Italy: An African Killed in the Street Among Idle Passers-By

Marinella Correggia In Italy, Akila Ogorchukwu, a disabled Nigerian street vendor was punched and strangled in the street in Civitanova Marche by a 32-year-old Italian man with a history of violence and drugs. The deadly attack lasted four long minutes and took place in a central street. No one present intervened. Witnesses took video footage,…

How the CIA and Italy’s Secret State Manipulated the Right and Infiltrated the Left

Asa Winstanle Supporters of Italian neo-Nazi group National Vanguard at the 2019 funeral of its founder Stefano Delle Chiaie. Some of its members have been found guilty of the 1980 Bologna bombing. But questions remain as to what extent the group was simply a puppet of the Italian secret state and its CIA masters. (Fanpage.it)…

Giuliano Brunetti: “Our Struggle Against NATO Is a Struggle Against Occupying Forces”

Zoe Alexandra Potere al Popolo and other left organizations mobilized in Rome against NATO and military occupation of the country. Photo: Potere al Popolo The offensive military alliance has been at the heart of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, which has led many to question the alliance itself and what it means to be part…

How the U.S. Keeps Fascism Alive and Well in Italy Today—As It Has Kept It Alive Every Year Since 1943

Aidan O’Brien The U.S. Continues to Manipulate Italian Politics to Ensure that Italy Remains a NATO Vassal State “The impression was that the Americans would do anything to stop Italy from sliding to the left.” —General Giandelio Maletti, Head of Italian Counter-Intelligence in the early 1970s.[1] “The Pentagon has turned the Italian peninsula into a…

Ten Years Ago: The Assassination of Gaddafi. A Black Page in the History of Italy

Marinella Correggia Sirte after NATO bombing, 2011 Libya, October 20, 2011: jihadist brigades supported by NATO captured and assassinated the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who, together with his men, was trying to move away from the city of Sirte, his last stronghold, reduced to rubble by a joint NATO-“rebels” action (this is how the militiamen…

Reliving Terror and Fascist Violence in Italy: Assault on the Headquarters of the Workers’ Union CGIL and the Umberto I Polyclinic in Rome

Yoselina Guevara This weekend in Rome, moments of violence and terror were experienced when numerous demonstrators against the “health passport or green pass (vaccination card against Covid-19)” attacked emblematic sites of the Italian capital, in an operation coordinated by the openly fascist Forza Nuova movement. On Saturday, October 9, a group of the “no vac”…

Italy Confirms Life Sentences For ‘Plan Cóndor’ Coup Officials

Kawsachun News The Supreme Court of Italy has today confirmed the life sentences of 14 people involved in Plan Cóndor, the operation in which the United States-backed dictatorships of South America coordinated across borders to brutally repress leftist opposition in the 1970s and 1980s, committing crimes against humanity. The sentence falls on 14 soldiers and…

The History of US and British Support to Mussolini’s Fascism

Shane Quinn Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler stand together on an reviewing stand during Mussolini’s official visit in Munich. | Credit:: Wikimedia Commons  A figure like Benito Mussolini could only have taken power in a nation plagued by severe illness. Italy, a resource poor state, had been virtually bankrupted by expenditure in World War One,…

Covid-19 Started in Italy, in September 2019, Not in China in December

Eric Zuesse The covid-19, or coronavirus-19, virus didn’t start in Wuhan China in December 2019, as has been widely reported till now. This new or “novel” virus was first infecting people in Italy, by no later than September 2019, according to researchers at the Italian Association for Cancer Research, and published on November 11th, as…

Italian Communist Party: Attempted “Colour Revolution” in Minsk. Need for Vigilance.

At this time there are protests in Belarus by those who do not want to accept the result of the elections which, with 80% of the vote, express the conviction of the Belarusian people in President Lukashenko. These mobilisations are an obvious attempt at subversion by forces led by US/EU/Nato, which do not want to…

Covid 19: June “Revelations” and Confirmations

Marinella Correggia Rome’s famed Colosseum reopened on June 1. (AFP) For months we have witnessed the twists and turns, revelations and corrections around Covid-19. Great is the confusion under the sky. But we are not in Mao’s time, and therefore the situation is by no means a good one. Let’s connect some dots. 1. WHO:…

NATO at the Helm of Italian Foreign Policy

Manlio Dinucci NATO Defence Ministers (for Italy Lorenzo Guerini, Pd), meeting by videoconference on 17/18 June, made a series of “decisions to strengthen the deterrence of the Alliance”. No one in Italy, however, speaks about it, neither in the media (including social media) nor in the political world, where an absolute multipartisan silence reigns over…