Italy

Lavrov did indeed inject some predictable polemics into his answers, which is his style as anyone who follows him knows, but those aren’t legitimate grounds not to publish his interview. Leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera scandalously refused to publish…

Italy has done the unthinkable: turning a naval deployment into an act of political prestidigitation. It sent frigates for the photo op, to display before European public opinion an image of humanitarian commitment, but at the first brush with Israel’s…

All those courageous United Nation delegates triumphantly walking out (gasp!) on a Netanyahu speech on Friday actually had a legal obligation to arrest him and deliver him to the International Criminal Court which has long since issued a warrant for…

Italy experienced one of the most intense protest days in its recent history for Palestine. Tens of thousands of demonstrators—workers, students, dockworkers, families, and social organizations—took to the streets in more than 80 cities, from north to south and coast…

Some thoughts on the occasion of the 2024 Festival of Journalism in Perugia (17-21 April), where Julian Assange’s name is inexplicably absent from the official programs. Translated from the article in the Monthly Report of the Italian daily L’Indipendente, February…

Intervention by Philippe Moal (Observatory of Nonviolence) Good afternoon, everyone, I would like to thank Multimages, the organisers of the Book Festival for Peace and Nonviolence and its participants, as well as the guests with whom I am sharing this…

The Italian parliament has just passed a controversial law to crack down on irregular immigration. Known as the Cutro decree, after the southern Calabria town where more than 90 people died in a shipwreck in February, the legislation severely limits…

The NGO ‘Sos Humanity’ ship Humanity 1 arrived in the port of Catania on Saturday night, with 179 shipwrecked people on board. As provided for in the new decree, a health inspection has been carried out to identify frail women…

The first statistic of the Italian political elections is the record abstention rate: 64% of voters, confirming the distrust of the electorate towards the political system damaged by changes in programmes and alliances, by an incomprehensible electoral system that rewards…

We had the opportunity to interview Eduardo “Mono” Carrasco, a famous Chilean muralist exiled in Italy since the military coup. He still lives in a small village in the province of Alessandria and, although held back by Covid, he is…