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The last one, for the moment, It's Michel Houellebecq, the great French novelist and essayist, author of The Elementary Particles: “I am ready to vote for anyone as long as they propose leaving the European Union and NATO”. I care a lot about it"- He was preceded by Emmanuel Todd, the famous historian and sociologist: “When a state and a government lose the power of monetary creation, well, …
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Of Marco Cedolin
Source: The corrosive
The Conte government, being made up of two certainly non-revolutionary parties that have gathered great popular consensus and precisely by virtue of this they govern, without a doubt, no one will make Italy leave the EU and the euro, it will not give the country a sovereign currency, it will not close ties with NATO and will not bring about an epochal revolution. To achieve these objectives, Italians should have voted for the parties that proposed them, and they existed both in this and in past electoral cycles, but they remained at a standstill with percentages in the order of zero point, demonstrating unequivocally how the “revolution” at least at this moment it is not in the minds of the people who clearly consider it a leap in the dark.
Despite this, the Conte government, for the first time since Craxi's ouster, he is proving to take care of the problems of Italians, instead of banks, of the spread, of the markets, of what Europe asks of us and all the other amenities that have characterized the unique thinking of all previous executives…. Read More
Reporting of Federici Studies Center
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
Of Pepe Escobar
Source: counterinformation
Trump is right – NATO is obsolete, and if Europe wants to fight imaginary enemies, he should pay his own expenses
Terrified of Trump, Eurocrats in Brussels have conveyed their fears to Asia Times in recent days about the end of NATO, the end of the World Trade Organization, even the end of the EU.
The level of hysteria has reached its peak. After the NATO summit in Brussels, the final decline of the West was declared by an agreement made as President Trump prepared to meet President Putin in Helsinki.
It was Trump himself who decreed that he wanted to talk to Putin behind closed doors, face to face, without helpers e, in theory, spontaneously, after the preparatory meeting between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was canceled. The summit takes place in the early 19th century presidential palace in Helsinki, former residence of the Russian emperors.
As a preamble for Helsinki, Trump's spectacular NATO blitzkrieg was a stage show for the ages; the various assorted “leaders” in Brussels simply didn't know what was hitting them. Trump didn't even bother to arrive in time for the morning sessions regarding the possible membership of Ukraine and Georgia. Diplomats confirmed to Asia Times that, after Trump's stinging "punch or something" scolding, Ukraine and Georgia were asked to leave the room because what would be discussed was strictly an internal NATO issue. Read More
Of Alberto Negri
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
Of Fulvio Scaglione
Source: linkiesta
THE OPINION
Of Giulio Ginnetti
A few days after the Western missile raid in Syria, it appears increasingly clear that it has not undermined the agreement between Trump and Putin to manage the spheres of influence in the troubled Middle Eastern country. What Russia and the United States have in common is the need to reaffirm their primacy on the international level, eroded in recent decades, but to do so in a way that manages differences, according to the agreement signed at the G20 in Hamburg, in July 2017.
Each of the two powers follows its own "national interests". The synthesis National Defense Strategy 2018 signed by US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, makes it clear that the primary national security concern of the United States is no longer terrorism, but the strategic competition between states. And between Russia and China, the two main actors, with the United States, on international theatre, Trump considers China his most formidable opponent and is seeking an agreement with Putin, to prevent the formation of an anti-American Russian-Chinese alliance.
The target of the raid, which was limited to a spectacular surgical operation, it was therefore not about overthrowing the Assad regime, protected by Moscow, but to strengthen the image of the United States. Trump, convinced French President Macron and British Prime Minister May to carry out a demonstration, without causing damage to Russian forces, obtaining in exchange Moscow's non-interference. Read More
Report Wall Street Italia
Of Alessandra Caparello
ROMA (WSI) – Italy is in a stalemate situation and after the second round of consultations a response is expected from the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella who will have to decide what to do most likely tomorrow.
According to what Corriere della Sera writes today, President Sergio Mattarella will try to entrust an exploratory mandate to one of the two high state offices and the most accredited one would appear to be the President of the Senate Elisabetta Alberti Casellati.
“If it goes like this, she will have to have a studio set up quickly Giustiniani Palaceand prepare a calendar of meetings in an attempt to bring the positions closer together and untangle the knots of an agreement that until last week seemed almost done".
Another option on the table is to give a pre-appointment to one of the two leaders who emerged victorious from the recent elections and the favorite name is that of Matteo Salvini who yesterday engaged in the electoral campaign of Molise and Friuli-Venezia Giulia stated: Read More
Report Linkiesta
The Syrian crisis (and US pressure) against the Lega-Five Star agreement
The winds of war are blowing on Italy and its NATO bases. If Trump decides to attack the first one to pay the price (and the first to be excluded from government) it would be the pro-Putin Salvini. (Of Alessandro Giuli, LAWS)