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Stories and News No. 437 Interview to Hezbollah leader Sayyid Nasrallah: Share the post:

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Stories and News No. 335 Generalizing the motto on the website of the network created to support soldier Bradley Manning (Exposing war crimes is not a crime!) I am here to say that exposing crimes is not a crime . More than ever, when we see the great rising importance of the net in the world, this principle must be defended. That is a fundamental and determining principle everywhere, as in the fascinating revolution that is occurring in real time in North Africa. In my Italy it is daily attacked too. It will be never needless to say: publishing rumors is gossip but making known to the people the crimes of those who govern is Journalism . Journalism with a capital J .  Every referring to the Berlusconi 'Bunga Bunga' and Ruby case is wanted. Bradley Manning is a US young soldier and information theory expert imprisoned since 282 days in solitary confinement at a military prison in Quantico, Virginia. He is accused of downloading thousands secret files, sending them to Wikilea...

Stories and News No. 286 In my humble opinion, the highest powers are once again demonstrating that they have not yet fully understand what the Internet is. We are the Net. Every split second that we are there, connected, willy-nilly, we are the Web. That's why when on the internet someone’s rights are violated, the same happens to the rights of all. The fact is that this is true for another network, without which Google, Facebook, Youtube and even Wikileaks would have not sense. That network is obviously the human society. The paradox is that the above powers have perfectly learned how to dominate and control the traditional community. However, there is no manual that explains how to export such hegemony over the web. It does not exist because, fortunately, it is not exportable in any way. I do not know whether or not Julian Assange is innocent of the accusations that the Swedish Prosecutor addressed him. But, I repeat once again, I know that many important documents were publish...

Stories and News No. 285 On the home page of all media in the world there is only one article: Julian Assange was arrested . If the English judges will be in favor of extradition, Assange will have to answer a charge of rape in Sweden. Whatever you think about him, in relation to the really serious content broadcasted by Wikileaks - confused by some smoke as Gaddafi is redone, I invite you to very carefully watch who will rejoice with greater vehemence. " It’s about time ," Italy Foreign Minister Franco Frattini excitedly exclaimed . " The international encirclement fortunately was successful. Assange hurt the international diplomatic relations and I hope will be interrogated and tried as established by law . " I agree with Frattini on one point: if someone hurts and is suspected of a crime has to be questioned and prosecuted according to law. Well, I know a friend of Frattini … The Story: Once upon a time there were Julian Assange and a friend of Frattini . The...

Stories and News No. 281 Let's start with a resounding clarification. A huge number of newspapers, TV news and websites say that Interpol had issued a warrant of arrest or capture for sex crimes against Julian Assange , spokesman and editor of Wikileaks. That is false. If the authoritative media, unlike the braggart Wikileaks, had bothered to visit Interpol website would have read on the top of the Wanted page that the Red Notice on Assange is not an international arrest warrant and the person should be considered innocent until proven guilty . The arrest warrant came from the Office of the Prosecutor of Gothenburg , Sweden . Interpol merely reports such request to all its offices worldwide. In other words, that is a service of spreading the warrant from Sweden, following the individual rules for extradition of the various countries. But let's move on. While the pseudo revelations about the botulino of Gaddafi and Berlusconi parties have filled the front pages of interna...

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...