Remembering Carlo Giuliani in Berlin (video)
By : Berlin - Wednesday July 20, 2011 Ten years ago Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by police at the G8 protests in Genoa, Italy. His death marked the escalation of a transnational struggle against capitalist globalization. Yesterday, anti-capitalists in Berlin remembered the tragic loss of the young militants life and vented their anger against a murderous system. In the last weeks numerous stencils and posters announced a demonstration in remembrance of Carlo Giuliani. The posters stated explicitly that the demonstration would (...)
read more, comments... Silvio Berlusconi: girls and marijuana on his private jet
By : Nick Squires - Friday November 5, 2010 Most Italians thought Silvio Berlusconi could not drag their country’s reputation any lower. But on Wednesday the sleaze allegations against the Italian prime minister plumbed new depths when a call girl claimed that his private jet was used to supply marijuana to sex parties at his villa in Sardinia. Nadia Macri’, 28, has told investigators the billionaire premier paid her €10,000 (£8,738) for intercourse when she visited him at Villa Certosa in Sardinia last year and at (...)
read more, comments... TV news reader quits in protest at Berlusconi
By : Michael Day - Thursday June 3, 2010 One of Italy’s top news readers has dramatically quit her job on state-funded television after claiming its coverage was biased in favour of the media mogul and premier, Silvio Berlusconi. Maria Luisa Busi, who presented the flagship evening TG1 news show on the Rai 1 channel, reportedly told bosses what she thought of the programme’s editorial line in a frank letter pinned to a notice board. Her abrupt departure at the weekend follows a series of clashes with TG1 editor (...)
read more, comments... Immigrants Rally for a Nationwide Strike in Italy
By : ELISABETTA POVOLEDO - Wednesday March 3, 2010 By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO MILAN — In an effort to heighten awareness about the contributions made by foreign workers to the Italian economy, the promoters of the first strike by immigrants in the country invited workers to stay home and to boycott shopping for one day. Similar protests took place in other European countries on Monday (the initiative started in France and found supporters in Spain and Greece, as well). A comparable boycott, “A Day Without Immigrants,” (...)
read more, comments... GLADIO: THE SECRET U.S. WAR TO SUBVERT ITALIAN DEMOCRACY
By : Arthur E. Rowse - Wednesday January 6, 2010 by Arthur E. Rowse The program in Italy was aimed at the threat that communists might mount an insurrection or gain a share of political power through the ballot box. An insurrection was unlikely, however, since nearly all posts in the bureaucracy were filled after the war by solidly anticommunist veterans of Mussolini’s forces, with Allied approval. During the war, most Americans considered themselves heroes who freed Western Europe from its brutal Nazi and fascist rulers. It (...)
read more, comments... YouTube video claiming attack on Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi was staged is hit on Internet (video)
By : Ethan Sacks - Tuesday December 22, 2009 By Ethan Sacks A video suggesting that the attack on Silvio Berlusconi was staged has hit the Internet with enough force to be an embarrassing blow to the wounded Italian premier. An eight-minute YouTube video in Italian — "Was the attack on Berlusconi a montage?" and consisting of stills and video clips from the Milan incident — notched 500,000 hits in the first few hours after it was posted, London’s Daily Mail reported. Berlusconi was hospitalized with a broken (...)
read more, comments... Against the Reintroduction of Race Laws in Europe
By : incidenze - Monday July 6, 2009 To European democratic public opinion and the press that keeps it informed Events in Italy have always – for better or worse – had an extraordinary influence on the whole of European society, from the Italian Renaissance to Fascism. But, all too often, Europe has not become aware of these events in time. There is currently a great deal of attention in major European newspapers on some aspects of the crisis that has engulfed our country. But we believe that it is our duty (...)
read more, comments... Tell ilgiornal Frankenstein in Afghanistan
By : Michael Callis - Wednesday July 1, 2009 Tell IlGiornal Frankenstein in Afghanistan It is hoped a Bellaciao reader, will translate this for Bellaciao, Italy. An interview by journalist Stefano Lorenzeto appeared in Italy’s Ilgiornale. My name appears in a paragraph with Bin Laden and Zawahiri. Also 9-11 numerology, ESP and UFO’s appear part of the narrative by Professor Paone who was interviewed. The subject of the interview was his book on Al Qaida and 9/11, US twin towers attack. In a summary of the article (...)
read more, comments... Mystery surrounding 134.5 “fake” billion US dollars seized in Ponte Chiasso remains
By : Asia News - Friday June 19, 2009 After two weeks a US Treasury official says securities were fakes. Italy’s financial police is silent. The case is still baffling and full of discrepancies. 06/18/2009 18:07 ASIA – ITALY Milan (AsiaNews) – US government bonds seized by Italy’s financial police (Guardia di Finanza) at Ponte Chiasso, an the Italian town on the border with Switzerland, are “clearly fakes,” Stephen Meyerhardt, spokesman for the US Bureau of the Public Debt, is quoted as (...)
read more, comments... Why Stock Markets are Collapsing
By : chycho - Wednesday March 11, 2009 The stock market began as a means for companies to raise money and for “shareholders to invest in business ventures and get a share of profits.” At some point, it turned into a casino resembling a Ponzi scheme, which held true until 2008 when the Ponzi scheme collapsed. The causes for this collapse are diverse. Some of its aspects and repercussions have already been discussed here, and will be discussed further in the future. If you would like to know how far the markets have (...)
read more, comments... Stop elite research now!
By : COBAS UK - Saturday October 11, 2008 Research in universities across the globe is becoming more and more privatised. This must be stopped because it will centre power in the hands of a few who will inevitably ask for the payment of very high university fees and will not give access to research which does not support their speculative interests. Berlusconi in Italy is trying to privatise most of the public university research. This should be stopped! Italian students and universtity professors are united in a "line of fight" (...)
read more, comments... The picture that shames Italy (video)
By : Peter Popham - Thursday July 24, 2008 By Peter Popham in Rome It’s another balmy weekend on the beach in Naples. By the rocks, a couple soak up the southern Italian sun. A few metres away, their feet poking from under beach towels that cover their faces and bodies, lie two drowned Roma children. The girls, Cristina, aged 16, and Violetta, 14, were buried last night as the fallout from the circumstances of their death reverberated throughout Italy. It is an image that has crystallised the mounting disquiet in the (...)
read more, comments... Topless model turned Italian cabinet minister sues comedian over ’lewd act involving Berlusconi’ jibe (video)
By : Nick Pisa - Friday July 11, 2008 By Nick Pisa It involves a former topless model and the Italian prime minister, and has all the makings of a risque joke. But the story about Silvio Berlusconi and a glamorous female cabinet minister hasn’t left many people laughing. In fact, model-turned-politician Mara Carfagna is now threatening to sue an Italian comedian who claimed she had performed a lewd act with the 71-year-old PM. For a fortnight, the country’s newspapers had been buzzing with wild rumours that Mr (...)
read more, comments... Friends and favours: Berlusconi & his ’butterflies’ (video)
By : Leonard Doyle - Friday July 11, 2008 The Italian premier’s penchant for a pretty face usually arouses nothing more than a snigger. But now it could land him in court. By Peter Popham in Rome and Claire Soares by Leonard Doyle For years, Italy’s perma-tanned 71-year-old prime minister has got away with acting like a sultan in his harem, and the Italian media, forgiving to a fault of private peccadilloes, has left him to it. He has laid siege to television eye candy, appointed some of the prettiest and least (...)
read more, comments... SILVIO MON AMOUR (Vaff....!) Video
By : Bellaciao Paris - Monday March 31, 2008 by Bellaciao Paris Worldwide news & intergalactical scoop, especially for you, on Bellaciao: let The Team introduce you to the first video ever realized from A to Z (nigggthhhts of hard work :)) by Biche, Sirieix, Thom, Dr Furioso, La Louve, Bellaciao Collectif, 3x0, Le Scarabée, recorded, engineered and mixed Farra Vox studios : Our italian friends, comrades and compatriots are about to chose new parliamentarian, new government on the 13d and 14th of april...what a harsh choice - (...)
read more, comments... "la sapienza" rome, pope free area
By : Salvatore Fiore - Wednesday January 16, 2008 Although nearly no space has been given to the following news I report it for you benefit: "The POPE has been heavily contested with an occupation of the University Senate rooms by autonomous students at "La Sapienza" university in Rome. He will not go and give a speech at the university for the inaugural celebration of the Academic Year". This of course is a great victory for academic freedom in Italy. The right of reply has been given to the students and they took it and they made good (...)
read more, comments... Open letter to Fabio Mussi on the paradox of his university reforms
By : Salvatore Fiore - Tuesday January 8, 2008 On the 30 December the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica" cited that the Decreto Milleproroghe reform proposed by Fabio Mussi, Minister of University and Research and leader of the Sinistra Democratica party in Italy is a sort of Copernican revolution. But what Copernican revolution? This is a carbon copy of what researchers and academics in Britain are trying to get rid of! The following is an open letter to Fabio Mussi 30 December 2007 Egr. Ministro Mussi, I have today read on (...)
read more, comments... Aviano, Ghedi mayors sign petition to ban possession of nuclear weapons
By : Italy - Tuesday December 18, 2007 Aviano, Ghedi mayors sign petition to ban possession of nuclear weapons By Kent Harris, Stars and Stripes Tuesday, December 18, 2007 AVIANO, Italy — The mayors of two towns in Italy with U.S. bases thought to house nuclear missiles have signed onto a petition calling for a global end to such weapons by 2020. Stefano Del Cont, mayor of Aviano since June, said he and Anna Giulia Guarneri, the mayor of Ghedi, joined hundreds of other city leaders around the globe in seeking the (...)
read more, comments... Depleted uranium, depleted health concerns
By : ISN Security Watch - Thursday November 1, 2007 As a growing number of Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans meet their death due to serious illness, the specter of ’Balkan Syndrome’ and the effects of depleted uranium are again in the spotlight. By Anes Alic in Sarajevo for ISN Security Watch (29/10/07) An increase of the number of Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans during the 1990s who are falling seriously ill due to depleted uranium exposure is causing a public outrage in Italy, as the government downplays (...)
read more, comments... Scientists a step nearer to creating artificial life
By : Joëlle - Monday September 10, 2007 Scientists a step nearer to creating artificial life New progress towards synthetic organism Hope of fuels, drugs and ways to fight pollution James Randerson, science correspondent The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2... Thursday September 6 2007 To the untrained eye, the tiny, misshapen, fatty blobs on Giovanni Murtas’s microscope slide would not look very impressive. But when the Italian scientist saw their telltale green fluorescent glint he knew he had achieved (...)
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