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The strategy of demonising of Russia

Rome (Italy) | 27 September 2018
The strategy of the European populist parties linked to Steve Bannon has run into a difficult contradiction. Logic would seem to indicate that they should be seeking a rapprochement with Russia, as the Italians have done, for example. But their US sponsor is working in the opposite direction - to sabotage the economy and the political confirmation of Moscow.

Trees slaughtered, Camp Darby made more potent

Rome (Italy) | 22 September 2018
Since the reorganisation of 2012, the US base of Camp Darby in Italy no longer houses the field hospitals for the Middle East. It has become both a vast reserve for the grocery stores of other Western American bases and a gigantic arsenal. Far from shrinking, as had been announced, the camp just keeps getting bigger.

The new iron curtain

Rome (Italy) | 20 September 2018
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have begun the construction of a new iron curtain which separates Northern Europe in two. The point is to remind people of the way in which the Soviet Union built an identical wall to prevent Central European refugees from fleeing to the West. And yet for the moment there is no significant migratory movement towards Russia.

Largest US weapons store – in Italy

Rome (Italy) | 12 September 2018
At the end of the Second World War, allied troops occupied the European continent. While France and Russia have withdrawn today, the United States and the United Kingdom still maintain troops there. For the last year, planning for a world war against China and Russia, the Pentagon is using numerous bases in Italy to massively increase the storage of its weapons in Europe, including nuclear bombs.

A sovereignist Italy without sovereignty

Rome (Italy) | 5 September 2018
Far from leading the sovereignist policy that it claims to honour, the Conte government has engaged in Libya under US command. True sovereignty is not measured by speeches, but by actions, particularly in the respect of one’s own Constitution.

Bridges collapsed and bridges bombed

Rome (Italy) | 29 August 2018
Of course, we were all horrified by the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa. Manlio Dinucci reminds us here that the company which managed this work of engineering had been privatised… in order to pay for the destruction of bridges in Serbia by the Italian army. This was in 1999, under the orders of NATO.

The warmonger’s response to negotiation

Rome (Italy) | 26 July 2018
The conflict between transnational financial capitalism and productive national capitalism has entered into a paroxystic phase. On one side, Presidents Trump and Putin are negotiating the joint defence of their national interests. On the other, the major daily newspaper for the US and the world is accusing the US President of high treason, while the armed forces of the US and NATO are preparing for war with Russia and China.

The US establishment behind the Helsinki Summit

Rome (Italy) | 20 July 2018
While the international Press distorted the content of the NATO Summit, the US establishment pefectly understood the unique issue – the end of enmity with Russia. Thus disturbing the bilateral summit in Helsinki between the USA and Russia became its priority. By all means possible, it had to prevent any rapprochement with Moscow.

Expandable and always more expensive, NATO is spreading across Europe

Rome (Italy) | 15 July 2018
Working like machines programmed from their creation, the administrations of NATO and the EU are pursuing their project free from all political control. The military and civil bureaucracies born of the US occupation of Western Europe are bent on defending the interests of the transnational élite without paying any attention to the wish of the People.

NATO, super-headquarters as expandable as war

Rome (Italy) | 14 July 2018
Great symbolic importance is given to the fact that it is the first Summit convened in the new headquarters of the Alliance, which has so far cost 1.3 billion Euros or $1.5 billion (but the real price, 7% of which is borne by Italy, is still to be established): it’s a structure of over 2.5 million square feet, almost double the previous one, where a permanent staff of about 4,000 military and civilians works, equipped with 18 large halls where more than 5,000 meetings are held annually with (...)

The USA and NATO ousts crisis-ridden EU

Rome (Italy) | 4 July 2018
President Trump remains compelled by the US system to defend NATO, currently the main tool of transnational imperialism. Despite his attempts, his vassals refuse to free themselves and make their own way. He is therefore pursuing the policies of his predecessors by infantilising the Europeans and turning them against Russia. Anticipating a possible dissolution of the European Union, some of its members have engaged a little more deeply in NATO.

Neocolonialism and the « migrant crisis »

Rome (Italy) | 28 June 2018
The « migrant crisis » is currently diminishing in Europe, but will probably amplify dramatically in the next few years. The gigantic population displacements which are in preparation are the consequence of the on-going economic exploitation of Africa.

The Circuit of Death in the « Greater Mediterranean »

Rome (Italy) | 20 June 2018
A very strange traffic is crossing the Mediterranean – in one direction, weapons to Africa and the Middle East – in the other, refugees who are the victims of these weapons. Unsurprisingly, the European political leaders are pretending not to know the main cause of these migrations.

The USA and the EU quarrel, but remain united against Russia and China

Rome (Italy) | 13 June 2018
It is particularly important, in this period of accelerated evolution of international positions, not to become blinded by one element or another, but to conserve all the elements under close scrutiny. By observing simultaneously the G7, NATO and the OCS, geographer Manlio Dinucci reveals the direction chosen by the Western powers.

Italy, Behind the Parade

Rome (Italy) | 8 June 2018
The event on June 2nd (the day in 1946 when Italy became a Republic) was not a military parade, not even a parade, but a "review", according to the Ministry of Defense that directed it (Minister Pinotti’s final act).
The parade at the Fori Imperiali - in front of the newly-installed government - was symbolically opened by 330 mayors representing civil society, followed by all the sectors of the Armed Forces, to celebrate "Italians’ Day - United for the Country”.
In his message, President of (...)