The International Court of Justice was founded in 1945 in The Hague (Den Haag), Holland, with the dream of being able to unite the entire planet behind a shared set of rules, to give citizens a way out to defend their interests in countries oppressed by dictatorship,
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Perhaps we have been too pessimistic. Perhaps, in the ocean of information that drowns the net, in addition to deliberately false information there are truths that, with difficulty, come to light and then finally assert themselves – like the one that, over the past three years, has
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A few days ago, an investigation by several international newspapers identified another person who is conducting international journalistic campaigns against payment in order to discredit a single person. A person unknown to most, who is used as a symbol for a hate campaign. In this case, it
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‘My grandfather rode a camel, my father also rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will ride a camel’: the Sheikh of Dubai, Rāshid bin Saʿīd Āl Maktūm, said this at the time[1]. The sentence explains very well the
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The fact that modern lobbyists can act anywhere undisturbed, they have become, in this century, fearsome competitors for the ‘old’ smugglers and arms dealers, who were forced into risky and secret negotiations, reckless banking operations that often ended in colossal scams, to put their own safety at
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The investigations into the Qatargate scandal never cease to provide surprises. This time, shaking the chambers of the European Parliament, is a new strand of investigation that reveals the involvement of the United Arab Emirates in the Panzeri case[1], a former Italian MEP arrested in December last
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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have
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Christian Koch and Richard Burchill. I am sure, you have never heard of them. Yet they are people in key positions, who have been able to influence the decisions of European governments on some fundamental issues: the sale of arms to the Emirates and the acceptance that
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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers – and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU’s stance on many
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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world – with iron and fire. According to
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