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About Mladic ... Do you remember Sarajevo?

June 4, 2010 Europe
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The Balkans back in the news after the arrest of Ratko Mladic (in Serbian Ратко Младић; Kalinovik, March 12, 1942). Military of Serbia, was generally nell'Armata People of Yugoslavia during the wars that led to the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the commander of the armed forces in Croatia and in Bosnia during the war, Chief of Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska [.. .]

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Memory and the Righteous

January 21, 2010 Memory
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Memorial Day 2010. Friday, January 22 was held in Milan, International Conference "Flickers of light. Righteous men in dark times "the exemplary figures of Marek Edelman, Vasily Grossman and Guelph Zamboni. The event was organized by the Association for the Garden of the Righteous in Milan (composed by the Committee for the Gardens of the Righteous, from [...]

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Cain in Rome. The accomplices of the Holocaust

December 27, 2009 Jewish Matters
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When he came out in 1997, the famous book by the historian Daniel Goldhagen, a U.S. based (Title: Hitler's Willing Executioners, Knopf) did not go unnoticed, especially in Germany, where its publication led to a shock. The young and hitherto unknown Harvard professor argued, papers in hand, that it was not only the SS or [...]

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"My mother? I want the truth "

December 26, 2009 Europe
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Talk to the daughter of Anna Politkovskaya interview appeared in Elle, the July 2009 By Marina Gersony "Yes, I remember that day, I remember him terribly well, in every single detail. It was on October 7, 2006. That morning I woke up later than usual, around 11.30. I was pregnant and I went to live [...]

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Tribute to Alda Merini a year after his death

December 26, 2009 Italy
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Today - one year of the death of Alda Merini - want to revive my old interview that appeared in The Independent June 24, 1995. In preparation they called "Alda, won by the poet lives," a title which I believe does not reflect at all the thought of the great poet. In reality it is an interview [...]

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