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Pentagon confirms Italy has nuclear weapons

10 April 2010

From a report by U.S. environmental association Natural Resources Defense Council [1], we had already learned that the United States store 90 nuclear bombs on two Italian bases: 50 in Aviano (Pordenone) and 40 in Ghedi Torre (Brescia). Approximately 400 more bombs are deployed in Germany, (...)

Berlusconi wants to bring Israel into the EU and condones war against Gaza

4 February 2010

At the start of his three day-visit to Israel early this week, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu that "my greatest dream, as long as I am a mover and shaker in politics, is to bring Israel into membership of the European Union." (...)

Prison sought for 26 Americans in CIA case

1 October 2009

"Justice for Abu Omar"
Public prosecutors in Italy have urged a court in Milan to jail 26 Americans for the kidnapping of a terrorism suspect in a 2003 CIA operation.
The Italian lawyers are seeking sentences of between 10 and 13 years for the US agents. They also want 13 years for the (...)

Italy cracks down on illegal immigration (video)

7 July 2009

Amid shouts of "victory" and straight-armed salutes, the Movimento Sociale Italiano party (MSI), which believes Italy would be a better country if it stopped immigration and cracked down on those who sneak in illegally, is celebrating the fact that new legislation passed by the Italian senate (...)

An Interview with Aharon Shabtaï

Israel, “guest of honour” in Paris and Turin, does not deserve to be invited

by Silvia Cattori

Jaffa/Tel Aviv (Palestine/Israel) | 27 February 2008

When the announcement that Israel would attend the "Fiera del libro" of Turin, (*) came out, an immediate wave of protest arose in Italy; and many personalities supported the boycott call, made by the Palestinian, Jordanian and Egyptian Writers’ Associations.
In France, strangely enough, the (...)

Kofi Annan’s video message to the annual conference of the United Nations Field Staff Union in Brindisi, Italy

New York (USA) | 12 October 2005

Every one of you makes a vital contribution to our global mission of peace. All of us here at Headquarters owe you a debt of gratitude.
Even greater is our debt to those who are no longer with us -– those who gave their lives serving the United Nations. That debt can never be repaid. (...)

State Terrorism

1980: Massacre in Bologna, 85 dead

6 July 2005

The emotions that cruel terrorist attacks can generate are not good advice for a moment of reflection. In the past, this kind of attacks plunged Europe into mourning. It happened in Bologna (Italy) in 1980 and in Moscow in 1999. In both cases, the claiming of responsibility for the attacks was (...)

“Quo vadis Europe?”

by Gianfranco Fini

13 June 2005

Certainly, the French vote on May 29 represents a serious obstacle for the process of European integration. Its repercussion should not be minimized but it is not convenient either to exaggerate it. Instead, it is essential that we understand the reasons for that vote. National factors had an (...)

Operation Gladio in Italy

Memorandum, National Security Council to Harry S. Truman, April 21, 1950.

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 21 April 1950

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