Cristiano Ronaldo goes to play in the desert, in a league that, as a whole, is not worth the sum of AC Milan and Inter Milan, with a number of spectators comparable to the Hungarian league, with the only international outlet of playing a continental cup against
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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 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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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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After centuries of anti-Semitism, the horror provoked by the Holocaust made possible the birth of the State of Israel – a miracle that the Jewish people were forced to defend with arms for many years. Now that era is over, and the Arab countries, Egypt in the
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Increasingly, as the process of globalisation transforms and permeates the life of the entire world, characters almost unknown to the public emerge who, because they occupy key positions in a given political, diplomatic, financial, military and industrial mechanism, become a sort of lever with which wars, alliances
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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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Our planet has fewer and fewer surprises in store, and with globalisation, the extermination of many animal and plant races, the different climatic zones tend to resemble each other more and more. There remain a few paradise islands, not yet destroyed by mining or mass tourism, where
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