Matteo Salvini

And then there's the climate crisis, one that policy analysts sometimes call a "wicked" problem, partly because nobody needs to push a red button or inadvertently spread a virus for it to undermine human society -- just carry on business as usual. Chomsky reminds us that, while the world will eventually…

Writing in his Prison Notebooks, ninety years ago, the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci defined our times. “The crisis consists precisely of the fact that the inherited is dying – and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear”.  Gramsci’s analysis was developed…

SAUL LOEB/AFP Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has responded to a boycott from major advertisers including consumer giant Unilever, which have pulled ads from the social network in an attempt to force the platform to censor more constitutionally protected speech. In a post on his personal page, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg…

A total of 28 migrants out of 209 transported by the pro-migrant NGO Sea-Watch have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus after being placed in quarantine by Italian authorities. The 209 migrants were brought from the search and rescuer (SAR) zone off the coast of Libya by the leftist NGO.…

Dozens of migrants rescued from the Mediterranean test positive for coronavirus after being brought to SicilyThe 28 migrants are being held in quarantine on a ship off the coast of Sicily German NGO SeaWatch who rescue migrants have been testing refugees at sea Handful of positive cases have also been recorded among…

Three months ago, public health officials feared that America would be swamped by COVID-19 like Italy. Today, the U.S. would be lucky to swap its coronavirus crisis for theirs. Italy’s sudden surge of coronavirus in March swamped hospitals, pushed the nation into a strict lockdown and forced its doctors to…

The Italian left-wing “Five Star Movement” (M5S) received 3.5 million Euros (about $4 million) from Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez in 2010, the Spanish newspaper ABC revealed this week. The Five Star Movement is an Italian populist Leftist movement founded in 2009 by comedian Beppe Grillo and web strategist Gianroberto Casaleggio.…

When three people in the northern Italian region of Liguria tested positive for the coronavirus last week, they gave their doctors permission to punch into a national server anonymous codes generated by a new contact tracing application on their phones. Moments later, the phones of people who had also voluntarily…

HOMEDCinquefrondi in the Italian countryside is selling homes for less than a cup of coffee.With its jumble of ochre coloured buildings cascading down a rugged Calabrian hillside, the village of Cinquefrondi is picture postcard perfect - almost. Look a little closer and you'll find parts of the village in need…

A 55-year-old judge in the French city of Dijon has been arrested after trying to pimp out his 12-year-old daughter to other men on a “libertine” dating forum website. The judge is said to have been a member of the website’s community, along with his wife, and went as far…