Catholics between Europeanism and Populism | FIFTH COLUMN

Media versus people
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FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
Media versus people
Source: Marcello Veneziani
Cara Lilli Gruber, but how can Italians trust you if you write about itSet a comment with a title like that: “All populists lie. They are dangerous and opportunistic"? And the title faithfully responds to the development. He knows he's offending three-quarters of his viewers?
Like the 60% I feel like one of the Italians right now, with all the critical reservations that I do not hide, more on the side of the populists than their enemies. And I'm not just offended by his definition, how hurt by Italian, as a journalist and free thinker. I would never use a statement like that even for the worst enemies; I would distinguish, I wouldn't feel in possession of the truth. I don't bet on the success of this government, I say it every day. And it surprises me that the one attacking in that way is the one who was generous with the Grillini and their sponsors, to the point that often – even the other day with the embarrassing, rambling, Dibba's rant – gave the impression of being Grilli Uber. I don't hold the inconsistency against you, they are his business, I know that grillini are fine for her if they hang to the left, if instead they ally themselves with Salvini they become bad. There are people who still divide humanity into fascists and anti-fascists, and reality is lost, the present, the world, 70 years of history, communism even.
Through her, actually, I take it out on the media, the Press and TV which are offering a disgusting and desolating spectacle: the Italians on one side and them united on the side of the establishment. I wouldn't have expected the opposite but at least a variety of positions and the ability to distinguish and analyze; someone equidistant, someone else who understands people's reasons, someone who recognizes pieces of truth in the opponent. No, Nothing, a Chinese army, monolithic, monotonous. Like in war. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

If even the left realizes it: “The people turn against the elites”
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Of Matteo Carnieletto
If even the left realizes it: “The people turn against the elites”
Source: The eyes of war
It is easy to say that populism is absolute evil. A sort of fascism of the new millennium to be eradicated. Right, in today's populist movements there are hints of extremism, sometimes even racism. But you cannot understand how these movements are succeeding around the world without understanding their causes. The deepest ones and those that have created discontent among the people who then go to the polls and decide who to reward (to punish).
In an interview with Il Manifesto, the well-known activist Noam Chomsky had his say, sparing no one, especially the American left: “In the USA many workers voted for Obama, believing in its message of hope and change, and when they were quickly disillusioned, they looked for something else. This is fertile ground for demagogues like Trump, what an end to being the voice of workers while undermining them time after time through his administration's anti-union policies, who represents the wildest wing of the Republican Party”. Here Chomsky is right about the first part, but wrong on the second, given that under Trump the lowest unemployment rate has been recorded since 2000. Read More

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Actuality | Catholics between Europeanism and Populism

Matteo Castagna at Canale Italia: "Bergoglio chiarisca sulle coperture". "Salvini? The people are with him"
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Of Lucia Rezzonico
Yesterday, Sunday 26 August, our Manager Matteo Castagna he was once again a guest on the show “News Today” on Canale Italia, national and international broadcaster (thanks to the satellite) conducted by Gianluca Versace. The full video of the broadcast can be found in five parts on the website www.canaleitalia.it al link “programs” and then “News Today” of the 26 August.
Versace presented again, as during the episode of 13/08 the important and interesting, but not an easy essay by Castagna: “CATHOLICS AND BETWEEN Europeanism POPULISM” (Solfanelli Editions) which can be purchased by sending an email with your details to christusrex@libero.it and making the payment of € 17,00 + 2 of shipping costs (€ 19,00 in everything) or by going to the post office or tobacconists with Lottomatica and loading the Postepay n. 4023600944551516 e C.F.: RNLSLV72B64L781I or by bank transfer made out to Matteo Castagna: IT30G0622511731615257645207 or directly from the Solfanelli publishing house: http://www.edizionisolfanelli.it/cattolicitraeuropeismo.htm
This time too, guest writer Luciano Lincetto, then the entrepreneur Biolcati and a Kurdish exponent. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

The Putin-Salvini-Trump alliance can re-establish Europe?
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The Putin-Salvini-Trump alliance can re-establish Europe (author's title, which does not contain the question mark of the editorial title, but it is a statement)
Written and reported by Danilo Quinto
Today, Sunday 15 July, in the stands of the Moscow stadium, for the World Cup final, Matteo Salvini will sit. We sincerely hope that we do not have to witness the triumph of grandeur French. We think that Salvini is of the same opinion.
It is natural that Emmanuel Macron – il Re Sole, what he called it The New Observer after the party cost 286.000 euro which he had organized in Versailles, to celebrate the first year of his presidential mandate – please the post-communist and radical-chic intelligentsia, that, so to speak, by Matteo Renzi and Emma Bonino, which it is no coincidence that they are prepared, according to some, to launch a party together on the wave of great Italian success Of +Europe and the elimination of the PD. Same arrogance. Same anxiety for power. Same ambiguity, like the one that the French president shows by giving a caress and a kiss to the Pope a few days after having participated together with his wife Brigitte - divorced and grandmother of 6 grandchildren – at a “Music Festival” at the Elysée, where DJ Kiddy Smile performed wearing a t-shirt that said «Son of immigrants, nero and pederast». Always on that occasion, Brigitte and Emmanuel – who seems to have spent the beauty of on makeup 26.000 euros in the former 3 months of the presidential mandate, beyond 34.000 euros for the construction of a private swimming pool in his residence in Fort de Brégançon and 500.000 euros for very refined and designer tableware for the Elysée – they were photographed together with transvestite homosexuals, because that party was held to celebrate homosexualism and pederasty. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

Let's say it: the sovereignists are right and insults won't stop them
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Of Marcello Foa
Let's say it: the sovereignists are right and insults won't stop them
Source: Marcello Foa
And to say that until recently, mainstream intellectuals attempted to discredit the sovereignists as dangerous neo-fascists. Today we can say it: the sovereignists were right and there is no insult that will be able to stop us, for a reason as simple as it is unexpected: voters are destroying, ballot after ballot, that neo-globalist and transnational construct that years of incessant propaganda have attempted to transform into an unavoidable Destiny. I confess it: it was difficult to imagine it in these proportions. The media campaign (but not only that) launched by the establishment to stop populists in every country (from the United States to Great Britain, from Austria to Italy) it has been of unprecedented virulence and is destined to last. Just think of the latest shameful accusations from Repubblica which labeled as "red-brown" many intellectuals guilty of being in favor of the Legastellato government and which accuses Matteo Salvini of being a Nazi. Mud, garbage, nothing but rubbish.
Trump in the United States suffered the same treatment. Yet the defamation no longer takes hold, not even if it is screamed by 90% of the media; On the contrary, produces the opposite effect. The popularity of the president of the United States is very high, the League goes from victory to victory and i 5 Stars have crashed to the left that Democratic Party for which almost all the talk shows support. All this happens because citizens are tired of no longer being masters of their own destiny and are no longer enchanted by narrative, drenched in spin, aimed at creating the impression that the state is a relic of the past and that the world will be ineluctably multicultural, multiethnic, governed by virtual democracies but de facto controlled by self-appointed elites lacking popular legitimacy. More than a relic, the State is more alive than ever! Read More

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Actuality | events

Christians taking to the streets in Vietnam against the communist regime
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Catholics on the streets in Vietnam, a Binh Thuan, ad Ha Tinh e Vinh, for example, with rosaries, Vatican flags and banners, to protest against the granting of land to the Chinese communists and against the liberticidal law on cybersecurity, authentic Internet censorship: anyone who connects to Catholic sites risks prosecution.Law enforcement has already made thousands of arrests among protesters across the country, the regime has already threatened harsh repression. Which did not intimidate the Church: the Bishop emeritus of Kontum, mons. Michael Hoang Duc Oanh, also asked President Tran Dai Quang in writing to respect the will and rights of the people, to release those who have been arrested, as well as thus maintaining social peace.
The Bishop Emeritus also criticized the priests who are members of the National Assembly, completely regimented and for this reason they expressed themselves in favor of the new regulation on the web: "They betray our faith and our country", said the Bishop. Read More

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Policy | Non-fiction

The left reduced to the sole thought of the elites
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Of Carlo Freccero
The left reduced to the sole thought of the elites
THE SELF-CRITICISM OF A CERTAIN LEFT (N.D.R.)
Source: The Manifesto
The left is in crisis today and is wondering how it could speak to the new populisms to lead them back to the tracks of an elitist democracy that resembles an oligarchy more than a democracy in the strict sense.
Vice versa, even when he says he wants to listen to the malaise of which populism is an expression, the left entrenches itself in the clichés of political correctness. While, In my opinion, an objective self-analysis would be enough to understand things from another angle. The question is what the left is today and what the left once was? Because there has been such a radical change? I already know the answer. We were wrong. What if we are wrong now?
In any case, reflect on what the left was at its origins, already contains the answer to the problem of populism today.
Before, right-wing populism didn't exist because many of the instances of today's populism were on the left. And the growth of people's rights was not considered reactionary, but progressive.
The great fracture on the left begins with the so-called third way and the complete surrender of progressives to neoliberalism. Since then we have been immersed in the single thought to the point of having lost the memory of ourselves. Read More

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Catholicism | STUDY CENTER FEDERICI

Mons. Benigni and Saint Gregory VII
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Reporting of Federici Studies Center

Introduction to the chapter of the Social History of the Church by Msgr. Benigni dedicated to the great pontiff Saint Gregory VII.
Henry IV and Gregory VII (1073-85) up to Canossa (1077).
Hildebrand's election took place on the same day that Alexander II went underground. It was an acclamation of the clergy and the people who wanted him to be the successor of the five popes that Hildebrand had encouraged to reform the Church.. This reform was now irresistibly mature, and as always happens with a profound religious movement, political tendencies penetrated it and led the harsh political and social struggle with them.
Those sectarians of the Errician struggle who brought out the accusation of simony for the election of Gregory VII, they were miserable slanderers. Today there is no wise historian who doubts it. The force of things imposed the choice of those who had powerfully improvised the dominating movement.

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Actuality | WORLD CONFLICT

How much longer will we continue to pretend that the Palestinians are not a people?
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Of Robert Fish
How much longer will we continue to pretend that the Palestinians are not a people?
Source: Comedonchisciotte
Monstrous. Frightening. Wicked. It's strange like today, in Middle East, the words are simply missing. Sixty Palestinians dead. In one day. Two thousand four hundred injured, more than half from live ammunition. In one day. These numbers are an outrage, an escape from morality, a source of infamy for every army.
And we should believe that the Israeli army is that of the “purity of weapons”? And we have another question to ask. If I'm there this week 60 Palestinian deaths per day, what will happen if there are any next week 600? O 6.000 next month? Israel's squalid justifications (and the crude American response) they raise exactly this question. If we can now accept a massacre of this magnitude, how long our immune system can handle in the days, in the weeks and months to come? Read More

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Actuality | World Economy

Argentina turns to the IMF and people take to the streets
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Argentina turns to the IMF and people take to the streetsReport Wall Street Italia
Of Alessandra Caparello
A financial debacle that reopens old wounds for Argentines in recent days with the national currency, the weight, under the threat of hyperinflation and a president Mauricio Macri which to save the economy and spare its people from a new financial crisis is asking for help from the International Monetary Fund.
Although the central bank of Argentina has decided for a huge increase in the rates three times since 27 April, issandoli al 40%, the peso continued to collapse and the president had to do resort to International Monetary Fund, looking for a standby agreement for a loan of at least 30 billions of dollars (although other sources even talking about 50 billion). Which means on standby? Which wouldn't be cashed in right away, but used if the situation worsens further. Read More

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