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  • Breakthrough On The Niger Documents?
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Breakthrough On The Niger Documents? By Larry C Johnson Friday, 07 July 2006 at 18:35 The defeat of Silvio Berlusconi and the election of Silvio Prodi has changed the political dynamics in Italy and opened a door that may lead to some significant progress in identifying the origin of the fraudulent Niger documents.
    Phil Giraldi, a retired CIA intelligence officer and longtime Italy hand, penned the following analysis (and has kindly given me permission to post here):
    The arrest of two (…)

  • Diabetes and depleted uranium - Italian embassy refuses visa
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    June 29, 2006 - "You are not being truthful about the purpose of your visit to Italy. What is your interest in diabetes and depleted uranium?" the Italian consul in Bombay demanded to know.
    "I am just traveling to Italy to meet with Leuren Moret," the famous Indian doctor answered.
    Leuren Moret recounted the episode in an interview June 29, 2006. She said, "The doctor had never mentioned either diabetes or depleted uranium."
    The Italian government official was grilling one of the (…)

  • IMMIGRATING TO EUROPE: Italy May Loosen its Borders
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A left-wing minister just appointed by Prime Minister Romano Prodi has outraged his opponents with a plan to legalize any foreigner in Italy with a job. The dust-up recalls a recent controversy in the US over "amnesty" for illegal aliens.
    First it was the United States that began wrestling with how to deal with a ballooning illegal immigrant population. Next came Spain, as would-be African immigrants have begun targeting the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa as a possible new (…)

  • Blair in Rome: PRODI PROVOKES THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT
    27 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WE DON’T WANT BLAIR IN ROME
    In these days we have repeatedly asked the [Romano] Prodi government to abolish the obscene war parade of June 2. Why should the Holiday of the Republic be celebrated with lethal weapons and units of the occupation troops of Iraq and Afghanistan? Why not transform it into a holiday for everyone, eliminating the military presence? No answer: the parade has been confirmed.
    We have then asked the new president of the House, Bertinotti [Fausto Bertinotti, former (…)

  • Italian Communists Move Beyond Communism
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Il Manifesto
    Fausto Bertinotti, Secretary of the Italian Communist Refoundation Party (PRC), talks to Valentino Parlato, founding editor of the Communist daily Il Manifesto, about the challenges facing the next center-left government, the challenges to Marxist orthodoxy posed by the powerful rise of democratic mass movements, and the development of the Party of the European Left, a project which Bertinotti is leading in Italy. (Translated by Vittorio Longhi)
    These days much has been said (…)

  • Italian Court Confirms Prodi’s Victory
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A top Italian court Wednesday confirmed the slim electoral victory of center-left economist Romano Prodi over Premier Silvio Berlusconi, according to Italian television.
    Italian Sky TV news said the Court of Cassation confirmed the result after reviewing 5,200 ballots that were not immediately included in the overall count because they were unclear.
    The court said an official announcement about the review would not be made until later Wednesday.
    Prodi said he would not comment until (…)

  • General Election in Italy 2006: Great success for the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista in Italy!
    12 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Information on General Election in Italy 2006
    The result of our party is excellent: Rifondazione has increased its votes everywhere, both in percentage and in absolute votes: from 5% achieved at the 2001 election to 5.8% at the Chamber of Deputies or lower house (from 1,867,712 votes to 2,229,604) and 7.4% at the Senate, the upper house (from 1,707,175 to 2,518,624). 41 MPs will represent our party at the lower house (instead of 11) and 27 senators at the Senate (instead of 3). This is (…)

  • Billionaire Thailand PM gives Satan Sign before phony election
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Is the Thai PM telling the world that he is a satan worshipper?
    Thailand’s prime minister has a giant fortune, a loving and grateful family and the adoration of some, if not all, of his public.
    To that list he can now add what might appear every politician’s dream: an election without an opposition. Thaksin Shinawatra stands tomorrow in a poll in which his party’s only company on the ballot paper will be a list of fringe groups and "None of the Above" - the box that is his only (…)

  • Berlusconi: "Italy is for White people only"
    30 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Berlusconi Warns Against Multiculturalism By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press Writer Tue Mar 28, 10:04 AM ROME - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he does not want Italy to become a multiethnic, multicultural country, drawing plaudits from a right-wing ally and criticism from center-left opponents. Berlusconi, a conservative, faces a stiff challenge in next month’s national election, with opinion polls putting him behind his opponent, former premier Romano Prodi. The (…)

  • Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism, 1932
    28 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history. Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) over the course of his lifetime went from Socialism - he was editor of Avanti, a socialist newspaper - to the leadership of a new political movement called "fascism" [after "fasces", the symbol of bound sticks used a totem of power in ancient Rome].
    Mussolini (…)