Actuality

Of Thierry Meyssan

Source: Voltairenet
The Western media asserts that, in Eastern Ghouta, Syria and Russia are destroying valiant defenders of democracy.
According to the governments of the United Kingdom and France, these are three distinct armed groups: the Army of Islam, the Rahman Legion and Ahrar el-Sham.
According to Syria and Russia instead, the names of these three groups do not designate a different ideology. These three groups would not actually each defend their own ideas on Syria, but rather the interests of the respective sponsors. They would unite through the resolution 2401 and the attack they are now undergoing.
There is a lot of data circulating on the number of soldiers of each of these groups and on the number of inhabitants of eastern Ghouta. In reality these are unverifiable figures, so much so that the UN has given up on quantifying them. There is no doubt that the civilians of Ghouta are Syrians, however, there is no certainty of the nationality of the fighters. Surely some of them are Syrians, often prejudiced, many others are foreigners (who by definition cannot be classified as "rebels"). Even in this case these are unverifiable estimates.
Only two things are known for certain about these groups:
– First of all, we know what weapons he had at his disposal in 2015 the Army of Islam. It's an outdated fact, however verifiable thanks to the video of a military parade, organized in 2015 in Ghouta by the leader of the group, in which four armored vehicles and approximately 2.000 men, that is, a number of fighters ten times lower than claimed. Read More

Of Mario Bozzi Trails

Source: Mario Bozzi Trails
The paths to freedom and political participation are long and complicated. Not only because of a weak and botched electoral law. The crisis of representation in our country and - upon closer inspection - throughout Europe has profound features, which go far beyond mere political data. It is certainly an institutional and cultural crisis, social and economic. But above all it is the crisis of a collective identity model, to whom, willy-nilly, Western society has conformed, today forced to deal with her "solitude", with the loss of places to meet, of ideal constraints, of shared expectations, of those "intermediate bodies" which for centuries have been essential places of intermediation and political and social participation. To lift the veil of misunderstandings and silences on this underlying crisis, reported, until yesterday, from a minority culture, considered , with contempt, “out of date”, it has arrived now, on the front page of the “Corriere della sera”, Pierluigi Battista. Read More