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“Independent media” made in USA – Myśl Polska
This article was originally published by Myśl Polska. State television holds the people for a bunch of thoughtless idiots, and this is undisputed. It serves them coarse propaganda on TVP1, TVP2 or TVP Info, which doesn’t make rational people even angry, but rather laugh. Watching the next news sites we see in front of our… Continue reading
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The European Union is an insufferable charade but it can emerge stronger after covid-19
The coronavirus epidemic has once again shown the true face of the European Union, just as the euro crisis in 2011 and the subsequent treatment of Greece showed. There are the beautiful slogans and proclaims of common values, solidarity and prosperity – and there is the hard, brutal and cold reality. Before this latest crisis,… Continue reading
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Putin has been waging war on American science for 10 years, writes the New York Times
Putin has waged war on American science and has run a campaign of health disinformation for a decade, the New York Times has argued in an article published on 13 April. According to the New York Times, this is “part of a wider effort to discredit the West and destroy his [Putin’s] enemies from within.”… Continue reading
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German lawyer who protested CoViD-19 quarantine in psychiatric hospital
Beate Bahner, a German lawyer from the city of Heidelberg who had filed a lawsuit to the German supreme court against the quarantine measures imposed by the German government to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, has been sectioned in a psychiatric hospital since Sunday, German media reports. Beate Bahner is a lawyer specialized in medical… Continue reading
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German arrogance will destroy the European Union
In recent years, Germany came to be seen as one of the few forces for good in the world: it took over a million refugees from Syria and other countries ravaged by war or simply poor; it led in the struggle against climate change and emissions, in particular after the Fukushima disaster, when it decided… Continue reading
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Italian PM Conte: “Insinuations about Russian aid offend me deeply”
In an interview with the BBC, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said Russian aid to Italy, until now the country that has registred the highest number of CoViD-19 deaths, has come with no strings attached. Answering to a question from BBC journalist Mark Lowen, who asked if Russia was planning to use aid to… Continue reading
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The EU may be a noble ideal, but its reality is grim
Defenders of the European Union argue that the institution may have flaws, but that it represents a noble ideal and for this reason the union must stand above everything else, like for example sovereignty, the will of the people in the individual nations and other petty and narrow-minded matters like national legislations. For the European… Continue reading
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The fake news about Russian fake news
Yesterday, once again, Russia was accused of spreading fake news by a European government. It was the UK turn this time, where government officials have rebuttedas fake news the news, reported by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, that the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who contracted the coronavirus, was put in intensive care on… Continue reading
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Diego Fusaro: “The European Union remains the main enemy of Italy”
The open society is coming to an end these days with the lockdown: the fuchsia-rainbows brigade of the “Bella Ciao” suddenly became a lover of drones and the army, mobile phone traceability and “law and order”. We would be laughing if we weren’t crying. Meanwhile, Albania has given its splendid lesson of dignity and solidarity… Continue reading
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Call for papers – East & West Journal
CALL FOR PAPERS Are you a student or a young scholar? Would you like to see your work published? Are you interested in international relations, history, political science, geopolitics, sociology, economics? For our first issue of “East & West Journal” coming out in June, we are making a call for papers. Your article must be… Continue reading
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Liberalism and the third world
To the so called third world, the periphery of the “civilized world”, the regions and countries that did not have the historical experience of capitalism and liberalism, the West offers a universal model of development and progress. This model of course cannot be implemented without the necessary financial means, and so the “civilized world” inevitably… Continue reading
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The true face of liberalism – Liberalism as anti-democracy
We used to be taught from childhood that public interests are higher than personal ones. All levels of social formation of a full member of society are saturated with this idea, starting from children’s fairy tales and cartoons, ending with history and religion. At each level of education of a spiritually healthy and highly moral… Continue reading
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Экс-президент Еврокомиссии Романо Проди: «Евросоюз рискует распасться»
В статье для газеты «Il Messaggero» итальянский политик Романо Проди, экс-президент Европейской комиссии, пишет, что после отказа Европейского совета договориться о выпуске общесоюзных облигаций ЕС рискует распасться. «Становится невозможным идентифицировать себя с сообществом, если члены этого сообщества не чувствуют общности, даже когда коллективные страдания достигают невыносимого уровня», – написал итальянец. «Если европейские правители реагируют только… Continue reading
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Итальянская газета La Stampa: «Из России больше военных, чем помощи»
Когда вечером прошлого воскресенья 9 российских самолетов с медицинским оборудованием и персоналом приземлились в Италии, многие итальянцы почувствовали благодарность за помощь, оказанную в один из самых трудных моментов в новейшей итальянской истории. Некоторые, однако, в том числе журналист La Stampa Якопо Якобони, увидели в доставке из России, в которой были российские военные вирусологи и эпидемиологи,… Continue reading
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Ex-President of the European Commission Romano Prodi: “The European Union risks to dissolve”
In an article for the newspaper “Il Messaggero” the Italian politician Romano Prodi, ex-President of the European Commission, wrote that after the refusal of the European Council to agree on the emission of union-wide bonds the European Union risks to dissolve. “It becomes impossible to identify with a community if the members of the same… Continue reading
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Italian newspaper La Stampa: “More military men than help from Russia”
When last Sunday night 9 Russian air planes arrived with medical equipment and personnel, many in Italy felt gratitude for the help delivered in one of the most difficult moments in recent Italian history. Some, however, including La Stampa journalist Jacopo Iacoboni, saw in the delivery coming from Russia, that included Russian military virologists and… Continue reading
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Could the coronavirus kill neoliberalism too?
It’s clear that neoliberalism as an ideology is dead. Rather than managing to self-regulate, markets simply collapse when exposed to black swan events, leaving the state and taxpayers’ money as the means of survival. Could the coronavirus kill neoliberalism too, in the same way it is killing thousands of people? With entire countries locked down… Continue reading
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Stop Fake: “Behind Russian aid to Italy there are German Neonazis”
The delivery of Russian aid to Italy was coordinated with the help of German “neonazis”, the Italian version of Stop Fake, the famous web operation whose statutory mission is to unmask fake news, has claimed. Russia sent several planes with medical equipment and doctors to Italy on Sunday, in an effort to help the country… Continue reading
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Is Italy NATO and the EU’s weakest link?
Many in Italy celebrated the arrival of 9 military planes from Russia on Sunday. Russia agreed to deliver aid in the form of much needed medical equipment, masks and doctors to the country most affected by the coronavirus pandemic. For many experts, however, in government quarters as well as in editorial rooms, Russia’s gesture was… Continue reading
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L’Italia è l’anello debole della NATO e dell’Unione Europea?
Molti in Italia hanno accolto con sollievo e gioia l’arrivo di 9 aerei militari russi domenica sera. La Russia ha accettato di fornire aiuti sotto forma di attrezzature mediche, maschere e dottori molto necessari nel paese maggiormente colpito dalla pandemia di coronavirus. Per molti esperti, tuttavia, in particolare nei quartieri governativi e nelle redazioni, il… Continue reading
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