Italian Legislators Seek To Secure Their Existence And Future For Italian Children By Outlawing English Use By Citizens

The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. – L.P. Hartley, The Go-Betweens.

Accurate. And sometimes a foreign country wants to be the past. Somewhere between a faded photo of Benito Mussolini’s inverted corpse and an ill-received performance by the Stormtroopers of Death at the Teatro alla Scala lies this inexplicable decision to return Italy to its nationalistic roots.

Italian Legislators Seek To Secure Their Existence And Future For Italian Children By Outlawing English Use By Citizens

Reminds me of somewhere else.

Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek

One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan. The theorist’s best idea—according to this well-known publication that is a virtual arm of the U.S. State Department—is that “the big revolution the left is waiting for will never come.”

Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek

Related:

Upcoming: Gabriel Rockhill | Why Slavoj Žižek is Capitalism’s Court Jester (YouTube)

The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia

Western Media Whitewashing Extremism in Ukraine

Dec 19, 2022 – Forbes has published an article attempting to dismiss concerns over extremism among the ranks of Ukraine’s armed forces as Russian propaganda, but admits that it had been a problem that Ukraine has since “fixed.”

Unfortunately, a screenshot included in the article is from a video that proves exactly the opposite – that extremism in Ukraine’s armed forces is worse than ever and openly benefiting from Western weapons and equipment flooding the country.

References:

Forbes – Ukraine Deradicalized Its Extremist Troops. Now They Might Be Preparing A Counteroffensive

Western Media Whitewashing Extremism in Ukraine (Odysee) via The New Atlas

What next for populism?

Benjamin Teitelbaum – academic and author of ‘War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right’ [US-War for Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers]– is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Benjamin and Brendan discuss the mystical philosophies of Steve Bannon and Alexander Dugin, and why populist movements are so misunderstood.

What next for populism? (YouTube)

Steve Bannon, Fraser Anning And A Robot Sex Expert Are Launching A Think Tank Together

Steve Bannon, Fraser Anning And A Robot Sex Expert Are Launching A Think Tank Together

The Institute’s website outlines a extremely socially conservative and economically protectionist manifesto: they’re anti-free trade, anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion, low taxing and for small government. They also promote “social cohesion by an immigration program that gives preference to those best able to integrate and assimilate”, a racist dogwhistle that echoes some of the founders’ anti-immigration views.

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