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Education in Italy (part two): the foul play of Berlusconi’s and Renzi’s reforms
In Education in Italy part one I describe the decline of the Italian Education system since the beginning of the new century and the birth of the scuola/azienda, of the student/customer and of the consumers’ school, with its parallel dow... -
Education in Italy (part one): Nothing worth Teaching can be Taught?
Education in Italy: Nothing worth Teaching can be Taught? In Education in Italy part one I’ll describe the decline of the Italian Education system since the beginning of the new century and the birth of the scuola/azienda, of the student... -
Well-fed young television-watchers or freedom fighters? Of juvenile rebelliousness and social commitment
Since my book on Italian society in the last ventennio is also a warning against the contemporary erosion of democracy in the Western World - as I have said time and again, the Italy of the so-called Berlusconi Age is a privileged observ... -
Mafia Capitale: dirty hands over the Eternal City
Mafia Capitale: a shocking Christmas gift to Italian people As I write in the introduction of my book on Berlusconi's Italy, later that year [2014], we discovered that also Rome was not willing to stay behind [Milan and Venice, in w... -
Migrants’ Holocaust, the modern Middle Passage: do we really care ?
Migrants’ Holocaust: the second anniversary of the greatest migrants’ tragedy of the XXI century On October 3, 2015 the tiny island of Lampedusa, South of Sicily, celebrated the second anniversary of the greatest migrants’... -
Genoa G8 summit in 2001: the days Berlusconi’s Italy went back to fascism
The police street violence at the Genoa G8 summit against the peaceful protesters and the raid at their headquarters - the Diaz school - in July 2001 is one of those episodes a country must be deeply ashame... -
Berlusconi’s legal problems: the ‘fake’ sentence in the corruption of senator De Gregorio’s trial
Berlusconi Convention Italiani nel Mondo Sergio De Gregorio Another leg of the Berlusconi's legal problems saga: sentenced to pro forma three years in jail for corrupting opposition senator in the first trial. Why is il Ca... -
Edward Snowden, Roberto Saviano and George Orwell: dangerous truths
The documentary film Citizenfour on whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations on the NSA surveillance programme was screened at the Biografestival in Bologna.In 2013 Edward Snowden’s Datagate revealed the greatest American plot to depri... -
Democracy’s future: painless concentration camp for societies?
Erosion of democracy in contemporary society CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO ENLARGE AND READ TEXT "The final revolution: a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies": fact or fiction? Writing about Berlusconi’s Italy also m... -
Elezioni 2018: le foche ammaestrate e il cavaliere oscuro
The tame seals and the dark (ex) knight (article in Italian). Passando occasionalmente davanti ad un televisore acceso ieri sera, ultimo giorno di campagna elettorale, ho avuto una visione surreale: l’ex Cavaliere, in uno avanzato stato ...
