Actuality | Catholics between Europeanism and Populism

Verona: "Cattolici tra Europeismo e Populismo" by Matteo Castagna/ VIDEO
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Pictured from left: Alberto Zelger, Andrea Bacciga, Matthew Castagna, Giacomo Bergamaschi

Of Lucia Rezzonico
Friday evening, in the splendid setting of Castelvecchio, in the center of Verona, our manager Matthew Castagna was a guest of Army Officers Club which has its headquarters for the presentation of his book in the ancient and prestigious Scaligero complex. “CATHOLICS AND BETWEEN Europeanism POPULISM. The challenge to nihilism” (Solfanelli Editions). Defined by some, leaving the room: “a punch in the stomach for modernists and globalists”.
Video interviews by Nicola Pasqualato: https://youtu.be/qRNhdoMe4Bs (YOUTUBE TITLE: Pres. Book “CATHOLICS AND BETWEEN Europeanism POPULISM” by Matteo Castagna” )
Full video of the presentation: https://youtu.be/R7nJEFPkHU4
Organizer, l’On. Vito Comencini (League) That, held in Rome for the vote “I decree a thousand extensions” sent a nice speech to the City Councilor Alberto Zelger, who read it to the attentive audience. Next to him, always at the speakers' table, the moderator of the event, the City Councillor Lawyer. Andrea Bacciga, who pressed our new writer with some questions. Then, Giacomo Bergamaschi, always ours “Christ the King-Tradition”, author of the afterword.

200 people they filled the fascinating room. Not just our militants and supporters, but also militants of Fortezza Europa and the League and a vast heterogeneous public of all ages. A success that went beyond all expectations. Best wishes from the Mayor Lawyer. Federico Sboarina and unexpected those of Giuseppe Zenti, diocesan ordinary of Verona, perhaps in hope of a cross-examination at the Capitular Library, already feared by someone. Our thanks to General Sperotto and the Colonel in charge of the Officers' Club for the initial intervention, courtesy, hospitality and appreciation. Read More

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Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

Prosecutor Gratteri in Paola: "Fare pulizia tra i magistrati. And also among journalists"
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Gratteri discusses justice and information in Paola starting from the memory of Enzo Lo Giudice, Craxi's lawyer in “Clean Hands”. «I am Minister of Justice? Those who love me say that I was saved". Belpietro: «Magistrates who make mistakes should be suspended.
PAOLA «Among some lawyers and some clients the width of the desk has reduced. Allow this, especially in the criminal field, it is very dangerous. But it is dangerous not so much for the relationships created with clients but with fellow lawyers. Frankly, there are too many of them, and there are also too many cases that should not be in court". Nicola Gratteri in the cloister of Sant'Agostino, to Paola, thus answers journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi's first question. The lawyers Marcello Manna and Francesco Scrivano nod. The humidity of a strong summer storm mixes with the human warmth of an audience that sits down to commemorate one of the greatest lawyers in republican history: Enzo Lo Giudice. «I always say this to young people – continues the magistrate – don't look for shortcuts, they are not needed, make sure that the desk has a wide margin with your clients". And the desk of Enzo Lo Giudice it was wide. Craxi's lawyer in the “Mani Pulite” trial, communist formation, but above all a pure guaranteeist as his first practitioner recalls, now a lawyer, Francesco Scrivano. Defending the socialist leader in the judicial tornado set up by the "Clean Hands" pool of the three magistrates Davigo-Di Pietro-Colombo, for Lo Giudice it also meant dealing with the first real episode in Italy of what is today defined “media trial”. Since then everything changed. Even a notice of guarantee turned into a hearing in the newspaper columns. «The directors of the most important Italian newspapers – says Scrivano – called each other to agree on the title to be given the following day». Read More

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Actuality | events

Carlo Freccero: Foa, finally a Rai President out of the frame
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Carlo Freccero: Foa, finally a Rai President out of the frameby Carlo Freccero

Foa is part of a small group of opinion leaders, blogger, journalists and thinkers, who present the other side of the coin on the internet, the facts beyond the propaganda

I wrote some time ago on these pages that the order of speech it's changing. Foa's proposal to president of Rai is a confirmation of my statement. I'll say more. If the nomination is followed by the proposal, there is a good chance that this process would be accelerated, because information is fundamental for the formation of public opinion. The proof? The hysterical reaction with which his candidacy was received by the entire mainstream press. The Movement 5 Stelle suggested Salini and no one had anything to object to. The League proposed Foa and the uproar broke out. It is paradoxical that Foa is being fought as a fake news dealer. In this area Foa is a precursor, but in reverse.

It's from 2006, a year that in terms of the fight against fake news is prehistoric, that Foa analyzes the problem of truth in politics. His book The sorcerers of the news, of which among other things the update has been released, critically analyzes the phenomenon of spin doctors and its implications in terms of democracy. The figure of the spin doctor is not a figment of the imagination of conspiracy theorists, but an official figure, well paid, which has long been involved in organizing the electoral campaigns of Democratic and Republican candidates in America and which, more recently, it was also introduced in Italy. I remember the spin doctor who followed the Monti government and the complete Americanization of the Renzian electoral campaign. The spin doctor is not bound by the truth. Read More

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Actuality | Policy

Point of no return
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Of Marcello Veneziani

Penelope's web. It is woven during the day, it unravels in the evening. Or if you prefer, another state abortion is announced. After three months, Cottarelli's undertaking appears difficult, who also seemed to have left with all the right blessings, except for one negligible detail, the sovereign people. That annoying little charm there, called Italy. And yet he is still at sea, and you run with the headlights off in the night along a Roman road full of potholes and ambushes. The Weaver, Mattarella, he lost the clue, he made glaring mistakes, perhaps ill-advised, he managed to blow the pan first, then the embers and now he risks being left with the match in hand while the spread grows with panic. He no longer knows which way to turn, the abyss advances, specters of elections are stirring in the sun.
Whatever happens we know that we have now achieved the point of no return. An unbridgeable abyss has been dug between the Single Bloc of Power and the whole of Italy. The Single Block includes he Pd, the Great Press, Big Finance, the Caste, the Palaces, starting from the Quirinale… Then there's everything else. Which is not just the Square, the Grillino and Northern League people, the militants, but also the many refractory ones, the independents, the bilateral disgusted, the many who live, they think, they work outside the Single Block.
A was being born for the first time absolute minority government, enactment of the Single Block, in spite of the vote and Italy. Other times the technical governments of the Palace had at least one fig leaf in Parliament. This time there isn't even that, even the Democratic Party, which was the sole shareholder of reference, understood that it was better to withdraw, also because Cottarelli only announces cuts, tears and blood. At the beginning Mattarella had also discarded the hypothesis of a centre-right government that had a relative majority in parliament. And instead he then launched an oligarchic government, the PD-Potentates coalition. Read More

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“Free us Lord from war…and free us from the bad press…”
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Reporting of Federici Studies Center

The West angrily witnesses the defeat of the last terrorists in Syria (an investment gone wrong) and tears his clothes because the Syrian government defends the population from criminal Islamic gangs.
We publish the letter from the Trappists of a Syrian monastery with which they denounced the dirty game of Western democracies (and that of the Near East) and their penmongers.
When the weapons fall silent? And when will so much biased journalism be silent ?
We who live in Syria, we are really tired, nauseated by this general indignation that is raised to condemn those who defend their lives and their land.
We have gone to Damascus several times in recent months; we went after rebel bombs had caused a massacre in a school, we were there a few days ago too, the day after they fell, launched from Goutha, 90 missiles on the government side of the city. We listened to the children's stories, the fear of leaving home and going to school, the terror of having to see their classmates get blown up again, or jump themselves, children who cannot sleep at night, for fear that a missile will land on their roof. Fear, tears, blood, death. These children are also not worthy of our attention?
Because public opinion didn't bat an eyelid, because no one was outraged, because no humanitarian or other appeals were launched for these innocent people? And why only and only when the Syrian government intervenes, arousing gratitude in Syrian citizens who feel protected from such horror (as we have seen and are told), we are outraged by the ferocity of the war?

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