Up to two million marched in Rome’s Circus Maximus Oct. 25 to protest the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi under the slogans “Save Italy” and “Another Italy is possible.” Walter Veltroni, leader of the center-left opposition, told the crowds… Read moreItaly: mega-march against Berlusconi
High-profile Croatian journalist Ivo Pukanic, publisher of the muckraking opposition weekly Nacional, was killed along with his marketing chief Niko Franjic in a bomb blast in central Zagreb Oct. 23. The bomb reportedly exploded under his car and was detonated… Read moreCroatia: terror blast kills journalist
Bernardino Terracciano, the Naples man who played himself in the award-winning film Gomorra about the Neapolitan mob is among seven men arrested Oct. 12 on organized crime charges. Terracciano—the burly, menacing local boss “Zi’ Bernardino” (Uncle Bernardino) in Matteo Garrone’s… Read moreNaples crime war: life imitates art imitating life
The UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentenced Bosnian Army Gen. Rasim Delic to three years in prison Sept. 15 for crimes committed by foreign Islamic fighters against captive Bosnian Serb soldiers during the 1992-1995 war. Gen…. Read moreBosnian war crimes defendant blames al-Qaeda
The Camorra, the Naples organized crime machine, has declared “war on the state,” Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told the Italian Senate Sept. 24, one day after the government authorized sending 500 soldiers to the Campania region in response to the… Read moreItaly: Camorra declares “war on the state”
At least six were injured and 15 arrested as far-right protesters clashed with police, threw stones and petrol bombs and damaged shops and cars along Andrassy Boulevard in Budapest Sept. 20. Police fired tear gas and water cannons on the… Read moreNeo-fascists riot in Budapest
We have argued before: “Classical” anti-Semitism and contemporary anti-Arab racism (and Islamophobia) are genetically linked phenomena. The fallacy is that just because one exists, the other doesn’t. On the contrary, the prominence of one should be seen as evidence that… Read moreAnti-Semitism, Islamophobia surge in Europe: survey
In a major gathering ignored by US mass media, thousands of migrants met in Spain from Sept. 11 to 14 to articulate a set of demands directed at governments across the world. Meeting at the Third World Social Forum on… Read moreSpain: world migrants say no to walls, yes to legalization
Spain’s supreme court ruled Sept. 18 to ban the Basque Communist Party (EHAK-PCTV) on the grounds that it is linked to the ETA armed separatist group and the successor party of the Batasuna, which was declared illegal in March 2003…. Read moreSpain: more Basque parties banned
A Danish appeals court Sept. 18 convicted six people of selling t-shirts to aid the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). A seventh defendant was acquitted. Most of the defendants were… Read moreDenmark: radical t-shirt peddlers convicted
The UN General Committee, which sets the agenda for the General Assembly, voted unanimously Sept. 18 to approve a Serbian resolution calling for a review of Kosova’s declared independence. The resolution, opposed by the US and UK, next goes before… Read moreWorld Court to review Kosova’s independence?
Spanish Judge Balthasar Garzón has ordered government and religious authorities across Spain to turn over information about those killed at the hands of Francisco Franco’s fascist forces following his 1936 military uprising. Garzón hopes to draw up a comprehensive list… Read moreSpanish Civil War “truth commission”?
