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Stories and News No. 653 ) One hundred reasons not to die as children 1. Because I don’t want to die. 2. Because despite being poor, I am glad to be born. 3. Because when I laugh my mother seems less sad. 4. Because tomorrow is my birthday. 5. Because it was yesterday and I have not celebrated, but my dad has promised that next year will be different. 6. Because I make funny faces better than all my brothers. 7. Because I believe that one day I will run faster than Bolt. 8. Because last night I had a dream and I would do it again the next. 9. Because I have not yet learned how to talk, but when it will happen I will have a lot of things to say. 10. Because I have never seen the sea, and they told me it's beautiful. 11. Because when I’ll grow up I'm gonna be strong like Cristiano Ronaldo 12. Because if Obama became President of the United States, I have a few chances here too. 13. Because if I die, I want it to happen for a more important reason. 14. Because I...

Dear Americans, if you’ll vote for Romney you may sure to bet on a new war… From Mitt Romney on War and Peace : About Iraq (Jan 24, 2008): “It was the right decision to go into Iraq. I supported it at the time; I support it now.” About Iran (Nov 12, 2011): “Well, it's worth putting in place crippling sanctions. It's worth working with the insurgents in the company to encourage regime change in the country. And if all else fails, if after all of the work we've done, there's nothing else we can do beside take military action, then of course you take military action.” Stories and news : “invented” Stories, fruit of my imagination, inspired by “true” media News. Share the post:

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...

Stories and News No. 226 Do you remember the Iraq war ? The 2003 Gulf War? I’m referring to the second, not the first. Let’s talk about the second, it’s enough. Come on, that proud operation to find weapons of mass destruction , that indispensable task to combat Islamic terrorism , especially not to remain armless looking at the human rights violations by the cruel Iraqi regime. Hey, how can you not bless the so-called Coalition of the willing on a mission to bring peace and democracy to the victims of an ugly and bad tyrant like Saddam? Fortunately everything ended well. Well, let’s say it is just finished. That is, the willing show is over, with the end credits launched by Obama on August 31 this year. What about Iraq, now? What about Iraq, after paying at least 600,000 dead for joining the show called humanitarian war ? Behold, now it’s back to being one of too many countries in the world that continues to suffer inhuman crimes. New order, same abuses , as Amnesty International ...

Stories and News No. 144 Yesterday Wikileaks.org site posted a video. It is the recording of one of the many murders committed by mistake in Iraq. These are the consequences of the engagement rules, the unfortunate drawbacks of extreme remedies to extreme evils of this world. That’s our world, of course. Telephotos exchanged for rocket launchers. It happens. It happens too that Namir Noor Eldeen, Reuters reporter in Baghdad, his driver, Said Chmagh, and another 10 people die. This post is for those unnamed ten... The Story: Ten. Ten as the sign on the champions’ shirt back. Ten like the best rating. Like ten of us, chosen at random, by mistake or unfortunately. That’s irony of fate or calculated idiocy. Like anything else, all always depends on the point of view from which we look. The world is very different from the cockpit of a military helicopter, the living room, the ultra accessorized mobile, buried in an angry memory on the sky. Ten. Ten times one. Ten because of one. Like ...

Stories and News No. 48 The Story : Today is a great day for Iraq. Today is a great day for me too. Especially for me. I am six years old and I was born the 20th of March, in 2003, exactly the day when the invaders came to my country. With airplanes... With tanks... And with soldiers... Many have died ... People I care, a lot who I did not know, too many I will never do... Dad is no more here and mom always cries when he says is a real injustice that I was born with the war and I lived my first years on the smell of bombs and the dead, between the cries of pain and anger. She is probably right, but today is not the day of sorrow or anger. The moment of joy is finally here and I have never been so happy in my life. Because now in place of the explosions there is music in the streets. Some people sing... Some play because they can... And others do just because they are happy... Some people smile, even if they had forgotten how... And others has found a reason to leave their house that i...