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Stories and News No. 1288 Okay, this is very naive. I know, okay? But I'd like to write it anyway. It's not a story, but it fits. That is, in the sense that it fits on one page. Because while it takes immensely long when the question concerns a single person, moreover powerful and without any control, it takes very, very little, if there are many to want it, shout it, demand it. However weak and insignificant, oppressed or just neglected they are. It's like having the same dream, yes, but all at the same time. And then it no longer matters how simple and utopian the imagination is. Because when you multiply the most unattainable hopes among them, it is like rubbing two stones: from patience and tenacity to spark and fire, and let the light shines in the darkness. Let me explain: I'm talking about war, as I did this morning with a group of teenagers who are rightly anxious, worried, annoyed and even angry: “How is that? Was Covid not enough for you? War too? Also miss...

Stories and News No. 1176   It's war. That is, there is war , because we are talking about it again. But this does not mean that there was not already here. Because peace has a price, so the silence of newspapers and parliaments all over the world. And, sorry, it is still called war too. So let's go away, but only to come back soon, I promise. Perhaps with a lighter heart, though filled to the brim, and less closed eyes. Once upon a time, therefore, two children. Because that is what we are dealing with. An eternal and tireless child's play, but with very serious rules and often tragic consequences. It is a particular pastime, though, since time insists to stop it, rather than facilitating its run, ending up trapping the hands of the human watch by doing the same with the wings we could open, if only we had believed Icarus's dream. Anyway it is a brick game. Of cement, clay or plastic it makes no difference, although the latter has the further contraindi...

Stories and News No. 729 Once upon a time there was a man. One as many. A gentleman who is attentive to the world’s atrocities. Because abhorring horror means something. It must mean something. I cannot remember what, but it is important. You need despise if the script requires it. "Those uncivilized people", the man exclaimed that day in his balcony, speaking to his fellow neighbor of the front window. "The use chlorine gas bombs for their attacks. Did you hear that?" No reply. "Oh, I see, you are used to that, gosh. It's a shame, we should bomb them all, those guys with long beards and scimitar. " Ever quiet. "They are beasts, I'm not racist, but these are real animals. They also force children to kill in place of them, do you understand? " Nothing on the opposite side. "Of course you understand, it does not take a genius to see that this is a religious war, no jokes. Here we risk all, we must learn to defend oursel...

Stories and News No. 713 The recent fact of the pilot burned alive and subsequent hanging of prisoners by Jordanian government makes me want to be anything else. Everything but a human. And from there, listen to the story, watching the scene, observing the drama. As a mere spectator. Silently... Right now I am the oxygen. Burning with the man. But not dying, because I was not even alive before. You can exist without living. Without suffering for a valid reason. Or for unacceptable stupidity. I am the rope that tightens and steals breath. I am also new oxygen, this time imprisoned outside the thirsty lips. Killed. I am the prisons bars, on every part of the sides, fair effective, fair compassionate. Fair incredulous, more than anything else. I am the words sparingly scattered on the never quieted wounds, cooked to perfection by the not be suspected chefs. Unnamed suspects as these words they are screamed, raped and manipulated. Of Religion and oil, of power and g...

Stories and News No. 661 The German journalist of the Associated Press, Anja Niedringhaus , 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography, was killed in Afghanistan. In recent years, the woman brought her camera in many places where war and internal strife have left behind suffering and poverty. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from the Gaza Strip to Israel, from Pakistan to Turkey. These words are for her… Yes, they are important. They must be viewed with care. Taking all the time. Because between aggressors and offended there is always space. Sufficient space to do something. Even putting an end to the carnage. However, to do so we need to understand. We need to see. Well, run, Anja, run and shoot. Actually, no. Stand still where you are, very still. Because this time needs a steady hand. Or maybe because sometimes deserving attention life comes to you. Does it sound easy, telling so, right? It is not. It's never easy to be found in your house, where the truth...

Stories and News No. 621 Despite the end of the war was declared in 1945, Onoda continued to fight in the jungle until 1974... My name is Hiroo Onoda and I do not give up. This could be written now, on my tombstone. Monument in memory of a story that ends today. The story of a soldier. Hiroo Onoda and his war. This could be the subtitle. Nevertheless, there are various kinds of wars, and what sets it apart are more than ever the causes. The real causes. Especially against whom you fight. The enemy. The real one. However, as often happens, every story hides others. Invisible to most people. Except the protagonist. These are the joys and the sorrows of the leading actor. Perennially occupying the script, he cannot claim he had not seen. Yes, of course, it sometimes happens that a choice with such vehemence obliges us to fix a horizon among the many that we cannot consider another one. Nevertheless, obeying an order is not and never will be a real choice. The opposite ...

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Stories and News No. 430 According to the data gathered by the Sarajevo-based Research and Documentation Center, 11,541 persons were killed during the 1992-1996 siege of Sarajevo. This death toll includes 643 children... Today, 20 years later, Sarajevo does not forget ... Share the post:

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. 245 The inspiration for this post came to me reading the words addressed to Italian Minister for Defence Ignazio La Russa by one of the relatives of last victims sacrificed by our politicians for their - I stress - their wars: “ Minister, enjoy the show .” The show… Yes, the show, this is all now. A huge, tragic and horrible show. So huge that we have no perception of where the scene ends and the audience starts. So tragic that any tears at this point become inevitably useless. And so horrible as to be now part of the so-called normality. The best example of what I'm saying is, in my humble opinion, the sad story of Sarah Scazzi , a young girl recently killed by her uncle. I am not a man of faith, I wrote it in the past and I repeat it today. But if Sarah were somewhere, now, what would she think of us? What the hell have we become?! What happened is a terrible thing, I know, I say a commonplace. As I think most of you, I was also horrified after the live T...

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. 173 I don’t want to write a polemical post. However, reading about the end of two more young lives among the Italian troops in Afghanistan I have to remind this video: The title is thanks guys (grazie ragazzi). It has a certain effect watching it today, isn’t it? Someone might consider it inappropriate and others could find it right. Yet in Afghanistan, as in Iraq and many other parts of the world blessed by the humanitarian interventions of foreign benefactors, this sometimes happens: people die . Thanks guys, the video above says. It’s fair that also the families who have been robbed of their loved ones know who to thank... The Story: The first gratitude goes to the United States of America , to the Bush administration that started the vital peace invasion and to Obama , democratic to withdraw from Iraq but not enough to leave Afghanistan: thanks guys … The second is obviously for the Italian center-right and center-left politicians, which, no ifs and but...

Stories and News No. 156 Next Sunday in Italy we’ll celebrate our Liberation Day , anniversary of the partisans war’s end. A war requires factions, contenders, at least two. Nevertheless, it would mean that there is someone who fights with himself. Yesterday and today many newspapers told about the decision by Lega Nord mayor of Mogliano Veneto, a town in the province of Treviso, to replace the song Bella ciao with La canzone del Piave , as soundtrack of the local official celebration event. Immediate and opponent replies, especially from the National Association of Partisans of Italy and the Democratic Party, arrived. That’s the umpteenth conflict. Two sides, two songs, two Italys fighting… The Story: Once upon a time there was a country. In the country there were only two people: Homeland and Resistance . Both were born on April 25, 1945. Each of the two would have turned 65 in 2010. The two men, now elderly, were completely different. Probably the only thing they had in common...

Stories and News No. 153 Liberi subito (Immediately Free): this was one of the slogans that have accompanied the movement of protest to the Afghan authorities for the release of the Emergency volunteers, which - I repeat once again - have been for several days unjustly seized by the secret services. The three Italian doctors have been released, officially with no charges against them. They are innocent. Until otherwise proven, even the six Afghan operators arrested are not guilty. According to some newspapers one of them is still a prisoner. For this reason, for me the story is not yet closed, because the presumption of innocence applies to all of us. So, my slogan now is all immediately free … The Story: All immediately free. Because if I believe kidnapping a person infringing his human rights is a crime, my outrage is here whatever their nationality is. I want to free all jailed workers. Because I support Emergency means I support those who work with Emergency, even when the ...

Stories and News No. 149 While three of our fellow citizens are still prisoners of a foreign government, the statements of our - as meaning paid by all of us - Foreign Affairs Minister Franco Frattini remain in chronological order the following: April 11, 2010, after the confession hoax released by the Times : "I pray that is not true, it would be a shame for the Italy. There are facts… very dangerous weapons were found in a hospital by Emergency. We all want to know the truth and we want to know it as soon as possible." Yesterday, about 5 p.m.: "I see rage, grief and sincere astonishment in the three Italians vicissitude. But we have not abandoned them: their presumption of innocence, along with our commitment made by the Afghan authorities to respect their rights, still apply. They are Italian citizens, our compatriots, who chose the medical vocation to serve those who suffer. No difference or distance can divide us by this commitment and this affiliation. We follo...

Stories and News No. 148 Three Italian aid workers of Emergency organization were arrested by Afghan Secret Services. A few hours later, this is the Times headline: Italians 'confess' to murder plot in Afghanistan . The article is undoubtedly superficial and based on not explicitly clarified sources, but at least the British newspaper quotes the ‘confess’. Instead in Italy the news was spread like a true scoop on almost all the newspapers. Not as fast as the denial by the spokesman of the Afghan province where the murder should have be done. That’s typical. It’s a classic, nothing new. The usual farce... The Story: I confess: I am guilty. Because if you are those of the peace mission, it means that I am here to bring war. It’s a matter of simple logic. I'm your enemy and we are at war. I admit it, that’s the difference between you and me. I have to, I can do anything else. I'm the one with his back against the wall, the man who has nothing to lose. And when you ha...