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Stories and News No. 1260 They look like us, is this all our European longing for peace? I don't even want to think about it. But then I read and reflect. I read about the CBS reporter who states that Ukraine "is not a country, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflicts raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European land, a country where you would not expect it, or would hope for it to happen. " The former Deputy Attorney General of Ukraine, speaking of the invasion, who candidly declared to the BBC: "It is very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blond hair... being killed every day." But not only that, a French journalist on French TV: “We are not talking about Syrians fleeing the bombings of the Putin-backed regime. We are talking about Europeans who leave with cars that look like ours to save their lives." And the Telegraph reporter: “They look so similar to us. This...

Stories and News No. 1237 After being divided with only five players who took the knee - typical attitude of my countrymen - the Italian national football team, after much controversy, has agreed to not doing at all before the match with Austria. This gesture, I recall, consists of a symbolic stance against racism remembering the Black Lives Matter movement and moreover Colin Kaepernick’s protest. Up to now the debate on the opportunity to kneel has not been just an Italian quarrel. However, despite being convinced that the mere symbolic act is worth little if not accompanied by a contextual daily, active and concrete action, I am not at all surprised by those in Italy who prefer to see the players standing before the kick-off. Because historically the average italian citizen never kneels before powerful ideals, unless he obeys them because he feels obligated. On the contrary, he literally throws himself on the ground, even becoming a doormat, in front of the men he considers stron...

Stories and News No. 1166   Once upon a time a school. To be precise, when I say school , I mean the building, but also inside. At least in this short story the students and their precious teachers were one with the foundations, the supporting structure, the windows and the ceiling, as well as the walls. Walls which – it should always be remarked – are not only allowed to divide, but also to support and protect the weakest ones, not just the opposite. Well, the previous night someone left testimony of his thought, or delirium, on the walls next to the entrance gate. Italians first , this is the writing that children and parents saw the next morning. It would have been impossible not to see it, as it was very large. Some of the adults commented briefly on that, some complained about the usual carelessness by the education ministry, but most tried to ignore the aggressive message. It was certainly not a new phrase in their eyes and their ears; and it's well known. When...

Stories and News No. 835 I read that tonight there will be a meeting in Milan, Italy, of the political group ENF ( Europe of Nations and Freedom ) led by Matteo Salvini . There will be, among others right-wing leaders, Marine Le Pen . Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen. Matteo Salvini wanted to be Marine Le Pen. And Marine Le Pen wanted to be her father. However, Salvini and Le Pen, in the world’s tale, have always been the same person. O character... Once upon a time there was he , or she , as you like. No matter the genre and all its diversities, because the story must slide smoothly and, above all, be popular. There is no room, therefore, for social and moral complications. So, let the story be. Take Little Red Riding Hood and he comes in and starts to knock on every door and everyone is out, also the mother of the girl child before going to her sick old grandma waiting in the woods. "Enough of the wolves," he shouts. And so other slogans, all in their woods , ...

Stories and News No. 748 It seems that in Australia at least fifteen thousand young Italian immigrants work eleven hours a night, undergoing blackmail, abuse and even violence. 'Migrants' and 'immigrants', the same old story. It always depends where you start to read on... Once upon a time there the land of migrants. The land of migrants was so-called not by chance. The inhabitants lived always with the classic foot on the threshold. Ready to go. To escape. A whistle was enough. Come on, it’s time, let’s go! Or even a way that was just it. A more or less easily passing that would lead somewhere. Possibly there. It was the day when the migrants departed. Some of you might ask: if the inhabitants migrated, who remained in the land of migrants? Easy to say: the land. And all those who dreaming of a better tomorrow had left the present behind. Let alone the past. So migrants without the old land arrived to the new one. "Hello", the inhabitan...

Stories and News No. 697 Yet another news of an African American man killed by the police in the United States is everywhere. As the killings in 1919, the narrative presents the same unacceptable title. I'm tired of this... I offer radical solutions. Let’s ban the colors. Beautiful, huh? I know. Stop colors, stop racism. And stop to pair of useless words in overvalued meanings. White men and African American women, colored people or just black , yellows and mulattos , ebony skin and so on. All away, simplicity time. A few seconds and ... crash ! You will understand, without colors, no street lights too. So, among other billion basic things, no more books. Read as well as spells of black magic on white pages . Because that’s what writing stories is. Pure magic, nothing less, and much more. I cannot abolish the colors? Let’s ban the skin, then. Brilliant, right? Muscles and tendons, blood and heart, all in plain sight. Stop again white girls and black chil...

Stories and News No. 696 The news about convictions and ongoing investigations on the new mafia in Rome, with plots between fascist criminal gangs, entrepreneurs and representatives of right and left parties is everywhere in Italy. Here is a satirical and fictional comment by an average citizen, an usual staunch defender of the native soil against the immigrant horde, preferred cause of his misfortune. The one who ever knows everything… I know I know it. I know everything. What? The Mafia in Rome? The Romanians, the gang of Romanians, I know them. No? Romania has nothing to do? They are black criminals? Africans, I knew. ... Oops. Black in the sense of fascist far right... I know and also you know: the bad apples are everywhere. What? They corrupt anyone, even to the leftists? The Chinese mob is behind, that’s sure. Those billions of restaurants… who knows what they hide in the kitchen. What do you say? The culprits took advantage of immigrants? ... Yet I kn...

Stories and News No. 693 The video showing the Cleveland police shooting a twelve years old African American boy has been recently shared . The blame? The child - because at twelve years old you are just a child, had a gun in his hands. A toy one... My name is Tamir Rice. Yes, my name is. Not was . Because the images remain. The words as well, I hope. For future wisest memory. More human, maybe I lost, all right. You have deleted me, defenders of the people. Heroes of the rights of all. Without cape or tights. But still recognizable among the common citizens. The so-called civilians. You have erased me from the game. However, let me say, you have made a serious mistake. In this game, as in the story that tells it. Dear paladins that save our roads, rules are important. The game rules are everything. They are clear, you cannot say the opposite. Even a child understands them. And even a child reminds them. There are few, among other things. Just three. The p...

Stories and News No. 685 Imagine I am a Nazi German general of World War II. The right-wing is… right, forgive the repeat, claiming that migrants carry infectious diseases. Right… I mean, they do well. It works. The method of disease works, I assure you. It worked for us. Let’s say we have used it. As evidenced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, as a recurring theme in our anti-Semitic propaganda, in order to deceive the public, we told that Jews were sowing diseases. To discourage non-Jews from entering the ghettos, seeing the real conditions of life, we put on the entrance signs warning that the ghetto was in quarantine, telling the population about the danger of highly infectious diseases. Since poor sanitation and lack of water and food rations were quickly undermining the health of Jews residing in ghettos, these warnings became a self-fulfilling prophecy when real infectious diseases decimated people of ghettos. Since the thing worked, you know, su...

Stories and News No. 660 What is illegal immigration? Really. When I enter a country illegally, I make a criminal action. I'm guilty. That’s what the law said. I was wrong. I did something unacceptable. That should not be made. It should be punished. I have to be punished. A reminder to me and the others. So that the guilty action will never be made again. I am not ironic or sarcastic, there is no hidden implication in my words. I am convinced. But... Let's be honest, come on. Image that I were a supermodel with blue eyes and blonde, brunette or red but also with important measures. Watch me now passing the borders illegally. Come one, you would find a paper for me. A paper? I would suddenly be in some movie or music video strictly half-naked. And if by chance I could arrive with my boat on the shores of your coast and at the same time I could prove to be special at sports, you will be soon able to accept me. Read it as the paradox of the sport clandesti...

Stories and News No. 606 Another clip from my new book, Different Loves : Something has changed in 1967 in USA, it is appropriate to say. A mixed marriage is for the first time the central theme in a successful movie. I'm talking of course about Guess who's coming to dinner . For those who do not remember, it was played by Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in the role of white parents and Sidney Poitier in the black unexpected new entry in the family. The plot is simple: Joey, a young white American girl, falls in love with Dr. Prentice (Sidney Poitier ), a black guy met during a vacation in Hawaii. The two plan to get married and she wants to go back to Switzerland with him. The film focuses on the return of Joey at home, in San Francisco, along with the boyfriend that she brings to dinner with the parents. The reactions of family and friends becomes the focal point. All ends well, with an optimistic end. Of course, if the new exotic arrival in the family had not be...

Different loves By Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher Tempesta Publisher From the prologue : About love. If you want that your stories meet great public’s favor, in this country you have to write about love. That’s what I heard one day. My luck is that in the world there are many kinds of love. There is love for the revolution. A blind infatuation for the change that, even before you try to build it, you dream it effortlessly with your open eyes, let alone closed. I refer to the Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce’s love for a new and pure France. Until his death. There is love for justice. An insatiable hunger, manageable only feeding with the person who created it, the culprit who lives undisturbed ahead our silent eyes, except those who have been directly affected by the crime. I am talking about Rita Schwerner’s love to challenge and defeat the passing time, waiting for the right moment, more than ever right to pay the bill to the offenders, all of them. Especially the last one....

I have the honor and pleasure at the same time to share with you the wonderful preface that Barry Bradford wrote for my new book, Different loves , Tempesta Publisher : THE POWER OF LOVE OVERCOMES THE LOVE OF POWER In these four remarkable pieces, the power of love to transform the world is on full and radiant display. If you want to make a major change in the world, there are many forces that work more quickly than the power of love. Money and dynamite can change circumstances very quickly. However, to bring about lasting, meaningful, powerful, change, there is no more powerful force in the universe than the power of love. The powerful essay containing an imaginary ending to the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, a notorious leader of the Ku Klux Klan for the murders known as "Mississippi Burning" particularly touched me. I played a role in the reopening of the actual case that led to Killen’s conviction 41 years to the day that three good men – J. E. Chaney, Mickey Schwerne...

Stories and News No. 599 From yet another fart by Silvio Berlusconi to an umpteenth tragedy at sea, with the usual unfortunate protagonists. At the moment we are talking about 94 dead and 250 missing. I read. I read articles, posts and comments on the web, from Right to Left, and I feel far away. Immensely away. The word bitterly, perhaps it would be more fair. May heaven bless the stories, saving island to land in... "Dad," Efrem, nine years old, asked. "Why are you smiling?" Tesfaye just minimally attenuates the curve that his lips draw. Yes, basically it is a smile. "Do you really want to know?" "Yes" "I smile because now no one can reject us... "No one can accuse us of being here to steal Italians’ job. "Tireless and punctual Italian workers. " Nobody will be able to indicate to us as accountable for the increase in crime in the country. "This country which is known worldwide for its honesty. ...

Stories and News No. 595 Let’s bury all Another case Trayvon Martin in the USA, that is how many newspapers have started the news. The problem is the adjective another. Jonathan Ferrell was 24 years old and was killed by a police officer who shot 12 times. What was Jonathan sin? He thought of having the right to ask for help after a car accident. Oh, I forgot one thing, sorry. Jonathan was African-American. In a video message, his mother said: "I do not want to bury my son. My son should bury me..." However, he is gone. So it goes. Well, if this grave must have a sense, let’s fill it as it deserves, once and for all. We buried a guy with infinite lives ahead, since many possibilities were waiting for him on the horizon. But with him, let’s bury the idiocy of the newspapers, the television, the cinema too, and also the books, when painting the black with the most mendacious captions. Bad, dangerous, dishonest, enemy, to be feared and rejected. Let’s bury w...

Stories and News No. 593 Once upon a time there were two parents. They had an only son, and, as almost always happens, both had placed on him hope in the future. In the past, when becoming a mother or father was just a word waved on the horizon, these expectations had become precious, especially for dark clouds of mistrust and fear following them along their respective paths. That is typical. So, the first day of school arrived. But with it, the clouds above were further blackened, predicting storms and cloudbursts without any mercy. The cause of this fatal nightmare was identical for both. Their little child would have been alone and helpless in the midst of an entire class of strangers. It was unacceptable to them and so they decided to transfer him to another school. As if to say, less contaminated. We are not racists, they said. We love our son, that’s it. Who could blame us? The following year, in the day starting the new journey between books and lessons, the infan...

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