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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• The Dark Heart of Italy - a review

  During the Italian European Union Presidency, Silvio Berlusconi once again shot to prominence all around Europe. Shane Barry reviews The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones, whose thesis remains that Silvio Berlusconi is tied very much to that dark heart.

  
  
• Guantánamo - Why you need to care.

  The legal black hole that keeps 'suspects' detained by the US military in Guantánamo is not just an issue for liberals. From a pragmatic as well as moral perspective the system created in response to the September 11^th attacks needs to change argues David Rose, journalist and author of Guantánamo. America's war on Human Rights.

  
  
• Tales of torture, and so on - Jon Ronson, author of The men who stare at goats, in interview

  It may well be a sign of the times, that a humorist is left with the responsibility of informing the public about torture. In his book The Men who stare at goats Jon Ronson presents human portraits of some of the US Military, whose ideas have in part inspired events in Abu-Ghraib, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. In interview he discusses the tension between humour, journalism and social commentary in his work.

  
  
• From Fertility Symbol to Political Propaganda - Decoding the Massa Marittima Mural.

  In 2000, in the small Tuscan town of Massa Marittima, a bizarre mural depicting a tree covered in phalluses was uncovered by restoration workers. Through close analysis of the images and symbolism, historian George Ferzoco argues that this painting tells us valuable new information about the nature of popular culture in medieval and renaissance Tuscany and Europe.

  
  
• Avoiding the Question - the continuing peak oil production debate. An interview with Robert Hirsch, Author of Peak Oil Report for U.S. Department of Energy

  In March 2005 the US government quietly published the findings of scientists commissioned by the Department of Energy to investigate the issue of peak oil production, and its impact. The issue is finally making it's way into the main stream press, but clear answers are hard to find, as demonstrated by this interview with one of the report's authors, Robert Hirsch.