by Rosario Iaconis | May 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s that she’s prepared to compromise with the centrists. Who knew? Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Giorgia Meloni is a sinner. In addition to being the Magic Boot’s first female premier, Signora Meloni is the Italian Republic’s first right-wing head of government....
by John Mancini | Apr 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
The once all-male Italian political scene has come a long way as evidenced by how the Right and the Left are now embodied in two women: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and opposition leader Elly Schlein (Sh-line). These ladies are at odds in a cultural war...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Apr 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Looks like the clichéd Italian phrase popularized by the Swedish pop group Abba should have been applied to a new film. I deliberately did not mention Mafia Mamma in my last blog on current movies in the hopes that missives I sent to local Chicago papers about...
by John Mancini | Apr 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Among Italy’s national holidays is Liberation Day on April 25th. It commemorates the day in 1945 that a coalition of Italian partisan groups in northern Italy put the last nail in the coffin of Fascism and the German occupation. Four days later the German...
by John Mancini | Apr 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
An alarm is sounding as Communist China makes inroads into Africa. Just like the old Soviets did back in the 1950s and 1960s, the Chinese offer to build infrastructure in developing nations, funding the projects with Chinese loans. When the Africans find...
by Rosario Iaconis | Apr 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
‘The more you hire, the fewer taxes you owe to the State.’ Even as Giorgia Meloni grapples with Italy’s day-to-day governance, the new prime minister is forging the shape of things to come — what George Herbert Walker Bush called the “vision thing.” Ms. Meloni...
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