Tag Archive for 'democracy'
Kasyanov: how Europe financed Yeltsin's re-election
"We're in an emergency, I need money: If you do not pay pensions and salaries to soldiers before May Day, as I promised, here anything can happen." Word of Boris Yeltsin. In 1996, Russian President addressed this urgent request for help to President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The book reveals that is about to publish Mikhail Kasyanov, prime minister in Moscow from 2000 to 2004 and nicknamed "Mr. 2%", note Giulietto Church, "in memory of that percentage, as prime minister of Russia seems to perceive at every deal State.
Finiguerra: I almost sign up for the Pd (Susa Valley)
Thus, the mayors Valsusino of the Democratic Party for the election of the new mountain community, refused to enter into an agreement with the mayors of the People of Liberty, as requested and encouraged at Piedmont and not just the Democratic Party . Instead they sought and found an understanding with the Mayors No-Tav. An agreement that may be able to blow up the TAV project for years challenged the whole Val di Susa. Chiamparino, leader of maximo Piedmont Pd , and Mercedes Bresso, governor of the Savoy region, are furious. Issued vitriolic statements against dissidents. Even come to rely on government intervention. To Order!
Rai Gags culture? Error: PDL imitates the left
Cut, obscure, censor? Error: Rai takes on ideas, not a gag. The call comes on the eve of the October 3 for press freedom after half a million signatures gathered by the "Republic", with 10 Nobel laureates among its signatories. The columns of "Time", near the center-right newspaper, Angelo Mellone warns: "With all the noise these days one thing is certain: Michele Santoro has enjoyed free rent at the RAI, a formidable advertising hype." Partisan? Meanwhile, "will give him the wrath of a boom plays, allowing an extraordinary act of self-marketing martirizzante.
Gorbachev wanted us to invade Europe Germany
French President Francois Mitterrand and British Prime Minister Margaret Thathcer asked Mikhail Gorbachev to prevent by force the reunification of Germany, troops occupied Berlin and deploying the armored divisions of the Red Army in the then German Democratic Republic, led by Erich Honecker. Reveals the same Gorbachev, last president of the USSR and Nobel Peace Prize, the journalist Fiammetta Cucurnia "Republic" 30 September 2009, twenty years after the fall of the Wall: "You could get to the Third War World " If Moscow had given in to pressure from London and Paris.
Gags Internet under attack freedom of the Net
Gags Internet, red alert. According to parliamentary PDL Gaetano Pecorella and Enrico Costa, all websites will be subject to editorial restrictions in the press law, which dates back to 1948. Any blog if the proposal now being considered by the Justice Committee of the House was converted into law, would comply with the provisions prescribed for newspapers: with its registration in court and the presence of a journalist as managing director. Which would mean the immediate disappearance of thousands of blogs, now frequented daily by millions of Italians.
Labor-boom in newspapers, on Done in the name of Biagi
"The Dirty Dozen," to use a (degrees) high definition of the friend Carlo Freccero, did boom: the number of onset of "the daily", the new newspaper Marco Travaglio, September 23 burned the whole circulation, one hundred thousand copies in all newsagents. "We expect it, there assemble head but in the meantime we have doubled the distribution: two hundred thousand, plus the thirty thousand subscribers, supporters," which is our total gratitude for an act of trust early in the dark "for a new head which the journalists themselves are the publishers, under the banner of more complete independence and without the help of government grants.
Purposes: serving finance ethics, democratic capitalism
Ethical finance, economy, social market economy. It 's the recipe of the President of the Chamber, Gianfranco Fini, issued by the foundation webmagazine "Farefuturo. A long discussion in which the founder of Alliance focuses on the relationship between capitalism and society in light of the crisis globally. The missing link? Ethics. Be restored at any cost, building on the extensive experience of the European welfare state, a model of mediation between profit and social guarantees. For Fini, is to use the crisis to rewrite the rules, idologic abandon the unlimited growth of capitalism and build a more fair and democratic.
Mini: our troops without strategy since 2002
The attack in Kabul, "adds another role mist Italian." General Fabio Mini, said in an interview with Alfonso Desire for "Limes". "In the crudest terms - adds Mini - the first question arises: what are we doing? Or, as someone already asked, how many deaths is Afghanistan? ". It 'hard to the court of general, former commander of NATO forces in Kosovo, that since 2002 no longer clear the function of the Italian presence in Kabul, after NATO took over leadership of the mission. Proved disastrous (and bloody) the Bush strategy, now expects the only possible solution: to be indicated by Barack Obama.
Italians, why stay longer in Afghanistan?
Bossi and Ferrero are not only to demand the withdrawal of Italian troops from Kabul. If the Northern League leader calls for a quick way out and the secretary of the Communist Refoundation emphasizes the need to leave Afghanistan because the invasion was the daughter of Bush policy and has not even been able to guarantee elections free of fraud, are the Italians - the second polls - to demand that the soldiers come home. Before the latest massacre of Kabul, September 17, claimed the lives of six paracadustiti the Thunderbolt, the majority demanded the withdrawal of troops percentage now set to rise. This was revealed by the Corriere della Sera, citing some of the major opinion polling.
A president "tanned" in Italy?
If a citizen from the skin perfectly candid aspired to political office in Italy, you better think again. "I do not want in five years and one month to get a tan president," said Roberto Calderoli the other night in Treviso. The Northern League minister had already distinguished for a similar sortie against his Italian compatriot Rula Jebreal. Imitated by the President of the Council put the same "cuteness" to Barack Obama. Such statements arouse scandal if spoken by people in government in any other Western country. It outlines, in the center-right majority, a split on the principles of the utmost importance
I tell you the paradise where the sun never sets
If this story begins with Finnish, rather a guide to emotions experienced in a quarter century, from 1984 until now, summer of 2009. Start by chance because I learned a phrase, the first sentence Suomi language, an idiom to me impossible, "Aurinko and Laske" in Italian translates as "The sun never sets." But it means something more than a consideration of geography, astronomy, physics. To me it means here, are facing the light, hyperbole color, the clarity of sunrises and sunsets, but it seems there are not really there for days, weeks.
Why can not the media tell the truth
There is something naive in some of the criticisms that are addressed daily in mass media: they raise no problems, they do not deal in some subjects, they use a particular language, that they support systematically and in unison certain interests, they journalists or politicians that overshadow those interests conflict (but really, at this time, such policies have never seen even the shadow). Critical naive, because they concern profiles that can not be but as they are. So you claim, we would say almost childlike, the "free press" and "free television", attitude, choices, addresses
