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The Fear Virus Pandemic

Rome (Italy) | 28 February 2020
The exaggeration of the dangerousness of the coronavirus compared to other diseases and the preparation of the response of the main actors two months before the epidemic leave one stunned. It is not possible to draw any conclusions at this time.

The future of "America", increasingly armed

Rome (Italy) | 21 February 2020
The federal government of the United States is responsible for defense and foreign policy, as well as the prosecution and adjudication of federal crimes. The new budget plans to close large agencies whose role is constitutionally vested in the states. It chooses to make no cuts in military spending although US troops in the broader Middle East and Africa are to "come home" in the last year of President Trump’s first term. Instead, Washington will expand its arsenal.

Greece - the clearance sale of military bases to the United States

Rome (Italy) | 17 February 2020
The United States have profited cleverly from Greece’s financial problems in order to force them to sign a contract which would enable the USA to block the ocean passage from the Black Sea to Russia. Only the Greek Communists and their allies opposed them.

China, and not only Iran, is targeted by the USA

Rome (Italy) | 25 January 2020
Independent of the questions directly concerning Iran, the United States are worried about the relations that Iran maintains with China. Progressively, Beijing is relying on Tehran to realise its gigantic project for the New Silk Roads in Asia.

What is the real nuclear threat in the Middle East?

Rome (Italy) | 13 January 2020
The announcement by Iran of its withdrawal from the 5+1 nuclear agreement (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) in response to the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani will mean nothing since the United States have already cancelled their participation. It is far more worrying that Israël has its own genuine nuclear arsenal, and could be tempted to use it in case of a withdrawal of American troops from the Middle East.

US strategy and what the gas pipeline war is costing us

Rome (Italy) | 30 December 2019
After having forbidden the Chinese company Huawei to compete in the calls for tender for the 5G network, the United States are now forbidding the Europeans to increase their supplies of Russian gas. While the first decision was aimed at maintaining the coherence of NATO, the second is not a result of Russophobia, but of the 1992 « Wolfowitz doctrine » - preventing the EU from becoming a competitor of the « American Empire ». In both cases, the point is to infantilise the EU and keep it in a situation of dependence.

3,000 billion dollars into the bottomless well of Afghanistan

Rome (Italy) | 21 December 2019
The documents that the Washington Post has managed to make public concerning the war against Afghanistan do not show that the United States have failed to pacify that country. On the contrary, they show that the Pentagon is still faithfully following the strategy of « endless war » elaborated by Donald Rumsfeld and Admiral Arthur Cebrowski. The military operation which was supposed to last no more than a few weeks has been deliberately prolonged for 18 years.

The Hidden Military Use of 5G Technology

Rome (Italy) | 13 December 2019
The operation organised by the "Five Eyes" against Huawei aims exclusively to ensure that 5G technology in the West will not be controlled by a Chinese company. As a Pentagon report attests, this civilian technology is primarily used for military purposes.

NATO Summit: War Party Strengthens

Rome (Italy) | 8 December 2019
NATO no longer has the same dynamics as it had during the Cold War. But it remains a nuclear military alliance, first against Russia, but now also against China. It works perfectly as shown by the war against Syria up to the US withdrawal and the support to the Sahelian governments up to now.

The Summit sends NATO into space – at exorbitant cost

Rome (Italy) | 7 December 2019
Just like the Atlantic Alliance, the NATO Summit of 4 December will be a staged event during which the vassals will sign up for even greater expenditure imposed by their overlord. No-one knows what the Pentagon has prepared, but they will all have to approve it.

Italy in the « Antiterrorist Coalition »

Rome (Italy) | 30 November 2019
The Antiterrorist Coalition met on 14 November 2019 in Washington, at the specific request of France, which was confused by the changes of US policy in Syria. This meeting changed nothing concerning the strategy of the USA and its allies, but enabled Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to remind the French of their role as simple ’worker bees’. It is also an occasion for Manlio Dinucci to publish an update on the exploits of this Coalition.

4 November – see Naples and die

Rome (Italy) | 23 November 2019
The economy of Naples is slowly changing, to become increasingly centered on the basis of the presence of NATO. The young troops involved do not come mainly from the Naples region, but in general from all of Southern Italy, severely penalised by a level of unemployment among young people which is three and one half times superior to the European average. The money invested in the development of these military installations is not only far from an indispensable expense, but is now absent from the economy of Southern Italy.

“The Caliph”, a CIA blockbuster between fiction and reality

Rome (Italy) | 1 November 2019
It is a well-defined product. At the end of a vast special operation in which an unavowable weapon was used, it is necessary to stage the death of the person who wielded it. This is the best way to erase the traces in public opinion. After Bin Laden’s death, this is al-Baghdadi’s death

NATO behind the Turkish attack in Syria

Rome (Italy) | 25 October 2019
Several members of NATO are currently weeping crocodile tears about the terrible luck of the Kurds, thus masking the fact that they had in fact green-lit « Operation Peace Spring » in advance. To crush any doubt, the General Secretary of the Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, journeyed in person to Ankara, three days after the beginning of combat, to declare NATO’s support for Turkey.

Erdogan wants the Bomb

Rome (Italy) | 23 October 2019
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted to the impending removal of the US nuclear arsenal from his soil by announcing Turkey’s intention to build one of its own. This is both legitimate in the face of the Israeli nuclear threat and a step in the worst direction.