- Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini announced a bill to withdraw Italy from the World Health Organization (WHO), echoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s similar move.
- The proposal seeks to redirect Italy’s annual €100 million ($103.87 million) contribution to the WHO toward domestic healthcare.
- Critics of the bill, such as renowned scientist Elena Cattaneo, argue that it is motivated by “scientific nationalism” and could hinder global health efforts.
- The potential withdrawal of Italy and the recent U.S. departure from the WHO could significantly destabilize the organization and threaten its ability to address global health emergencies.
- The move is seen as a broader shift towards reclaiming national sovereignty in public health policy and challenging the dominance of unelected supranational bodies.
(Natural News)—In a bold move echoing the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump, Italy has put forward its desire to withdraw from the globalist World Health Organization (WHO).
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini announced on Jan. 23 that his Lega party has introduced a bill to withdraw the country from the WHO. The proposal was filed by Sen. Claudio Borghi and Deputy Alberto Bagnai on the same day as Salvini’s announcement. The bill filed by the two Lega lawmakers seeks to repeal Rome’s 1947 legislative decree binding it to the global health body.
“Italy must no longer have to deal with a supranational power center – handsomely financed by Italian taxpayers – which goes hand in hand with the multinationals of the drug,” remarked Salvini, who also serves as Italy’s infrastructure and transportation minister. His comments reflect growing skepticism about the WHO’s role in global health governance and its alignment with multinational pharmaceutical interests.
Salvini emphasized that the €100 million ($103.87 million) Italy contributes annually to the WHO could instead be redirected to support Italian patients, hospitals and doctors. Microbiologist Maria Rita Gismondo expressed agreement with the proposal, stating that Italy’s motivations for pulling out of the WHO are “more than founded and absolutely concrete.”
However, critics of the bill have been quick to voice their opposition – among them Elena Cattaneo, internationally renowned scientist and a senator for life in the Italian parliament. She dismissed the Lega proposal as “scientific nationalism, the safest recipe for crashing into the wall of ignorance and superstition.”
Yet, Cattaneo’s ties to the United Nations – the WHO’s parent organization – raise questions about her impartiality. She has been associated with the UN’s “Not a Woman’s Job?” campaign that promotes gender equality in science, suggesting a potential conflict of interest.
Global health shake-up: U.S. and Italy challenge WHO’s authority
Salvini’s sentiment aligns with Trump’s criticism of the WHO, which he accused of mishandling the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and being unduly influenced by member states like China.
Trump’s executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO, signed shortly after his second-term inauguration, set a precedent for nations questioning the organization’s effectiveness and independence. The U.S. departure, which will take effect after a 12-month notice period, has already forced the WHO to implement cost-cutting measures – including a hiring freeze and travel restrictions. Italy’s potential exit could further destabilize the organization, which relies heavily on contributions from its largest donors. (Related: US departs from the World Health Organization – cutting off a predatory, global oligarchy that has destroyed public health for billions.)
The WHO, a specialized agency of the UN, has long been criticized for its bureaucratic structure and susceptibility to political influence. Trump’s accusations that the organization “ripped off” the U.S. and failed to act independently during the COVID-19 pandemic resonate with those who view the WHO as a tool of globalist agendas. The U.S. withdrawal coupled with Italy’s potential exit signals a broader shift toward reclaiming national sovereignty in public health policy.
Critics argue that weakening the organization could jeopardize critical programs addressing tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and other global health emergencies. However, proponents of the bill see it as an opportunity to prioritize national interests and challenge the dominance of unelected supranational bodies.
Italy’s move to leave the WHO is not merely a political statement; it is a call for greater accountability and transparency in global health governance. By following Trump’s lead, Italy is asserting its commitment to health freedom and sovereignty, challenging the status quo, and demanding a more equitable and effective approach to public health.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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