Stories and News

Stories and News No. 279 " Berlusconi is incompetent, vain and ineffective as a modern European leader, a leader physically and politically weak leader, his often long nights at parties mean he does not rest enough." Not to mention the political weakness of Medvedev compared to Putin, the servile relationship between our Prime Minister and the latter, the mafia in Russia, the U.S. aversion against Sarkozy and Ahmadinejad… Sorry… but where the sensational revelations by Wikileaks are? I hope - from a purely intellectual point of view - that in the coming days something more original will come out. On the other hand, it is interesting to observe the reactions by Berlusconi’s politicians to the recent publications by Wikileaks. I read the considerations by Minister Frattini and La Russa, Capezzone, Gianni Letta and I also learned that Berlusconi laughs. So, exploring the web, I got yet another scoop! It seems that Silvio’s loyalists want to punish Julian A...

Stories and News No. 255 It was inevitable that sooner or later, among the huge number of documents on the Iraq war recently published by Wikileaks , some revelation on Italy emerged. Today two news belie the Italian army and the Government releases on the facts. According to the former , at the beginning of August 2004 Italian soldiers blew an ambulance , killing four people , including a pregnant woman . That contradicts the official report, which speaks of a generic car that did not stop at the check point, also responding to the fire. However, the second news particularly affects my attention. For Julian Assange ’s website, the Italian soldier Salvatore Marracino did not shot himself because of his weapon jam. He was killed . In ' warglish ', he has been accidentally shot by friendly fire … The Story: Friendly fire, so they call me. Yes, you perfectly understood. I am not an oxymoron , as some insinuate. If so, then what about humanitarian war , preventive invasion o...

Stories and News No. 250 Today, two news particularly caught my attention. The former is the imminent publication by Wikileaks of about 400,000 secret documents on the Iraq war. At the time of writing this post, the site is ' currently under scheduled maintenance ', waiting to give the people of the world wide web its hottest files. Meanwhile, these people are practically clogging it of visits, despite U.S. government has prepared a task force to respond. Wikileaks also informed that the U.S. authorities have directly contributed to the blocking of donations on the site. Nevertheless, this represents an extraordinary marketing campaign for them, don’t you agree? The latter news regards Silvio Berlusconi . I refer to the last episode of Report , an indipendend Italian journalistic TV program, which recently accused Berlusconi of having illegally bought some villas in the islands of Antigua. Thanks to anticipations in many media and particularly on the bril...