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Bannon demands ‘Sovereignty’ from Brussels, but not from Washington

Rome (Italy) | 29 May 2018
Steve Bannon – Donald Trump’s former strategist and theorist of national-populism - expressed his enthusiastic support for the alliance of the Lega with the 5 Star Movement for "the government of change." In an interview he stated: "The fundamental question, in Italy in March, was the question of sovereignty. The result of the elections was to put into office those Italian citizens who want to regain sovereignty and control over their country, and to put an end to the rules coming from (...)

Israeli F-35s already at war

Rome (Italy) | 25 May 2018
"We are flying the F-35 all over the Middle East, and have already attacked twice on two different fronts". General Amikam Norkin, Commander of the Israeli Air Force, made this announcement on 22 May at the conference on aerial superiority at Herzliya (a suburb of Tel Aviv), with the participation of the Air Force chiefs of staff from 20 countries, including Italy.
The general did not specify where the F-35’s had been used, but he hinted that one of the attacks was carried out in Syria. He (...)

For Italy – a new government, the same "privileged ally"

Rome (Italy) | 24 May 2018
The "Contract for the Government of Change" - stipulated by Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini on behalf of the 5 Star Movement and the League - on the one hand "confirms Italy’s membership of the Atlantic Alliance, with the United States of America as a privileged ally”, and on the other, promises "an open-minded attiutude to Russia, which should be perceived not as a threat but as an economic and commercial partner (which would imply the withdrawal of sanctions), to be rehabilitated as a (...)

Israel: 200 nuclear weapons aimed at Iran

Rome (Italy) | 20 May 2018
The din that surrounds the US withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal hides the real issues. The most important thing is this fundamental fact: Israel is a nuclear power while Iran is not one.

Nuclear parcel bomb from the USA

Rome (Italy) | 10 May 2018
The new B61-12 nuclear bomb - which the US is preparing to send to Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland and probably other European countries - is now in its final stages of development.
This was announced by General Jack Weinstein, deputy chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, responsible for nuclear operations, speaking on May 1 at a symposium of the Air Force Association in Washington, in front of a select audience of senior officers and military industry executives.
"The program is doing (...)

US Fleet with 1,000 missiles in the Mediterranean

Damascus (Syria) | 2 May 2018
The US aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, which set sail from the world’s largest naval base in Norfolk (Virginia), has entered the Mediterranean with its strike group.
The strike group consists of the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy and the guided-missile destroyers USS Farragut, USS Forrest Sherman, USS Bulkeley, and USS Arleigh Burke. Two others, USS Jason Dunham and USS The Sullivans, will rejoin the strike group at a later date. The German destroyer FGS Hessen is added to the Truman (...)

Seventy years of subjection to the US and NATO

Rome (Italy) | 25 April 2018
Manlio Dinucci summarizes seventy years of relations between Italy on the one hand, the United States and NATO on the other. Leaving aside the question of terrorism under false flag organized by the Alliance on Italian soil during the 70s, he notes only the commitment of the Italian armies on behalf of his "ally"; a story that speaks for itself.

Fake “made in USA” and lies “made in Italy”

Rome (Italy) | 17 April 2018
To motivate the 2003 war, the US accused Iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction: Secretary of State Colin Powell presented to the UN a series of "evidences" that turned out to be false, as he himself had to admit in 2016.
Similar "evidences" are now presented to motivate the attack on Syria by the United States, Britain and France. On 14 April, General Kenneth McKenzie, Joint Staff Director of the Pentagon, presented a report, accompanied by satellite photos, on the Barzah Research (...)

The Militarization of the European Union: Schengen Area Handed Over to US-NATO Forces

Rome (Italy) | 7 April 2018
The European Commission presented the Action Plan on Military Mobility on 28 March . “By facilitating military mobility within the EU, – explains the foreign representative of the Union, Federica Mogherini – we can be more effective in reacting when challenges arise”. Even if she does not say so, the reference to “Russian aggression” is evident.
The Action Plan was actually decided not by the EU, but by the Pentagon and NATO. In 2015, General Ben Hodges, commander of US gound forces in Europe (...)

Libya, seven years of misfortune Nato

Rome (Italy) | 24 March 2018
Seven years after NATO’s military intervention against Libya, all observers agree that it was based on a pack of lies and violated the mandate of the Security Council. Although the Western powers are now prepared to recognise that the population of Libya was the richest in Africa, and that its standard of living collapsed, provoking a massive exile, they are not yet aware that Mouamar Kadhafi had eliminated slavery and racism in his country. By destroying the State, NATO deliberately opened the gates of Hell. Not only were the black immigrant workers persecuted, but also the black Libyan citizens of Tawergha. Besides this, the Jamahiriya’s work of African cooperation between Arabs and blacks was reduced to nothing over the whole continent.

In the USA/NATO grip

Rome (Italy) | 13 March 2018
In 2006, Israël attacked Lebanon, hoping to crush Hezbollah and provoke a reaction from Syria. It is now preparing a new attack on Lebanon, hoping this time to trigger a riposte from Iran. In both cases, the game is rigged, because Israël depends on the United States. This scenario is the theme of the Juniper Cobra 2018 exercises .

Putin’s warning: The new Russian nuclear weapons

Rome (Italy) | 13 March 2018
The President Putin’s speech on the State of the Nation , dedicated to domestic and international issues, aroused little political-media interest and some ironic remarks in Italy. Yet it should be listened to with great attention.
Avoiding diplomatic roundabout expressions, Putin lays his cards on the table. He denounces the fact that in the past 15 years the United States fueled the nuclear arms race, trying to acquire a strategic advantage over Russia.
This is confirmed by the (...)

A recurring nightmare: U.S. missiles again in Comiso

Rome (Italy) | 27 February 2018
The plan was announced three years ago, during the Obama administration, when Pentagon officials declared: "In front of Russian aggression, the United States is considering the deployment of ground-based missiles in Europe" .
Now, with the Trump administration, the plan is officially confirmed. In the 2018 fiscal year the Congress of the United States authorized the financing of "a program of research and development of a ground-based mobile Cruise missile". It is a nuclear missile (...)

NATO has already voted before us

Rome (Italy) | 21 February 2018
Gavin Williamson (UK) and James Mattis (USA)
There is a party that, even if it does not appear, takes part in the Italian elections: the NATO Party. It is formed by a transversal majority, that explicitly or tacitly supports Italy’s membership of the Great Alliance under U.S. command.
This explains why, at the height of the electoral campaign, the main parties tacitly accepted the additional commitments undertaken by the government in the meeting of 29 Nato ministers of Defence (for (...)

Nato and nukes are not electoral themes

Rome (Italy) | 6 February 2018
During the election period the Italian Government remains in charge only for the «handling of current affairs». Nevertheless it is about to take on other binding commitments in NATO on behalf of Italy.
These commitments will be officialized in the North Atlantic Council, taking place in Brussels on February14-15 at a defense ministers’ level. (Roberta Pinotti for Italy).
The agenda has not yet been communicated. But it is already written in the «National Defense Strategy 2018», that the US (...)