Forty-one years have passed since the morning when the body of banker Roberto Calvi was found hanging from the Black Friars bridge in London. It then took decades to prove that it was murder and not suicide. Certainly it is yet another tragic death in a group
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Neo-colonialism is no longer based on the military occupation of developing countries and the slave trade, but the substance has changed little. Fragile democracies, especially in Africa, are victims of coups, inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflicts, corruption, but above all of the interference of foreign capital and the
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Among the many secret stories of united Italy, there is one that never seems to end: that of the Banco Ambrosiano, which was the crossroads of the interests of the Holy See, Freemasonry, the DC, the Mafia and Opus Dei. It never ends, because the Ambrosiano’s money
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His name instils respect and awe in at least five generations of politicians, military personnel and entrepreneurs: Henry Kissinger, advisor to presidents, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1973 (for deciding the end of the Vietnam War that he himself had helped to unleash), will be 100 years
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He is one of the most powerful men on earth. But he does not want to lead a country, and it is ridiculous (as well as untrue) to accuse him of wanting to dominate the world. Peter Thiel believes in the right of each individual to freely
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For over a century and a half, the Mafia organisation terrorised Sicily and, from there, the whole of Italy. It has corrupted dozens of politicians, prelates, bankers, magistrates and humiliated good people who were only trying to work. He brought drugs to an island that, also due
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A lobbyist is one who, for a fee, gets governments to make decisions that, without a powerful incentive, they would never make. This way of influencing politics has always existed, but its transformation into a profession is much more recent. Compared to the rest of the Western
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His whole life is a cemetery. Of people killed or had killed, of orchestrated revolutions, of ferocious repressions, of intrigues in which he played different parts at the same time. He is one of the most powerful men in the Arab world, and also one of the
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A handsome young man walking behind Carla Bruni. He accompanies her and Nicolas Sarkozy to important appointments. He discusses money, careers and billionaire contracts. The press discovers him and puts him on the grill until the whole Sarkozy galleon is sunk. But not him. Grégoire Verdeaux is
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In life, once you have achieved wealth, you have several choices available to you, of which the generally preferred one is to enjoy the money while the money works for its master. Apparently, one of the Russian oligarchs, Ališer Usmanov, made the same choice. Until you start
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