Category: Vatican

[2018] Steve Bannon goes to war with the Pope

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Just as few realize how left-wing Bannon can be, few realize how his Catholicism is at the core of his politics. He still attends mass regularly. Bannon is convinced that capitalism is not working any more because we in the West have jettisoned the Judeo-Christian values that stopped the bosses and the bankers treating people like commodities. To reverse this, these values – and not necessarily a belief in God Himself – are enough.
— Read on spectator.us/steve-bannon-war-pope/

Steve Bannon’s nationalists can stay in medieval monastery (for now)

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In the first round of a lengthy legal battle, an Italian court has ruled in favour of a right-wing Catholic organisation which the Ministry of Culture is trying to oust from a historic abbey


— Read on web.archive.org/web/20191219233809/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/steve-bannon-s-nationalists-can-stay-in-medieval-monastery-for-now

or

An Italian Court Says Steve Bannon’s Far-Right Group Can Fight Its Eviction From a Medieval Monastery

‘Economic Nationalism’ vs. Libertarian Globalism Is the Battleground of 21st Century Politics

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

What I took away from the movie was less about whether Bannon might personally be able to scale Trumpism up to the international level and more about the realization that nationalism vs. globalism is the fundamental political cleavage in the 21st century. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have far more in common with each other than they do with many people in their own parties; one reason American politics is increasingly spiteful and stupid is because we’re speaking in terms—right-wing and left-wing, liberal and conservative, even socialist and capitalist—that have become outmoded. There are socialist populists and socialist internationalists, right-wing populists and right-wing internationalists, and on and on.
— Read on reason.com/2019/04/12/steve-bannons-economic-nationalism-is-th/