Stories and News

Stories and News No. 1250 Once upon a time there was the casualties’ count. The right one, which grows out of all proportion with the passage of time, thanks to the good will of a few, even just one, and thanks to an innate predisposition to imagine the lives of others, there, where the conscience burns most. Therefore, let's start from afar, so that the final figure is as respectful as possible of what really or tacitly happened. May, 1981. Bobby Sands dies after two months of hunger strike and reggae legend Bob Marley disappears; John Paul II was seriously injured in an attack on St. Peter's Square and Donna Payant achieved the sad record as the first prison officer of the United States killed on duty. In short, other victims, fortunately survivors of death or died in the guise of martyrs, destined to become a legend or a simple anecdote for record-breaking. In the same month, same year, Alice Sebold is among the folds of history . Female, eighteen years old, white, Cauc...

Stories and News No. 990 Fire killed three sisters, respectively 4, 8 and 20, in a parked caravan on the outskirts of Rome. After discovered residual flammable liquid , Italy prosecutors are investigating with the accusation of voluntary homicide . Up till now, many reactions from those who learn this horrible news may be relatively identical or very similar, unless we specify that we are talking about Roma people … Once upon a time there was a substance. A liquid , but do not figure anything light or transparent comparable to its perfection the water. Imagine an abnormal amount of such a mixture, a smelly mud, as a sea. Indeed, an ocean. Or, if you might visualize a greater and uglier mass, choose it, paint it in your mind. In order that you fear it as what it is, so that you start to worry and work since the final word of this nasty story. As an unspoken mass, ocean, sea, it also feeds on his cursed, more or less conscious, branches. Damned rivers, which continuously f...

Stories and News No. 953 Last Sunday there was an attack at the mosque in Quebec City, Canada. Six people were killed and nineteen wounded . In the following days a man was arrested and charged with premeditated murder, Alexandre Bissonnette , 27 year-old, university student with far-right sympathies , especially for Trump and Marine Le Pen . Obvious rule for “unpopular terrorist attacks”, in a few hours the fact has practically disappeared among the greatest, so-called news sources, not to mention the absolute absence of the usual manifestations of virtual-social solidarity with the victims, as “We are all Canadian” or even Muslims. However, in a small, local newspaper with high ambitions, Ambidextrous News , something unusual happens... "Boss?" Says the youngest among the reporters, recently arrived to the newspaper, a freelance and above all no money guy. "Who is it?" Asks the chief and publisher’s son. He gave the name to the newspaper, believing t...

Stories and News No. 927 Sunny Pawar, young Indian actor in the upcoming film Lion, with Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara, has been denied a visa by the United States to attend the movie's premiere in New York. We believe it is the effect of immigration paranoia, production company executives have declared . Come on, let's sit down, soon. Yes, there is fine, hurry up, the movie is going to begin. No advertising, this time, because the product was already bought. Simple plot, indeed. Trivial, I dare say, but very effective for this reason, necessarily minimizing and fairly superficial. So that everyone can see just enough to believe that everything is there. The story in brief: They were afraid, the opening words . They were afraid of what they did not understand , in detail. End? A long time ago I would say yes, it would work, but every age needs the right tricks and special effects seriously capable to impress the eyes. Well, let’s add: They were afrai...

Stories and News No. 770 The alleged perpetrator of an abuse on a sixteen years old girl was arrested in Rome, Italy. He is a thirty-one man from the province of Cosenza , Calabria , a soldier of Defense Ministry , Navy . If we were in a racist country. If we were in a racist country, this equation would echo in the minds of many: the men from Calabria are all rapists . Especially those from the province of Cosenza . And automatically, in the same superficial cervical, should take the same association if a guy arrived on the public square stating: my name is Giuseppe , a name at random, and I am from Calabria . What town? The citizens with the weak skull would ask. The province of Cosenza , the man could answer. And so here are the suspense, suspicious looks, easy convictions and isolation of the potential brute. With all the suffering for him. If we were in a racist country, as powerful the following conclusion should rebound: the soldiers are all rapists . Especially...