More than ten years after the bloody end of Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship, Libya continues to be a nation split in two: on the one hand the pro-Western government in Tripoli, led by Fayaz Al-Serraj, and on the other hand the pro-Russian government of General Haftar, which controls
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In the opening scene of the 2005 film ‘Lord of War’, Nicolas Cage, dressed impeccably in a war scene, the ground strewn with thousands of machine-gun shells, explains: ‘There are 550 million firearms in circulation in the world, one for every 12 people. My question is: how
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An American company, DST Digital Sky Technology, born as a rib of NASA, but financially supported by the Russian oil giant Gazprom and directed by two oligarchs (Alisher Usmanov and Yuri Milner), launches micro-satellites into orbit that allow the planet to be monitored inch by inch, and
Read more →German generalist TV has successfully launched some formats that were unknown to me: reality shows about military exercises that praise war (title: we defend Germany); or following the work of traffic police who give fines to motorists; or showing maramalos who cheat tourists; and, last but not
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This is how politics works in European countries. In Turkey, an increasingly incompetent despotic regime, whose economic performance is catastrophic, uses blind violence to stay in power – against internal opponents, against the Kurds, and against anyone who can excite, in the most backward part of the
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There is a large, forgotten island in the Baltic Sea, so large that it has freshwater rivers flowing into a sea, which is unique because of its mixture of salt and freshwater, bordering nine different countries in the Baltic Sea[1] with a total of 90 million people[2]:
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They are mercenaries known for their ferocity and determination. They appear in a conflict, like ghosts, and carry out massacres – only to disappear again. During the invasion of Ukraine, when Putin realised that conscripts were being slaughtered by the Kiev army, he sent them to defend
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At the beginning we wanted to write a report on the climate situation and the dangers faced by the fauna in the coldest (and most important for the Earth’s ecosystem) area of the planet. We wanted to start with a barbaric slaughter of dolphins and try to
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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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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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