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The Napoli Solution Goes Nuclear

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Underneath the mountains of rubbish that litter the streets of Napoli and surrounding towns lies a complex, profitable, and extremely dangerous system run by the Camorra. In essence, for years this organised crime outfit has taken toxic industrial waste from Northern Italy, at bargain prices, and dispersed it throughout the Campania region - profiting from [...]

Dancing with Demons

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

It was, in a sense, a political exorcism. At least Fabrizio Cicchitto, a leading member of Berlusconi’s Popolo della Libertà  would have had us believe.
On the 14th of may, at the first sitting of the newly elected parliament, Cicchitto (who in 1981 admitted to being a member of the Masonic Lodge P2), speaking for the [...]