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The Stories: "Mr. President, Distinguished delegates: Of all the burning problems to be dealt with by this Assembly, one of special significance for us, and one whose solution we feel must be found first — so as to leave no doubt in the minds of anyone — is that of peaceful coexistence among states with different economic and social systems. Much progress has been made in the world in this field. But imperialism, particularly U.S. imperialism, has attempted to make the world believe that peaceful coexistence is the exclusive right of the earth's great powers. That peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace. Peaceful coexistence must be exercised among all states, regardless of size, regardless of the previous historical relations that linked them, and regardless of the problems that may arise among some of them at a given moment. At present, the type of peaceful coexistence to which we aspire is often violated. We must als...

The Story : "Silence, please…" the Reverend Glynn Wolfe said, standing in front of everyone. "But Wolfy ..." Tom Stutzman reacted, looking him with his single eye. Stutzman and George Scott, seven years with Linda, were sitting in the first line. "Hey! Don’t you remember I told you that you should not call me like that in public?" "Yeah, but when we’re alone you like it, don’t you?" "I do not know what you're talking about!" Wolfe shouted. "Take a look to the Reverend..." Jo, one of the barmen sitting in the first row too, said to his buddies. "Stop now!" Glynn cried out. "We’re not here to talk about me! I told you that the situation is serious, very serious. Did you not read the newspapers?" "Eminence," Arthur answered, speaking also on behalf of the other plumbers seated in second row, "you tell us to hide and isolate ourselves from the world..." "Eminence?! What Eminence?! H...

The Story : Italy, everywhere, from north to south, Spring 2013. It’s morning. Yesterday night I read the elections results... We did it! We all did, everyone did, those who haven’t understood too. After all, even in the past they hadn’t seen what they did, when they put a cross on that name on the ballot paper... It’s the end! Stop with the shame of seeing the most powerful man in my country saying bullshits around the world. Stop with watching always the same name at the head of what matters in Italy. Stop with the worst Italian myth during the last two decades: the important thing is to get on top; it doesn’t matter how... And if all this were not enough, stop with his incredibly idiot jokes! This morning, like Kevin Spacey four years ago, I can say out loud: “ I am proud to call him my president! ” Oh yes, because all those who voted him may say everything, except that they were proud. In any case, in my life I have never known anyone saying looking straight in my eye with a minim...

The Story : Pavia, Italy, 18 February 2039 Dear Dad, I just want to say thank you... I know that you were not there in my first birthday. I know that you have not heard the first time I said a comprehensible word. I also know that you were not with me the day I saw the sea and my eyes have been enlarged as facing a miracle. You could not; it was not your blame. Your absence has never been a question of love. Every moment of my life, my presence in mom’s and my friends’ life are. Thanks to your love I am here now, writing you. Thanks to your love I can now watch my son, your wonderful nephew. Thanks to your love, today I am proud to explain him that his father is your gift to his grandmother. Yes, my mother, your wife, who found the greatest power to stop the victory of death on our happiness. I am talking about the power of life. My life… Your son The News : La Repubblica Magazine, 18 February 2009: PAVIA, Italy - The first step was made: “Now we go forward. I want to see how they can...

The Stories : The 16th of February 2009 was a day of ordinary revenge, in Italy. In Rome, a sticks armed and covered faces group of people came into a kebab shop, injuring four foreigners to avenge a rape committed in the area by some Romanians.* In Catania, Sicily, in response to the abuse of two young girls, a crowd of women went on the streets hunting for all males above 40 to emasculate them on the public square. In Molfetta, near Bari, the city ladies heard the 34 years old rapist’s comment after his arrest and took a man, skinning him alive, crying: "We do it, ‘cause nobody will do!" In Afragola, Naples, responding to the abuse of some children, the men mad justice on their own: a mob kidnapped five mothers and forced them to be a whore for a whole night. In Messina, Sicily, paedophile violence provoked the revolt of hundred mothers who catch the first lecherous old man in the park to burn him alive. In Palermo, Sicily, again for revenge, as scapegoats for the violence ...

The Story : Once upon a time there was a continent called Africa, which, until the first half of the nineteenth century was an unknown and mysterious land. The colonization of the continent was limited to coastal areas and deltas of large rivers. Starting from these areas, the colonialist nations had established a dense network of commercial settlements, in competition with each other for the exploitation of raw materials and the slave trade. The African land began to change thanks to the explorers that through geographical societies sent information concerning the inexhaustible resources contained in these virgin territories. In that time the colonization of the great African continent began. A unique opportunity for many countries but is not been and never will be for African people... The News : (Ansa.it) - ROME, FEB 12 – “Italy made a lot of job in Africa, a continent that is an opportunity and not a problem”, Italian Foreign Minister Frattini said. The head of the Ministry point...

The Story : Once upon a time there were two powerful men. One elected by people who voted for him and the other thanks to those who did not go to vote. One became president thanks to Internet too. The other will be defeated thanks to the Web. One was the first African American to become U.S. president. The other, when he read the news, called him “suntanned”... One day they had a phone call: "Hello, Obama? It’s me, Berlusconi... " "Ah ... you ..." "Well... Sorry for my words... I often open mouth and say bullshits..." "Okay, excuses are accepted." "I just wanted to be humorous..." "I understand, but if after your election, someone had commented saying that you're a cap, with a ridicule wig and that you have a tense like a drum skin, what would you said?" The News : ROME (Reuters) - The U.S. President, Obama and the Italian president Silvio Berlusconi will speak today on a phone call about the next G8, G20 and the economic ...