Trump and the lost role of the USA

Of Sergio Romano
Trump and the lost role of the USA
Source: Corriere della Sera, 8/04/2018
After the collapse of the USSR and the end of Soviet hegemony in Central-Eastern Europe, the United States believed it had won the Cold War. It seemed to me that they made a mistake and that the causes of the collapse were different; but the world, since then, he had to note that there was no important event in which America did not feel called to make suggestions, impose solutions or make judgments. The style could change from one president to another (Barack Obama's style was very different from that of George W. Bush) but America had become, as defined by Madeleine Albright, the "indispensable nation". His wishes were not always granted and his orders followed, but there was no table in international diplomacy without a seat reserved for the United States.
It seems that the picture is changing and that there are now events in which the great North American state is more a spectator than an actor. A few days ago we saw images of three leaders (the presidents of Iran, Türkiye and Russia) who had won the Syrian war and had gathered to divide the spoils. A few months earlier we had learned that the main Chinese political leader had implicitly challenged American power with a constitutional amendment that guaranteed him a sort of imperial annuity. The reasons for the change are numerous.
The wars fought by the United States in recent decades have not helped its military credibility. The crisis of 2008 it demonstrated that alongside the power of Washington there existed on Wall Street another power that the president and Congress were unable to control. It had already happened in 1929, but in times when America did not have the global responsibilities that it had after the end of the Second World War. Since then, globalization has favored the birth of new powers. The more the United States reveals its shortcomings to the world, the more the number of those ready to defy its will grows. Read More

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Facebook: Obama easily violated Americans' privacy, and a fourth Trump…

Reporting of BastaBugie editorial team

WHY’ TWO WEIGHTS AND TWO MEASURES? (N.D.R.)
Obama was allowed to steal American citizens' data and use it for his election campaign, but when Trump did it, there was a scandal
Of Giampaolo Rossi

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Carol Davidsen was the Department Head “Media Targeting” of Obama's staff in the elections of 2012 and is considered an expert in online election campaigns in America. In a public conference, three years after Obama's election, revealed something that went unnoticed at the time but is now shocking in light of the Cambridge Analityca scandal: “We were able to ingest the entire US social network on Facebook”.
In the same speech he stated that Democrats arbitrarily acquired data on American citizens to which Republicans did not have access; and this happened with the complicity of the American company which allowed it so much so that Davidsen is forced to admit that “there was an unfair information acquisition imbalance”
FACEBOOK ALLOWED OBAMA TO STEAL CITIZENS' DATA
In recent days on Twitter, Davidsen returned to the issue by confirming that Facebook was surprised when they realized that Obama's staff had “sucked the entire social graph” (that is, the system of connections between users) “but they didn't stop us once they understood what we were doing”. Read More

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Putin is indeed guilty? Something just doesn't add up in the Skripal case

Of Marcello Foa
Putin is indeed guilty? Something just doesn't add up in the Skripal case
Source: Marcello Foa
We are really sure that the Russians were the ones who poisoned the former spy Skripal and his daughter? Allow me to raise more than one doubt by carefully examining the news that has come out so far. The points that don't add up are these:
Primo. What is the motive? What is the interest in Putin? Let me explain: everyone recognizes the Russian president's great sagacity in calibrating his moves. He excels in both strategy and tactics. We have long known that the United States (which drive Europe) they are engaged in an operation to wear down the Kremlin aimed at obtaining a realignment towards pro-American positions, which can only be achieved with certainty through a change of regime or with Putin's exit from the scene. Since a colored revolt is unfeasible, the scenario is to make the weight of sanctions and international isolation unsustainable, causing Russian elites to rebel against the newly re-elected president.
In this context, every pretext is used to unnerve or weaken Putin. Knowing the end goal, you have to ask yourself: but what interest did the Russian president have in trying to eliminate a former spy, however out of the picture, resorting to the most spectacular of assassination attempts, the only one that - after the pollonio affair - the whole world would have attributed to the Kremlin? You will agree: it doesn't make sense. Diplomatically it would have been suicide, because it would have offered the West an opportunity for a further anti-Russian campaign, which in fact occurred promptly. No, Putin is not the leader to make these mistakes. Read More

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Paul Craig Roberts – World War III is approaching

http://vocidallestero.it/ di Paul Craig Roberts (FORMER US GOVERNMENT MEMBER OF DONALD REAGAN)

In a recent article Paul Craig Roberts returns to talk about World War III, accusing Russia of being too cowardly towards aggressive US policy: in the desire to be recognized as part of the West, According to Roberts, Russia never gets the job done, but it always leaves a window open to the USA, hoping to curry favor with them, while effectively giving Washington another round to prevail in the conflict that Washington has started. This is what happened in Syria, where the war risks rekindling, and in Ukraine. And in the meantime, the escalation of propaganda continues in the West: not a day goes by without Russia being accused of cyber-attacks, interference in the elections of Western countries, even subversion of democracy. And with the Skripal case a new leap in quality has been made, coming close to accusing her of state terrorism. In short, what seems like a preparation by Western public opinion for the Third World War that Roberts fears.
Of Paul Craig Roberts, 13 March 2018
“In a nuclear conflict, the 'collateral damage' would be the end of all humanity” – Fidel Castro
The Russians, eager to show the West how friendly they are, they let Washington get a foot in the door in Syria, and Washington is using it to restart the war. Russian failure to finish the job has left Washington as foreign mercenaries, whom the American paid press passes off as "freedom fighters", in the Syrian enclave. For the war to start again, Washington must find a way to help its mercenaries.

The Trump regime has found it, or so he thinks, his justification for returning to the Obama regime's false accusation of Syria's use of chemical weapons. This lie, invented from scratch by the Obama regime, was silenced by Russia's intervention, who assured that there were no Syrian chemical weapons. Indeed, if memory serves us, Russia handed over chemical weapons to the US to be destroyed. There is little doubt that Washington still has them and will use some of them, with their Syrian markings, in what appears to be an imminent false flag attack for which Assad may be blamed. In other words, Washington will create a 'critical moment', he will blame Assad and Putin, and – with or without the authorization of Congress – the American intervention will begin on behalf of its mercenaries.
If we can believe James Mattis, the retired US Marine general who is Secretary of Defense, Syria, a country without chemical weapons and which does not need them in its combing operations against Washington's mercenaries, is using chlorine gas “against his own people”, exactly the same phrase used by the Obama regime when it attempted to orchestrate a justification for the attack in Syria. Mattis said he is receiving reports of Assad's use of chlorine gas, while at the same time claiming that there is no evidence of the use of gas, even less by the Syrian army.
The Secretary of Defense actually accused Syria of “targeting hospitals” with chlorine gas, although he admits there is no evidence. Mattis went on to accuse Russia of complicity in the killing of civilians, a feat at which the US excels. Read More

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Italy is Putin's enemy due to one-way Atlantic solidarity

Of Alberto Negri
Italy is Putin's enemy due to one-way Atlantic solidarity
Source: Alberto Negri

Why Italy should wage a cold war on Russia? One of the most worn refrains of international politics that can be read in the Italian press at the moment, after the obvious re-election of Putin to the Russian presidency and the Skripal case, it's called "Atlantic solidarity". But for Italy what does it consist of?? Military terms this: ours is the NATO country with the most American nuclear devices in Europe even if it does not manage them directly, beyond 70, of which 20 in the Ghedi base e 50 in Aviano. Among the warheads there are also thermonuclear bombs with the power of 50 kilotons whose presence constitutes the reason for a hypothetical preventive attack in the event of nuclear conflict.

If we then move on to politics, the so-called "Atlantic solidarity" has paradoxical aspects for Italy. US nukes in Italy, such as the bases or "facilities" of the American armed forces, they are almost always a taboo topic for Italian politicians, even for those who have just won the elections: it is never talked about because Washington's approval of a leader or a party remains a fundamental aspect. Sigonella's shadow, with the clash in 1985 between Craxi and Reagan's United States on the fate of the hijackers of the Achille Lauro ship, it remains as a sort of warning: sooner or later the bills with Washington will be paid. Nobody wants to disturb the NATO handler, (to which Donald Trump would like Europeans to contribute more). Even when the driver doesn't exactly have our interests in mind: the former chief of staff Vincenzo Camporini also said it some time ago when France, USA and Great Britain decided in 2011 to bomb Libya Gaddafi without even making a phone call. We remember that at the time Russia abstained on the UN resolution that started the bombings: “If we had not granted the Italian bases for their planes, the bombing operations would have been longer and more difficult”. So, is the general's reasoning, opposing it was technically possible, instead we also joined the raids with a decision essentially taken by the former head of state Giorgio Napolitano. As for Libya, Italy has seen very little of "Atlantic and European solidarity".: tens of billions lost, hundreds of thousands of refugees while the immigration issue was decisive in determining the new political framework. In short, Salvini and Di Maio also owe their votes in part to the failure of this "Atlantic solidarity" (and European), that Italy has never seen, on the contrary. Read More

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Trade war: Trump is right (and we Europeans are not innocent at all)

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Trade war: Trump is right (and we Europeans are not innocent at all)

The tariff war is only the latest chapter of a global liberalism that has always gone in fits and starts. Trump has his reasons for shutting down free trade. And that's not necessarily Europe (much less innocent than it seems) cannot take advantage of it. (Of Stefano Cingolani, LAWS)
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Consecration of Bp. Selway

A new Bishop consecrated in the USA for the continuation of the Catholic episcopate, in this state of grave necessity, started with the Second Vatican Council:

Consecration of Bp. Joseph Selway

ON FEBRUARY 22, 2018, the Most Rev. Donald J. Sanborn, assisted by the Most. Rev. Daniel L. Dolan and the Most Rev. Geert Stuyver, consecrated the Rev. Joseph S. Selway to the episcopacy. The rite took place during the course of Pontifical High Mass, read more, see photos…

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How Tribalism Becomes Satanism

Reporting of Tradition in Action
Atila Sinke Guimarães
HOW TRIBALISM BECOMES SATANISM – Considering that Pope Francis seems to be embarking on a full-steam campaign to promote tribalism – we saw him in Chile and Peru this past week declaring that “Amazonia is the heart of the Church,” – I thought it timely to warn my readers about the dangers of this move. Toward this end, I first recommend that they read the article by Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira in this topic. But I also want to translate into simple terms what tribalism is.

forbidden to forbidThe motto ‘It is forbidden to forbid’ painted on Paris; below, a 1968 student & workers march against authority announcing ‘We will win’– and they did
march 1968

We are all suffering the deleterious influence of the 1968 Sorbonne Revolution, which in the United States is almost unknown by this name because here the fruits of that Revolution are generally referred to as the “Cultural Revolution of the ‘60s,” which found its most expressive landmark in the hippie Woodstock festival in 1969.
Independent of the name used here or abroad, what counts is that the Revolution in customs can be summarized by three of its slogans: “It is forbidden to forbid,” “Death to reason” and “Imagination rules.”
We have seen many consequences of the application of these moral-philosophical mottos. Among many: the disappearance of morality in society, logic in thinking, respect for superiors, good behavior in families, decorum in dressing and propriety in language.
These liberal-anarchical manifestations had immediate reflections in the political-administrative spheres, such as the increase of feminist laws pretending that women are equal to men, as well as the concession of legal rights to abortionists and homosexuals. Read More

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