These are images of the same area in southern Libya – as it was in the days when the Roman Empire fought the Carthaginians, and as it is today. Two different and apparently irreconcilable planets. But this is not the case: the Sahel became Sahara (a desert)
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Republican Italy has a sad tradition of army officers with vibrant anti-democratic passions. In December 1970 there was even a coup led by submarine officer Junio Valerio Borghese[1]: hero of World War II[2], one of the founding fathers of MSI – the far-right
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From a distance, there is a risk of misunderstanding: Turkey is making a strong voice, both diplomatically and militarily, like a poker player who constantly picks up without ever stopping. The reality, however, is that Erdoğan is a tired player who has drained his country economically and
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There is something to be excited about when it comes to the Israeli miracle. A miracle born from the horrors of the Holocaust and built as a defensive Blitzkrieg by those Jews no one wanted in Palestine; a flowering miracle thanks to the extraordinary ability to make
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On November 26, 2020, in “il Riformista”, journalist Aldo Torchiaro begins to publish a series of articles documenting how Casaleggio Srl – the company that controls the Five Star Movement – has continuously received large sums along several years from Philip Morris International[1]. Torchiaro also shows that
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Until a few years ago, criminals hid their illegal business and the resulting income in tax havens close to their homes, where clients, lawyers and bankers spoke the same language: Zurich, Amsterdam, Vaduz, Monte Carlo, Luxembourg, Gibraltar, Lugano, Panama[1]. Then the Egmont Group[2] was born, and with
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Aldo Anghessa is dead; the legendary Alpha-Alpha, aka Agent Lotti-Ghetti or Commander Manfredini, to mention just two among thousands of his successful façades. He died alone and lonely as he had always lived even when he was among other people, actor in a spectacular play of which
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For nearly four years, the governments of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have believed they could persuade, if not compel, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to provide diplomatic, economic and military support for the destruction of Qatar. Over the past few weeks
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The world is small and full of things you don’t expect. But they really do happen: when Donald Trump called a G7 meeting in May 2017, he wanted it to be in Sicily. Despite the objections of the Italian police and the embarrassment of the American government,
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This year marks a century since the Vatican bankers, led by the Pacelli family, whose most famous member Eugenio, who worked in Tripoli and Cairo, became Pope Pius XII. They laid the foundation for a common idea between an Egyptian and a Vatican bank and, as significant,
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