Category Archives: Italy

First Stalingrad, then Berlin

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   Rome, 22 May 2012 Having just rocked up here amid the grey rains of a late … Continue reading

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Crooked timber

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Urbi et Orbi

8 April 2012 Easter Sunday URBI ET ORBI In terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis Romae. In sua oratione pascuali hodie pro multitudine centum milium fidelium, in foro Vaticano, Papa Benedictus XVI incitavit pacem in terra atque finem caedis, praecipue in … Continue reading

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Qualunquismo

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.    3 March 2012 SO WHAT? “The times are out of joint, but we were not … Continue reading

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Ἂριστον μὲν ὕδωρ³

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.    22 February 2012 WATER IS BEST Quid lapide durius, quid aqua mollius? Verumtamen gutta cavat … Continue reading

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DAS VIERTE REICH / THE FOURTH REICH

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   VON JETZT AN EUROPA SPRICHT DEUTSCH 6 February 2012 What Bismarck and Hitler failed to … Continue reading

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Megabucks back in fashion

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.    Paris, 3 February 2012   RICH BETTER THAN POOR AT WEATHERING RECESSION   In a … Continue reading

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European newspapers “collaborate” in the shadow of the EU propaganda machine

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  26 January 2012 The following is a letter which was received today by the UK’s Guardian … Continue reading

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Employing arsonists to put out the euro bonfire

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  2 January 2012 Do arsonists make good firefighters? Maybe, but I can’t see many fire brigades … Continue reading

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Friendly fire: nuclear allies at loggerheads

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.    “Nato refuses to rule out crossing into Pakistan as it targets insurgent groups”. This was … Continue reading

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