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For Berlusconi, the Tipping Point?

(30 05 2011) Judith Harris

Mid-term elections: big changes for the major Italian cities. Milan turned left after 18 years with Giuliano Pisapia, Naples chooses former magistrate Luigi de Magistris

When Elections for Mayor Become a National Bellwether

(13 05 2011) Judith Harris

Of the 1,344 cities and towns which are to elect new mayors and city councils, pundits are watching the most crucial: Milan and Turin in the North, both cities grappling with...

Blasting Off the Nuclear Referendum (and Others)

(25 04 2011) Judith Harris

What the moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants really stands for

Free Speech in Italy: Enrico Mentana Speaks Freely

(23 03 2011) Judith Harris

“We decided to have only serious news, without the slush of infotainment" says Enrico Mentana the chief anchorman of La Sette, the lone alternative to the Berlusconi TV chain...

Gaddafi, the once and future friend

(16 03 2011) Judith Harris

ROME – Consider the Italian position on Libya, whose leader Muammar Gaddafi said March 15 that he is “really shocked by the behavior of my European friends, first of all...

Italian Church in a Political Quandary

(01 03 2011) Judith Harris

Italian bishops may not necessarily read every detail of the bungabunga phone taps filling the newspapers, but they know full well that Premier Berlusconi faces a judiciary trial...

Anti-defamation, a Punch Line

(30 01 2011) Joseph Sciorra

Something Funny about Somewhere.

The Flames of Protest Envelop Rome

(15 12 2010) Judith Harris

Largo Argentina, Rome, Dec.14, 12:45 pm - Via del Corso was entirely sealed off by police vans, and so a sea of demonstrators took a right angle to surge toward this square, whose...

WikiLeaks Revelation: the More Italy Changes... You Can Guess the Rest

(06 12 2010) Jerry Krase

I am beginning to get tired of hearing about the incompetence of the American Diplomatic Corps and US Intelligence Agencies as it seems to me that I have already heard (and...

The Poetry of Politics

(18 11 2010) George De Stefano

Puglia’s president and Italian leftist leader Nichi Vendola envisions “a better Italy”

So Who Has The Last Laugh?

(05 11 2010) Judith Harris

Some are saying that the Italian political situation is so surreal that it defeats any attempt at humor. They should think again. The comics are having a field day, and maybe a...

Will Bunga Bunga Finally Make Berlusconi's Personal Political?

(03 11 2010) Judith Harris

Wanna dodge prison in Italy? Just be a young hot belly-dancer with disputable ethics, become friends with the Premier (a fairly straightforward consequence to the previous...

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