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders”.
“There is a circle of evil around our continent, which includes Putin, Erdogan and, if things get bad, Trump too” – adding – “Politicians like Le Pen, Wilders e Farage, they are only capable of pocketing the Kremlin's money and to receive help from Moscow's secret services. I am Putin's fifth column.".
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Italy and France are at war (and migrants are victims of a game bigger than them)
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Italy and France are at war (and migrants are victims of a game bigger than them)

The issue of the Aquarius ship is only part of a broader clash between Rome and Paris regarding the destabilization of Libya, the military yards and the Tav. A conflict in which migrants have nothing to do, but they are victims of a clash between two mirror-image and opposing realpolitiks. (Of Alessio Postiglione, LAWS)

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Seeing what a man Macron is? Orgoglio e dignità dell'Italia, finally
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Of Marcello Foa
Seeing what a man Macron is? Pride and dignity of Italy, finally
Source: Marcello Foa
But if the spokesperson for En marche!, the party of French President Macron, judges Italy “vomitevole”, because it shouldn't be said? Because some of the mainstream press feels the need to tone it down, maybe even hide, as if the reputation of France had to be defended? Today that title appeared on some sites, then disappeared, then reappeared; others have drowned the epithet inside the piece.
All this, journalistically, it doesn't make sense. The insult was there, sure enough there was, very heavy. And although Macron himself then partially corrected the aim, judging the Italian government “cynical and irresponsible”, the case is serious.
The Italian press must not be embarrassed, who if anything should be indignant. It should be the French because it is not the Italian position that is unsustainable but theirs. Of that France that closed the ports even a year ago; which brutally rejects immigrants at the Ventimiglia border, without compassion even for children and pregnant women, and even allows himself to trespass with his gendarmes into Italian territory.
The hypocrisy of Macron and his party is flagrant. And their macroscopic double standard gives the character of this European Union, never supportive in times of need and which sees Italy as a country to be exploited, to humiliate, to buy.
That country, but, thanks to Salvini and the Lega government- 5 position, now he says no and raises his head with pride. He demands respect, does not accept lessons from Paris. And he won't go back. Read More

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Bannon: “Italy will be an earthquake for the EU, Merkel and Macron will fall like ninepins"
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Of Giovanni Coppola
Lately Steve Bannon he is spending a lot of his time in Italy. The former strategist of Donald Trump and leading animator of the “alternative rightIn fact, Americans look at our country with great interest. In a recent interview with the German newspaper The world, Bannon explained the reason for this interest: «Rome is currently the center of world politics. What is happening here is truly something special: until now, the world has never seen a truly populist government. Until now, precisely. And I absolutely don't want to miss this great event".
Steve Bannon, effectively, he has never hidden his sympathies for Matteo Salvini's League and Luigi Di Maio's M5S, that the former director of Breitbart see how «the saviors of Italy from yet another technical government». On the contrary, just like in an interview with New York Times, also to Welt Bannon confirms that he has maintained political relationships with the two populist leaders and their staff, Furthermore, that he advised them to form an alliance to form the government: «After the elections I met Salvini and I also had contact with Di Maio. I limited myself to recommending an agreement between the two parties, then the boys did everything. But I prefer not to say anything more about this.". Read More

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Vulnerable and “commissioned” Italy. And the disaster has just begun
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Of Alberto Negri
Vulnerable and “commissioned” Italy. And the disaster has just begun
Source: Alberto Negri

Expelled from the Quirinale gate, Italian populism could transform into an unprecedented wave of nationalism in a country that has always demonstrated little attachment to the flag and a much greater attachment to the wallet, which today languishes. Mattarella leads Paolo Savona, an elderly and esteemed gentleman who allowed himself to be exploited by the crafty Matteo Salvini, it was a masterstroke to repel, at least for the moment, the Cinquestelle from the control room, but it could turn into a boomerang.

Go back to the fall of Gaddafi to understand

Italy remains a vulnerable country inside and above all outside, on markets and in foreign policy. Also vulnerable to the theories of an international conspiracy by the European and internal establishment to defend the euro, sometimes cited inappropriately as the father of all Italian troubles. But we must always find a culprit to justify our ignorance. There is no conspiracy, for the moment, but the evidence of the facts. Italy has been a fragile country since 2011 France, Great Britain and the United States decided to eliminate Colonel Gaddafi, its most important ally in the Mediterranean than just six months earlier, il 30 August 2010, had received with great fanfare in Rome, signing contracts worth tens of billions and relying on the Raìs for the control of migratory flows. Not only did Italy not defend it but it bombed it, giving in to the blackmail of its NATO allies who threatened to attack Eni's terminals.

It was Italy's biggest defeat since the Second World War. The consequences were devastating: colossal monetary losses and a wave of migration that, year after year, it destabilized the political framework of the country. From that 2011 Italy's allies and competitors have undermined our interests, leaving us alone and adrift. While yesterday in Rome the most lacerating political crisis of recent years was taking place, Emmanuel Macron has called an international conference on Libya for tomorrow in Paris which "will take place under the auspices of the United Nations" to set the date of the elections. Read More

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The United States is tearing us apart, but in Italy no one noticed
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Of Fulvio Scaglione
The United States is tearing us apart, but in Italy no one noticed
Source: linkiesta

While bon ton Italy has a good time discussing populism and sovereignism, the Empire strikes again. Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state who came from the CIA (where it leaves, as new boss, tale Gina Haspel, at the time neocon very active in torture and now in fact confirmed in office with the decisive votes of the Democrats), announces "the harshest sanctions in history" against Iran, which could only be canceled if the ayatollahs took appropriate measures. Like disappearing off the face of the earth or converting to Buddhism. There is a basis for the disagreement with Iran, as is known, the Iranian nuclear deal signed in 2015 there USA, Ue, Russia in Onu. For almost the entire world the agreement works and, at a minimum, has blocked Iran's path to military nuclear power 15-20 years. For three countries, however, it is a dangerous disaster. Three against all, but in the three, alongside Israel and Saudi Arabia, there is the Empire, then the table jumps. Bad but that's how empires do it.
In the same speech, but, Pompeo, on behalf of the American administration, clearly explained the fate that awaits us: “We understand the financial and economic hardship this imposes on our friends, but you should know that we will hold accountable those who do prohibited business with Iran. I know that the Europeans want to preserve the nuclear agreement but now they know what our position is".
It's beautiful. Why Pompey, when he talks about “forbidden affairs”, means the businesses prohibited by the USA and the sanctions decided by them, not illicit or criminal business at all. 5 billions of actual trade, others 25 between protocols and agreements already signed and to be implemented. To give an idea: 30 billion was the value of the Italian Stability Law of 2018.

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Here we are: the EU creates a network of censors. Freedom of opinion is in danger!
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Of Marcello Foa
Here we are: the EU creates a network of censors. Freedom of opinion is in danger!
Source: Marcello Foa
The European Union and the United States have been preparing the ground for a year and a half. And now here we are: Soon we will have a network of fact-checkers, naturally independent, naturally abiding by a rigorous code of ethics and naturally dedicated to the supreme cause: the fight against fake news or the monster that shakes the establishment's sleep.
All this, actually, as I have been saying for some time, it has only one purpose: legitimize the introduction of censorship, limit the impact and spread of non-mainstream ideas, naturally denying that it is censorship. But so it will be: there is no true democracy when someone claims the right to decide what is true and what is false, and making it inviolable and sacred, what is actually a very dangerous form of strabismus, because it only points to part of the problem, fake news spread by social media, and the real scandal is ignored, which is represented by the manipulation of news created within governments, whose impact is infinitely greater. Any lie about Syria, on Ukraine, on Greece remains rigorously unpunished, as long as it originates within an institution, precisely those institutions that now demand, for our good, to limit the boundaries of freedom of expression.
The European Union yesterday took another fateful step, announcing measures, “preparatory”, waiting for further "fine-tuning", already announced for December. The setting is soft, so as not to alarm the masses and in fact few media talked about it; the outcome, but, it's a given. It cannot be otherwise when it is announced, as did the EU Security Commissioner Julian King who

The manipulation of public opinion through fake news is a real threat to the stability and cohesion of our European societies

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the creation before the summer of an independent European network of fact-checkers and in September of a European platform on disinformation to help them in their work. Furthermore, Brussels will launch a new call this year for the production and dissemination of quality information on the EU through data-driven news..

Already, but what checks? What data? Those certified by Macron or the US State Department who decided to bomb Syria without evidence, only on the basis of news reported by the media and social media? Those issued by NGOs which, although presenting themselves as non-governmental, are actually financed by Western governments, becoming a disguised but very effective tool in the context of modern asymmetric wars?
King also launched social media measures from Facebook and Twitter, just as Zuckerberg, to the European Parliament, he announced the creation of a small army of twenty thousand guardians to guarantee the fairness of the "2019 European elections" that is, to take away the lifeblood and visibility of sovereignist ideas and movements that are critical of the EU. Therefore to limit freedom of opinion from above, as happens only in authoritarian regimes.
Unfortunately, the scenario we outlined by Alberto Bagnai is confirmed, Vladimiro Giacché and myself, during the very crowded conference which took place last Saturday in Rome, organized by The dissident intellectual and by the association a/symmetries. A conference that aroused the enthusiasm of those present and which you can follow thanks to Byoblu by Claudio Messora, who filmed it.
The looming battle for truly free information will be tough, very hard. And we will need it, like never before, of your support.
Here is the video, good vision:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPakayBRjac

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Assad restituisce la Legion d'onore alla Francia: "Non è un onore avere un'onorificenza di un paese schiavo degli USA"
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Nothing happened in Syria, the West is lost
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Of Pierrick Tillet
Nothing happened in Syria, the West is lost
Source: counterinformation
I feel a little reassured because nothing happened. If you followed the Anglo-American press, something I do every morning, you were in an anti-Russian escalation. In fact what happened after the events in England, which resulted in the speech, it was a sort of growing Russophobia that was absolutely mysterious and deserves analysis. And the latest diplomatic development was that the Americans and Trump tweeted threatening a massive attack, ecc. And the Russians who said: Listen well, if so, we will use our anti-aircraft defense and this system that scares everyone, the S400 system which appears to be the best surface-to-air defense system in the world.
At that point there was simply the possibility of a bigger war and some sort of showdown, the cards revealed at the end of a poker game, since it is actually unknown what the Russians are capable of. The S400 may be able to destroy everything that flies in the air and in ten minutes there would be the end of the American empire. Or there would have been a failure of the S400s and the US would have gone on the rampage again.
Well, we shot firecrackers, we negotiated with the Russians. There had been an anti-Russian dynamic that was building and, in the end, the Americans, the British and French struck where the Russians authorized them to strike. So we are back to nothing. At the current state of information, I feel quite reassured. Read More

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Macron, l'europeista a parole che pensa solo agli interessi della Francia
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Of Alberto Negri
Macron, the verbal pro-European who thinks only of France's interests
Source: Linkiesta
French President Emmanuel Macron puffed out his chest in his speech to the European Parliament, knowing full well that with Great Britain's imminent exit from the Union it will remain the only member country that sits on the UN Security Council and has a significant atomic potential. He reiterates that his intervention in Syria together with the American and British ones “saved the honor of Europe”. In truth, Westerners saved face after losing the war in Syria where Russia and Iran managed to keep Bashar Al Assad's regime in place.. Now a new chapter will probably begin with the clash between Iran and Israel.
It is a negligible fact that since the beginning of the revolt seven years ago France has tried in every way to have its say in the former colony: first he focused on the fall of Assad, even supporting the jihadists, then in 2013 he wanted to bomb Damascus, then with the attacks in France in 2015 Hollande asked the Syrian dictator to fly over the country to take revenge and strike ISIS. Short memory and not only of the French.
Macron himself speaks of a "poisoned debate" but whoever arrogated the right to send French policemen to Italian territory in Bardonecchia against all the rules: Paris has not yet apologized and probably never will
The astute Macron even promised a few weeks ago to protect the Syrian Kurds from Erdogan by receiving a Kurdish delegation and sending 150 soldiers from Iraq but in reality he accomplished nothing, like Trump who sold his allies against the Caliphate to Türkiye. Read More

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