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What Italy's Defeat of Water Privatization Means for the Rest of the World

Daniel Moss, YES! Magazine. August 10, 2011.

In Italy, 96 percent of voters rejected their government's push for water privatization. So what happens next?

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Sits in Prison While the IMF Keeps Ravaging Entire Economies Every Day

deleted, AlterNet. May 18, 2011.

The IMF can do far more damage trashing global economic well-being than the man behind the sex abuse scandal.

Gay-bashing at the Tuscan Seashore

Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian. August 16, 2010.

"Suddenly a kiss has become obscene and illegal simply because it has taken place between two people of the same sex."

Why "Eat, Pray, Love" Makes Me Want to Gag

Sandip Roy, New America Media. August 15, 2010.

Do we need another movie about a self-centered Westerner squeezing one-dimensional natives for exotic food, wisdom, and spirituality?

Westerners Who Condemn So-Called "Honor Killings" Must Confront Gender Violence Within Their Own Culture

Anna Momigliano, The Nation. February 4, 2010.

To consider honor killings in Muslim communities a crime unto itself overlooks the patriarchal roots of much of the intimate partner violence against women in the Western world.

Did the Mafia Set Off a Series of Racial Battles with African Migrants?

AlterNetJanuary 12, 2010.

The clashes began Thursday night in Rosarno, a working-class city amid citrus groves in Calabria, the toe of Italyâ€™s boot.

Italy's Media Wrestle With Immigrant-Bashing

Sandip Roy, New America Media. December 2, 2009.

Italy's cultural landscape is undergoing a significant (and, for some, exciting) change. But will native Italians tolerate it?

Who's Been Held Accountable for the Crimes of Bush's "War on Terror"? Four Italians ... Sort of

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 5, 2009.

Certainly not those who ran our shadowy network of secret prisons, nor their superiors who created it.

23 CIA Agents Convicted in Italy for Kidnapping Egyptian Cleric

Gina Doggett, Agence France Presse. November 4, 2009.

The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Seldon Lady, was sentenced to eight years in prison and othersto five years, all in their absence in the landmark trial.

Riots Spread in Europe: How Long Till They Break Out in the U.S.?

Ian Welsh, Firedoglake. December 12, 2008.

When will Americans decide they've had enough and start rioting?

Europe Turning Away Migrants at Gunpoint

David Cronin, IPS News. October 29, 2008.

Weapons were pointed directly at migrants trying to enter Italy during a recent operation coordinated by the European Union's border control agency.

New Italian Prime Minister A Blow To Immigrants

Rinku Sen, ColorLines. April 21, 2008.

What does this right wing bent do Italian politics foretell?

Italian Police Storm Hospital to Prevent a Late-Term Abortion

Bean, Lawyers, Guns and Money. February 20, 2008.

Is this what we're heading toward here in the U.S.?

Wanted: More White Babies [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet. February 19, 2008.

Christian conservatives are predicting a looming catastrophe as birthrates fall in Europe.

Anti-U.S. Uproar Sweeps Italy

David Swanson, After Downing Street. May 8, 2007.

The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest U.S. military site in Europe, but the people of Vicenza, and all of Italy, have sworn it will never happen.