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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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Putin's strategy is finally starting to work?
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Of Paul Craig Roberts
Putin's strategy is finally starting to work?
Source: Comedonchisciotte
I have already had the opportunity to explain that attitude, typically Christian, of Russian President Vladimir Putin to turn the other cheek to Western provocations is a strategy intended to convince Europe that Russia is reasonable while Washington is not, and that Russia is not a threat to the interests and sovereignty of Europe, while Washington is. Appeasing Israel and withdrawing from the Iranian multinational nuclear non-proliferation agreement, American President Donald Trump may have contributed to the success of Putin's strategy.
The three largest European vassal states of Washington, Great Britain, France and Germany opposed Trump's unilateral action. Trump believes that the multinational treaty depends only on Washington. If Washington were to renounce the agreement, this would represent the end of the agreement itself. The will of the other signatories does not matter. Consequentially, Trump wants to reintroduce pre-existing sanctions on trade with Iran and impose additional ones, new sanctions. If Great Britain, France and Germany continued to honor the commercial contracts stipulated with Iran, then Washington would also sanction its own vassal states and ban English companies, French and German to operate in the United States. Washington obviously believes that the profits that Europeans have in the United States exceed those that can be obtained in Iran and thinks that [the Europeans] they will adapt to Washington's decisions, as well as, from vassal states, they have already done so in the past. Read More

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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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United States and Iran: Europe to the test
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Of Fulvio Scaglione
United States and Iran: Europe to the test
Source: Fulvio Scaglione

The Iranian crisis, much announced and finally exploded, will test the European Union. It is not the first time that the EU has had to demonstrate its virtues, and the results were not brilliant. This, but, it could be the last because the cancellation of the Treaty signed in 2015 with the government of Hassan Rouhani it could decree the end of any attempt to give Europe a political physiognomy.

The question is very simple. According to the European Union (and also the UN and Russia, moreover), the agreement of 2015, built to block Iran's path to military nuclear power, works, Iran respects the pacts and there is no reason to cancel it after such a short time. According to the USA (and also Israel and Saudi Arabia), on the contrary, the agreement is full of holes, it offers no security guarantees and Iran lies, because he continues to try to prepare the atomic bomb.

It would be difficult to imagine a sharper difference of opinion than this. Which is furthermore broadened by questions of economic interest. The USA wants to favor traditional partners in the Persian Gulf, who are, among other things, much richer than the Iranians. Europe has a long and cordial commercial tradition with Iran, enjoyed above all by Italy and Germany. Our country is now the second largest exporter to Iran (especially mechanical and chemical industries) and the second importer (especially oil) after Germany, first in both sectors. In the 2011 commercial relationships between Italy and Iran they reached their peak, with a value of 11 billions of euros. In the 2012 sanctions, also imposed by the EU, they caused the value of a to collapse 1,3 billion, but the projections for the 2018 they talk about 3 billion, therefore we are rapidly regaining our former positions. Read More

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The American New World Order is officially dead
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Of Henry Tougha
The American New World Order is officially dead
Source: Voices from abroad
A mainstream source such as Bloomberg states The American dream of imposing its own system of global control is officially dead. Russia, after recovering from the collapse of the Soviet Union, together with a new power like China, they have escaped US leadership by creating alternative poles of influence. Naturally Bloomberg takes an absolutely favorable and rosy point of view on the new peaceful and collaborative world order that the United States would try to pursue and considers its end negatively, casting the responsibility on the authoritarianism and power aims of China and Russia. In essence, however, this official renunciation of the ambition to integrate these countries under the American empire does not mean peace: according to Bloomberg the consequence will be that the USA will have to commit itself in an increasingly aggressive manner to militarily defend the hitherto consolidated American empire.
at Hal Brands, 27 September 2017
American foreign policy has reached a historic turning point, and here's the surprise: it has little to do with Donald Trump's exhausting and controversial presidency. Read More

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Israel prepares for war?
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Of Alastair Crooke
Israel prepares for war?
Source: Aurora site
General Mattis told the US Senate Armed Services Committee that he believes a military confrontation between Israel and Iran in Syria is increasingly likely: “I can see how it might start, but I'm not sure when or where“. This shouldn't be surprising. Anyone peeking through the membrane of the Western bubble, can see the main dynamics “bridging and strengthening” such that they inexorably close in on Israel. It becomes “inexorable”: not so much because the states of the Middle East desire war (they don't want it); but because Israel feels culturally forced to bind itself to President Trump and his team of extremists, placing itself as the first collaborator in the United States' "war" to repel China, Russia, Iran and make their commercial project an ineffective and weakened entity. The belligerent rhetoric of Pompeo and Bolton may seem like an intoxicating elixir to some Israelis; but the Middle East is simply not the place to collaborate in this new US hybrid "war" against the new emerging dynamics. Read More

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Who knows why they call them non-governmental organizations, better known by the acronym NGO?
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Of Paolo Sensini
Who knows why they call them non-governmental organizations, better known by the acronym NGO?
Source: Paolo Sensini
Who knows why they call them non-governmental organizations, better known by the acronym NGO? Almost all of them are in fact direct emanations of States that, no longer being able or willing to enter personally as actors in the conflicts they trigger everywhere, they invented this "humanitarian" formula which works much better with journalistic and television storytelling. Take for example the case of the photogenic White Helmets, jumped to the honors of the croborn with the war in Syria. What do we know about these characters led by James Le Mesurier, former officer of the English army and official of Her Majesty's Intelligence Service? Which are a group paid by 2013 with approx 32 million dollars from USAID, plus dozens more received from British governments, Dutch, French and the inevitable fiefdom-monarchies of the Gulf. They are the leader of a number of so-called NGOs, but more strictly OG (Government organizations), financed by Washington and London «for a peaceful political transition in Syria». And we emphasize peaceful. The same organization, to understand each other, which denounced the last two "chemical attacks against civilians" and blamed them on the Syrian government, like the one on the outskirts of Khan Sheikhoun in April 2017 and the last of 4 April in Duma, at the gates of Damascus. Attacks that, in both cases, even before establishing the real dynamics of the facts, they were subjected to bombing by the French-English-American Trimurti. Then the White Helmets, like hundreds of other organizations of the same type, they are nothing more than a long arm of governments and secret services which cannot (or they don't want to) no longer arrive directly with their soldiers on the battlefield. A cover, In short, and not even very successful, that for a while’ of years is systematically used in the most fiery scenarios. Now the "volunteers" with the white helmets are denouncing a new possible chemical attack against the jihadist cutthroats in the province of Idlib, north-west of Syria, this time attributing the responsibility to an air raid by the Russians. Vero, not true, it doesn't matter. Also because, as has always occurred, There has never been any responsibility for chemical attacks by Bashar al-Assad, but by now the "punitive" bombings by the Westerners had taken place and what was seen was seen. After the example of the cases cited, it doesn't take long to imagine what the outcomes of the new case reported in Idlib could be, but by dint of provocations it could happen that the Russians decide to respond tit-for-tat. And at that point it is difficult to imagine what the developments will be. Or maybe we imagine it very well. Read More

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If you want peace, don't make war on us
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Of Sergey Lavrov
If you want peace, don't make war on us
Source: Panorama
In an exclusive interview with “Panorama” on newsstands on 3 maggio, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, almost 15 years close collaborator of Putin, accuses the United States, Great Britain and a "small but very aggressive" group of Russophobic European countries. They have to resign themselves, dice, the world is no longer theirs. And he gives his version of the Salisbury poisonings and the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime. «The G7 is now inadequate, a model for the future is the Moscow-Beijing agreement".
Lavrov, in the interview he talks about all the main issues that have seen Russia as a protagonist in recent months, from the poisonings of spies in England to Syria, from the United States to relations with Europe.
Here are some passages from the long interview which can be read in full in the weekly: Read More

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The Israeli “Great Game”.
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Of Giacomo Gabellini
The Israeli “Great Game”.
Source: Giacomo Gabellini
At the beginning of 2012, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he went to the annual meeting of the very powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) to pronounce a harsh indictment against the political line of the Obama administration, interrupted by the reading of a few passages of a letter, dating back to 1944, through which the US War Department had communicated to representatives of the Zionist movement its rejection of their proposal to bomb a segment of the railway line leading to the Auschwitz concentration camp. At the end of his speech, il leaderdel Likud he stated furthermore that «none of us can afford to wait much longer. As Israeli Prime Minister, I will not allow my people to live in the shadow of annihilation", thus exploiting the suffering of the Jews for ideological purposes in accordance with the now consolidated practice of justifying Israeli policy. The Israeli prime minister himself indulged in a scene of the same kind during the United Nations General Assembly in September 2012, appearing before delegates from all over the world holding a poster depicting a ball bomb with a lit fuse, on which he drew a corresponding red line, according to him, to the “point of no return”, i.e. the limit that the United Nations they should prevent to Iran to overcome "before it completes the enrichment necessary to manufacture a bomb". Read More

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Israel wants war, but her enemies reject her
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Of Bruno Guigue
Israel wants war, but her enemies reject her
Source: counterinformation
Israel bombs Syria again, Israel simplifies its military engagement process, Israel accuses Iran of possessing nuclear weapons… Without a doubt, We see: Israel is peace, the love between people and the light of nations. A metaphysical entity invested with extraordinary prerogatives, he has the right to bomb whoever he wants whenever he wants.
To achieve this impunity, it is true that the colonizing state has colonized everyone: Washington, Paris, London and even the UN. In the meantime, this entity bombs Syria, even causing a devastating escalation. It's incredible, but the missile fire of the 30 April is the 100th Israeli operation against Syria since 2013.
When Syrian military installations are attacked, However, Zionist leaders suspect that Damascus and Tehran (also indicated) they will end up taking revenge. All that escaped them was an Israeli plane (due, according to some sources) it was shot down in February, nor that the Syrian air defense repelled most of the missiles launched on April 14 by the neocolonial trio (USA-GB-France). Read More

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