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  • Tutto sulle elezioni politiche del 9 aprile 2006 CIRCOSCRIZIONE ESTERO
    5 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    VOTO ALL’ESTERO: TRE DATE IMPORTANTI
    A ciascun elettore residente all’estero e iscritto all’Aire(Anagrafe dei cittadini italiani residenti all’estero), - che non abbia optato per il voto in Italia -, il Consolato competente invia per posta, entro il 22 marzo, un PLICO contenente: un foglio informativo che spiega come votare, il certificato elettorale, la scheda elettorale (due per chi, avendo compiuto 25 anni, può votare anche per il Senato), una busta completamente bianca, una busta già (…)

  • The true horror of Benghazi
    1 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Gennaro Carotenuto
    Translated from Italian into English by Mary Rizzo, member of Tlaxcala, the network of translators for linguistic diversity (www.tlaxcala.es). This translation is Copyleft
    The police of the Libyan dictatorship of Muammar Gheddafi massacred ten persons yesterday in Benghazi. Yes, for sure, that Calderoli is a piece of shit , but is it ever possible that no one criticises Gheddafi and his police anymore?
    We are living in a horrifying moment for the media, for (…)

  • The Italian leader is not fit to hold high office, and activists worldwide should join to ensure his election defeat
    7 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Berlusconi victory would be as damaging as was Bush’s
    by Tristram Hunt
    In typically vulgar style, Silvio Berlusconi committed himself last week to sexual abstinence until the Italian general election on April 9. Unfortunately, Mrs Berlusconi’s well-earned break promises to come at the expense of European politics. For a determined Berlusconi could well win himself another term in office.
    Some 15 months ago the global progressive community headed to America in a forlorn attempt to (…)

  • Fascism as it was in Italy
    2 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My wife was born in Italy,and grew up attending school with Mussolini’s daughter. Members of her family had different opinions about the government, but dissention was tolerated. None of the anti government voices were silenced. Nobody was beaten or kicked with jackboots.
    I point this out because of the Cindy Sheehan controversy. My wife assures me that many citizens of Italy during WW II were opposed to losing their sons in war, and speaking out was not considered a crime. IF T-shirts had (…)

  • Deliberate birth of an activist: Fo runs for mayor in Milan
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Richard Owen in Milan
    OUTSIDERS, says Dario Fo, think of Milan in terms of fashion and style, "but the people who run the city have neither elegance nor moral values. This used to be a city in which engineers, architects and artists all thrived."
    That’s why Italy’s finance and fashion capital could soon find as its mayor the Nobel prize-winning playwright, a man with a reputation as an anarchic clown and a merciless, sharp-tongued satirist of the rich and powerful.
    At his flat in a (…)

  • Opera downsizes as Italy’s divas go on hunger strike
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Singers and staff take drastic action in protest at budget cuts
    by Barbara McMahon in Rome
    Opera lovers in Italy this season may notice something different about the performers. Many of them are looking distinctly svelte after going on hunger strike to protest about proposed cuts to the country’s arts budget. Living on only water, fruit juice and coffee, singers’ weights have shrunk.
    Barbara Vignudelli, a soprano at the famed La Scala opera house in Milan, has had no solid food for two (…)

  • BOOK ON CIA’s SECRET JAILS: "Operation Hotel California" by Guido Olimpio
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The first book-length expose of CIA kidnappings and prisons — two of the greatest evils in the Bush government, and the world — by the Italian investigative journalist Guido Olimpio is here, and it’s new and as current as todays news stories about secret jails the CIA runs! The book is a must-read for anyone wanting to know about the CIA’s practice of "rendition": kidnapping people and transporting them to places like Egypt for torture. It’s an extremely controversial practice, a threat to (…)

  • Kucinich Demands IG Investigation Into FBI’s Handling Of Investigation Into Forged Niger Documents
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FBI Drops Investigation Just As Italians Make A Potential Break In The Case; Kucinich Sends Department Of Justice A Letter Demanding Investigation
    WASHINGTON - November 4 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG), Glenn A. Fine, demanding an IG investigation of the FBI’s handling of the situation.
    The letter, sent today, states:
    Dear Inspector General Fine:
    I am greatly dismayed to learn that without answering any (…)

  • The life and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The career and achievement of the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is being celebrated thirty years after his brutal murder, but the political controversy surrounding his death haunts Italy still.
    by Geoff Andrews
    In the early hours of 2 November 1975, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini - writer, poet, film director and one of Italy’s leading intellectuals - was found on wasteland in Ostia, just outside Rome. Several hours later, Pino “The Frog” Pelosi, a 17-year-old male prostitute, was (…)

  • Prodi Wins Italy Primary, Faces Berlusconi
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former Premier Prodi Wins Italian Primary, Will Face Berlusconi in Next Year’s Election
    By ALESSANDRA RIZZO
    Former Italian premier Romano Prodi won a sweeping victory in a nationwide primary, according to near-final results released Monday, and will challenge conservative Premier Silvio Berlusconi in next year’s election.
    The results showed Prodi, the center-left candidate who also is a former European Commission president, won 74.4 percent of the vote. More than 99 percent of votes (…)