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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Your Beatitude, Mr President - interviewing Makarios 1964.

  In 1964 Richard Gilbert interviewed Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios, against a backdrop of building tension between the Island's Greek and Turkish communities. In an extended piece for Three Monkeys Online, Gilbert presents the interview and a personal snapshot of history unfolding.

  
  
• Who's to blame? The Fosse Ardeatine and the struggle over memory in modern Italy.

  The massacre of 335 civilians in Rome's Fosse Ardeatine caves was one of the most brutal acts during the German occupation of Italy. What is surprising, though, is that in popular memory there is an ambiguity regarding who was to blame for the massacre. Alessandro Portelli, of Rome's La Sapienza University explains to Three Monkeys how the story of the massacre has been confused over decades, and the importance it has in modern day Italy.

  
  
• Cold War Psychohistory in the Scottish Psyche

  The very essence of the cold war was dividing the world into blocs, of 'us' and 'them'. Strung between Stalin and Gorbachev, things should have been different at the start of the 21^st century, but new conflicts and new enemies have appeared in a sadly familiar pattern. Alastair McIntosh, in a paper delivered at a conference on Soctland's experience through the Cold War argues that we need to examine 'psychohistory' to shake off our cold wars.

  
  
• Making Love in Spanish - Carlos Fuentes and The Eagle's Throne

  Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's most famous literary export, recently presented his latest novel, The Eagle's Throne, to the press and public in London. Ascen Arriazu and Abigail Schteinman met with Fuentes for Three Monkeys Online.

  
  
• The ongoing environmental disaster of 9/11.

  The attacks on the World Trade Centre in September 2001 signalled not only the start of the war on terror, but also the start of an environmental disaster, consistently underestimated by US Government officials, that continues to affect the health and safety of New York's Citizens.