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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
Posted in France, Germany, Greece, Italy
Tagged Beppe Grillo, Berlusconi, Bersani, Bossi, Marco Doria, Pizzarotti
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Crooked timber
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. 17 May 2012 We reprint below the substance of an article by commentator Simon Jenkins in … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Tagged Holy Roman Empire, Naopleon, Third Reich
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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
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
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
Posted in China, France, Greece, Italy
Tagged Lucretius, Ovid, Pindar, Tao Te Ching, Tibullus
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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
Posted in Europe, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Tagged austerity, ECB, EU, fiscal compact, Fourth Reich, growth, IMF
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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
European newspapers “collaborate” in the shadow of the EU propaganda machine
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Posted in Economics, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Politics, Spain, UK
Tagged Brussels, collaboration, European Union, propaganda
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Employing arsonists to put out the euro bonfire
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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