Identity exists (but there are those who deny it)

Of Ernesto Galli of the Loggia
Identity exists (but there are those who deny it)
Source: Corriere della Sera
Every time it decides to commit suicide, the Left knows that it can always count on those who are ready to help it get the shot in the barrel.: they are the intellectuals on his side. Who in turn know that whatever they say or do they can always count on the masochistic silence of their victim. This is the first reflection that comes to mind when reading Tomaso Montanari's long article «The invented identity of Italians» (The Fact, 10 September). And immediately afterwards one cannot help but think that on certain subjects in Italy any discussion is impossible since instead of trying to understand the other's reasons everyone repeats their own like a mantra for the public of aficionados. Montanari's thesis is perfectly expressed by the title of the article: the Italian identity does not exist. In his opinion, the term identity itself is a cursed term, serving only to fuel "the poison of identity rhetoric" and therefore to justify the "us" against "them", the doctrines of «rejection», «the concentration camps in Libya», the «foreigner as enemy» as well as obviously «the cultural paradigms (…) connected to the ghosts of Nazi-fascist nationalism", the "Italians first" and so on sermonizing. All infamies attributable precisely to the infamous concept of identity. Read More

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Solidarity with Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban

Image results for OrbanReporting of Gianni Toffali

Invitation (and us with Toffali, n.d.r.) all those who did not share the European Parliament's vote of condemnation of the policies of the Hungarian Republic, to show their dissent and send Janos to the Hungarian embassy in Rome at the following email
mission.rom@mfa.gov.hu the following message:
Mr. Ambassador Janos Balla
I signed (name and surname) Italian citizen, I dissociate myself from the European Parliament's vote against Hungary, guilty only of carrying out the defense of its borders, and I declare myself in total agreement with the policy implemented by your country and by President Orban to whom I ask you to convey all my solidarity.

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If even the left realizes it: “The people turn against the elites”

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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The future of Sovereignty

Of Roberto Siconolfi
The future of Sovereignty
Source: Heretically
The entire political-ideological movement linked to the sovereignist/populist alignment moves in a context and in a series of precise directions. Continuing along this path new questions arise, on crucial choices which can be responded to either with the dry alternative or with the affirmation of a plural ideological-political wave which despite having a very distinct central axis, contains “different” if not even “contrasting” options. As for the context,starting from the most obvious aspect, we must take note of the definitive drying up of the left political area but more precisely of Marxism. The death of Domenico Losurdo embodies a symbolic end of all "intellectually honest" Marxism with which it is still worth dealing and with which one can also find points of convergence for very concrete political battles. The same can be said for certain political subjectivities, representatives of that area. However, we must realize that Marxism is completely finished, and not for reasons of who knows what historical significance. It has reached its lowest point, the “0” of its descending parable. Read More

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Occhio al "The Movement" of Salvini with Bannon

Salvini closed a crucial week of his political and government struggle with a bang: becoming the most important man in the newly formed sovereignist formation inspired by Steve Bannon, “The Movement”, can count on a European level. A counter-move probably much heavier than the same Facebook video that literally sent the center-left opposition into madness (but also some government allies...), in response to the judicial siege of the Genoa prosecutors (on the League's accounts) and Agrigento and Palermo (on the Diciotti question) who in recent days seem to have sounded the charge for the final attack on the Ministry of the Interior.
The announcement of Salvini's membership of the creation of Trump's former advisor must immediately be placed in an international and electoral context: Bannon is weaving the threads of a sovereignist aggregation across the Old Continent in view of the European elections in May. And in fact he is touring Europe in suitable company. Read More

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Merkel is sovereign, not Salvini. And of the most tribal kind, short and obtuse

Merkel is sovereign, not Salvini. And of the most tribal kind, short and obtuse.

Merkel is sovereign, not Salvini. And of the most tribal kind, short and obtuse.

I happened to listen to a speech by Maurizio Molinari on Radio Radicale, the neocon director of La Stampa, on the "revolt of the middle class" which has become anti-European and votes for the "sovereignists". Apodictic as usual, Molinari declared that "sovereignism" is "a version of nationalism", but less beautiful than the nineteenth-century one: that expressed a “will to unite”, to “add”, This …
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Becchi: «E invece io dico attenti a quei due che resteranno alleati a lungo»

THE OPINION
Luciano Tirinnanzi intervista Paolo Becchi su Panorama N. 34, 09/08/2018
«According to the authors, è in atto un passaggio dalla Seconda alla Terza Repubblica basato su un dato che – credo anch’io – non può essere contestato. The inability of the so-called "progressive" forces to serve the interests of workers and small and medium-sized businesses, in short, of the majority of Italians. […] I believe Becchi is right when in one of his articles on the "sovereignist revolution", collected now in this book, maintains that the opposition between "right" and "left" has now been overcome by that which in my opinion sees people and elites opposed. […] I want to give new impetus to popular sovereignty. “Italians first” means nothing more than this. They left us a country with little hope for the future and with few smiles. Rebuilding it won't be easy. But I promise you that I will give it my all".
It is an extract from the preface signed by the Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, which baptizes the political essay by Paolo Becchi and Giuseppe Palma, From the Second to the Third Republic, appena uscito per Paesi edizioni (304 pp., 12 euro). A book that, first, recounts the birth of the Lega-M5s government and frames it as a definitive overcoming of the political past. Ma è davvero così? We asked Professor Becchi, first ideologist of the Cinquestelle and now closer to the positions of the League.
«Il passaggio dalla Seconda alla Terza Repubblica è avvenuto senza coinvolgere la Costituzione, therefore it is partly an improper definition, but which nevertheless tells of the exhaustion of a political process that began in the 1990s. As I write in the book, il suo aspetto innovatore è nella sintesi tra sovranismo identitario, that of Salvini's League, and social sovereignty, proposed instead by Di Maio and the Cinquestelle. Non a caso l’uno si è preso il dicastero dell’Interno e l’altro quello del Lavoro. Terza Repubblica significa avere un governo che sta facendo nascere qualcosa di nuovo, without throwing the constitutional rules to the wind". Read More

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Matthew Castagna: "Cattolici tra Europeismo e Populismo" – The challenge to nihilism

Of Lucia Rezzonico
Yesterday, our manager Matthew Castagna premiered his book “CATHOLICS AND BETWEEN Europeanism POPULISM – The challenge to nihilism” (SOLFANELLI editions pag. 243) at the national broadcaster, also visible abroad on satellite, Italy channel, host of the show “News Today” of the conductor Gianluca Versace.
Together with him, a well-known forty-year-old communist from Padua, the commentator Aldo Bianchini, the most conciliar journalist and writer Luciano Lincetto and the area beat singer of a sort “hippie left” Gigi Barrichello.

The guests of yesterday morning's episode: Chestnut, Bianchini, Barrichello, Lynx

It certainly cannot be said that Castagna played “at home”, anything but. But he himself explains to us the reason for choosing to go out with her first presentation in this context: “Today television is still, in Italy, the most used means of communication, as demonstrated by expert data and the audience, very high, obtained from the episode, which was followed by an avalanche of orders for the book. I specify that two types of presentations or conferences can be held: where we talk “in house”, and it is certainly a useful method. But if the aim is to reach those who don't think like you, the means is that of cross-examination. This time I was offered this and I gladly accepted. I have another one, simile, at stake, in Verona and three others, in September. Starting from October I am available for further presentations, always writing to christusrex@libero.it“. Read More

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Bannon wants to conquer the EU with The Movement

Notice to sailors. Bannon wants to conquer the EU with The Movement
Of Francesco Bechis

Donald Trump's former chief strategist confides the details of the new European populist party to The Daily Beast. Inside Le Pen and Farage, but a place of honor is reserved for Matteo Salvini
A populist army marching towards Brussels to obtain a majority in the European Parliament and defeat "the Davos party" once and for all. A Foundation for populists, that gives life to the electoral campaign for the European elections of 2019 and puts together the crème of the crème of the Italian anti-establishment, Austrian, tedesco, French, British. An organization that challenges Open Society with foil, the billionaire's pro-migrant foundation George Soros, the six-headed Hydra for lovers of conspiracies and plots. The dream of Steve Bannon begins to take shape. After Trump's former chief strategist stormed the White House, dishonorably dismissed from Tycoon, he worked 24 hours a day to repeat the experiment in Europe. And if a widespread cliché dictates that the sequel to a film is unlikely to achieve the same success as the original, Sloppy Steve's European challenge may be the exception that proves the rule.
The Daily Beast, after hearing Bannon, revealed the first details. It will be called The Movement, it will be a right-wing party (but he will not despise the contribution of different voices, as long as the enemy remains the same: the European elites), will have its headquarters in Brussels and is already looking for staff to get the ball rolling. Money won't be a problem. Bannon doesn't care that much, he is still in disbelief that the Leave Brexit campaign achieved its goal with a budget of 7 million pounds: “When they told me that the spending limit was 7 millions I told him but you understand 70 millions?? Con 7 millions don't buy anything from us. Don't buy Facebook data from us, you don't buy advertising from us, Nothing".
In London, in the luxurious Mayfair hotel, the meeting that marked the beginning of the new political adventure. Together with Bannon and Raheem Kassam, former chief of staff of Nigel Farage and director of Breitbart, a large delegation from European anti-establishment movements showed up. Farage himself was there, Jerome Rivière of the National Rally (Ex Front National), Filip Dewinter of the Flemish Flemish Interest, the Republican congressman Paul Gosar (envoy of the very powerful Freedom Caucus, group of pro-Trump conservatives that Bannon wants to have on his side).
And then not exactly reassuring faces, Prominent exponents of ultra-right parties such as Sweden Democrats and True Finns who were initially supposed to stay out but at the last minute Bannon brought back because they were "perfect for the role". There is no news of the League's involvement in the London meeting. There is little chance, however, that the most hated strategist in America will not set the table with the most delicious dish, Matteo Salvini's League which is climbing the polls and conquers the spotlight every day with rejections at sea. Bannon has real admiration for the Italian Interior Minister. And if a place in the leadership of the Movement for Le Pen and Farage is already secured, it is unlikely that the Northern League secretary will remain out, which at the moment has a very different specific weight and knows a little about the dynamics of Strasbourg. Matteo Salvini's words in a very recent interview with the Washington Post dispel the doubts, to which he said he wanted to "put together a group that obtains a majority in the European Parliament".
The time has been ripe for a while now. La debacle del Front National, the ultra-right movement led by Marine Le Penin which Bannon had placed so much hope, seemed to have removed once and for all the danger of a populist international ready to take over Brussels. But in just under a year the rise of Eurosceptic forces in Austria, Holland and Germany and the sensational exploits of the League and the Five Star Movement 4 March they reopened the game. Meanwhile, Bannon has lost two jobs (at the White House and others Breitbart news, the all-news station dear to the far-right that he himself founded) and gained a new one, no less profitable: put in the time, money and expertise at the service of a new European populist movement.
We got wind of it two months ago, when he stopped in Rome on a European tour worthy of a rock star, exploding in an irrepressible enthusiasm for the imminent birth of a yellow-green government, fulfillment of a dream that Bannon would have liked to realize overseas, by his own admission, combining the impetuosity of Donald Trump with the charisma of Bernie Sanders. Not bad, life offered him another opportunity, and this time too the wind is blowing in his favor. Tic-tac, the hands run, the European elections are getting closer and the eurosceptics have a wild card on their side. Who wants a different Europe, liberals, moderate is warned: To stop Cyclone Bannon, something more will be needed than a few blue-starred flags on the streets of Brussels.

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Sovereignists at the crossroads between "light" Europe and the Trump option

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

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