Afghanistan – The risk of contagion
The branches of Jihad. The taking of Kabul awakens groups and cells. Alert 007
Like other terrorist groups, Isis-K – which carried out the massacre at Kabul airport – targeted US forces, their allies and civilians. But unlike the others, he openly fought with other Islamic organizations. Isis-K has been the main antagonist of the Taliban and since 2017, according to anti-terrorism experts, it is […]
Lega and Radicals
The anti-stalker champion defends the save-stalker text
The 5th question – Depotenzia the law that introduced the crime, signed in 2009 by Bongiorno. But she promoted the referendum and says: “Guaranteed safeguards”
Between the benches – The distancing
One in ten class is a “chicken coop” classroom. Worse in high school
In a short time, and because it is an easily understandable definition, they have become “chicken coop classes”. We are talking about particularly crowded school classrooms (even beyond the limits established by law), but also about those that in general could perhaps be reduced to guarantee, in normal times, better education and, in times of pandemic, greater safety in […]
The dossier – The former undersecretary
22 days and a “Done”: this is how Durigon is hunted
Twenty-two days. Then, when everyone had left him alone, even his fellow party members, on Thursday evening Claudio Durigon decided to resign as undersecretary for the economy of the Draghi government. The proposal to re-title the Latina park to Arnaldo Mussolini instead of Falcone and Borsellino had by now made him incompatible with his role […]
Quirinal Novel – 3rd episode – Mario Draghi
“Stop a lap”, “no: advance”. The game of the goose between the buildings
Amemoria is the first time that the election of the President of the Republic is entrusted to the will of a single individual. The entire sacral rite for the choice of the tenant of the Colle, the summit of the republican institutions and symbol of national unity, depends on the decision of a single man. Basically Mario Draghi, lay saint of the press and media, […]
The ex first
Renzi, that “whistle career” so beautiful that it is canceled on Wikipedia
But how beautiful and curated is Matteo Renzi’s biography on Wikipedia. “Youngest head of government”, “first mayor to hold that office”, “third non-parliamentary prime minister”, “youngest leader of the G7” until the final “In January 2021, as advocated by Renzi himself, the withdrawal of parliamentary support for the executive […]
From “cazzeggio” to “populism”: new words that tell us
The book – A “living” history of Italy, from politics to social media
End of race – Does not go to Puglia
The empty armchair and another letter: Claudione forfeits
The stage filled with a sort of sofa, under a bell tower; the old people on the benches watching the strangers with the cameras; the gazes of tourists, including foreigners, who have come to admire this delightful cluster of white houses and churches. In the evening of Ceglie Messapica, a town near Brindisi also known for being the birthplace of […]
Palamara challenge
Casu Pd candidate for the Chamber of Primavalle seat
In the end, the real risk is that that seat in the Chamber will end up with Luca Palamara, the former president of the ANM disbarred from the judiciary for the nomination scandal. We are talking about the Rome Primavalle college, left vacant after the appointment of the 5-star Emanuela Del Re as EU special representative for the Sahel. There, just in an attempt to […]
Died in 2018
“Too many doubts, Nicoletta did not kill herself”
Brescia – Complaint from the family: “Holes in the investigation”. Request to archive twice rejected
“Clinical evaluation”
Berlusconi, another stop-and-go style hospitalization. Ruby-ter resumes in Milan on 8 September
He left just before 4pm from sector D of the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, where he had been hospitalized since Thursday evening for a “thorough clinical evaluation”, as his staff defined it, due to a mild heart problem. The checks all went well and in the afternoon Silvio Berlusconi left the hospital. The leader of […]
The white summer is over in Sicily. Green pass for 12 months
Sicily, as announced, exceeds the limits and is the first region to end up in the yellow zone since June. On Monday on the island, where yellow and even orange zones already exist locally, the obligation to wear a mask also outdoors and the rules of the four people at the table, no more than 2,500 in the stadiums and in any case no more […]
The hospital
Olbia, the “gift” from Qatar paid with public money
The costs of the (private) “Mater Olbia” hospital for the next two years will be borne by the Sardinia Region. It is the latest gift that the facility owned by the Qatar Foundation Endowment (i.e. Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani) has received from President Christian Solinas. The cadeau is contained in the budget variation voted by the junta on 11 August, in […]
Priority – Half a million at the Olgiata club in Rome
Suburban funds given to redo the golf course
Lawn mowers, rollers and rakes, everything you need to redo the old golf course. Public money for the private club, a politically somewhat embarrassing pairing, but sure to rely on the poor-rich members of Olgiata, a prestigious club of Roma bene, already forced to open their wallets to repay the holes in the management […]
Central Banks – In Jackson Hole
Hawks don’t fly at the Fed: for now, let’s go ahead with aid
Powell’s long-awaited speech on the edge of equilibrium: the economy is improving, but inflation is under control and then there is the Delta …
The effect in Europe
Help to Lagarde in the clash with the Germans in the ECB
Also Christine Lagarde, absent in Jackson Hole, will have liked the speech with which Jerome Powell promised to keep the monetary policy of the American Fed “accommodating” for a long time and in any case not before the pandemic crisis is really over. In the European Central Bank, in fact, already so devoted by the Statute to monetary orthodoxy, […]
What Football – CR7 returns to Manchester United
Ronaldo leaves like Lukaku and Hakimi: Serie A is increasingly a “B” championship
We are the championship of European champions, and this is an honor. But we are no longer, since yesterday, the championship of Cristiano Ronaldo, on the run from Juventus. And since Romelu Lukaku, from Inter to Chelsea, and Achraf Hakimi, from Inter to Paris Saint-Qatar, had already left us; Gigio Donnarumma, lost to Milan on a free transfer e […]
The war is over? – Afghanistan – The day after the attack
Kabul, US allies leave. “High risk of new suicide bombers”
170 dead and 200 injured by the bomb. Washington: “Now the most dangerous part. The Taliban ask us to stay ”
The dossier – From the Caliphate to the Doha pacts
The Isis-K nebula: 250 attacks on “deadly enemies”
Not all “Islamic students” in tunic, beard and Kalashnikov wanted to sit at the tables in Doha when, in 2020, peace negotiations began in Qatar with the Americans. Those Taliban who considered the members of their movement as traitors ready to make deals “with the American devil” joined the group that gave […]
The power
The Talib Government to Come: Historic Leaders with Rivals
There is sharia law. And there are the less drastic laws of politics and power management: they plan to have allies to gain legitimacy, broaden consensus and secure resources with which to run a country. The priority in these hours remains safety, but the empty coffers are a nightmare for whom […]
The Interview – Patricia Gossman
“ISIS is scarier because the Taliban pretend to be moderates. Lies from the USA “
“The blacklists where terrorists end up are drawn up based on the multiple interests of the states that compile them, which are pragmatic about their advantages. Many countries are more concerned by the Islamic State than by Afghanistan and think that the Taliban could be better ”. Patricia Gossman, director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division, says […]
The interview – Fabrizio Moro
Now I’m broken … “There are no more rules”
“Those who perform live with 3000 assembled fans do not have the sequins to be an artist”
1962–2021
Addio Kampah, a genius of Budda and Hemingway
The artist Flavio Campagna, known as “The pope of Venice”, died yesterday at the age of 59 in the Parma hospital where he was hospitalized due to Covid-19
The Author’s Tale – The Capital lived in August
Tramps, reeds, wine and Manu Chao: this is Rome. And I am the King
Always wandering under the summer heat wave, it is the moment par excellence to be able to look at, meet and cross the world of the marginal, the useless, the remains of humanity on display in the streets in the parks on the sidewalks, which regain a visibility denied during the ‘year. In my eyes I don’t know why only lives seem to arrive on certain summer days […]
What a crash
Yacht, what an obsession! Never say to a rich man: “He’s small”
The Assouline publishing house has published for 820 euros the review, in a limited edition, of the three thousand most luxurious boats in the world from 1850 to today