Putin: barking but not biting
Barking presidents don’t bite. No disrespect to Vladimir Putin, the man who has been defined as gray and could beat lots of records when it comes to longest term in office. But…
Iran’s Scientists Being Slaughtered
Mustafa Ahmadi Roshan, one of the Iranian scientists working at the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, was slain in the early morning yesterday on his way to work. What killed…
Russia Completes Its Gas Sales Network
The gas and nuclear energy agreement between Belarus and Russia marks a potentially epoch-making turning point. To summarize: Gazprom (the Russian state-owned company in charge of extracting and marketing natural…
Egypt Like Syria: Civil War
After the last few days, one could say that the military junta that holds Egypt’s fate in its hands is walking down the same road as Syria’s Bashar al-Assad: it…
Famine in Africa: Not Caused by Nature
In the early nineties, right after the ouster of dictator Siad Barre (1991), I took a couple trips to Somalia and Kenya. That makes it a nice, round twenty years…
Europe Has No Munitions. And the U.S.…
In just a few, short days, the European countries have been treated like weaklings twice. The first time was by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who said, “The mightiest…
Gaddafi: From Tyrant to Outlaw, But Doubts Remain
The arrest warrant that the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued for Colonel Gaddafi, his son Saif and his brother-in-law Senussi is the logical outcome of the military action…
Middle East: more oil, less democracy
There are eight monarchies in the Middle East: six in the Persian Gulf—namely, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar—plus Jordan and Morocco. They’ve all been shaken…
Safer Nuclear Power? Sarkozy Says No
And so, after ten years at the helm of AREVA, the French nuclear conglomerate that was supposed to build Italy’s power plants, Anne Lauvergeon (a.k.a. “Atomic Anne”) has been dismissed…
Rafah: Gateway for the Entire Middle East
The reopening of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt is very good news for the one and a half million Palestinians who live in the Strip. It frees up…
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Mi chiamo Fulvio Scaglione, sono nato nel 1957, sono vice direttore di Famiglia Cristiana e responsabile dell'edizione online del giornale. Il resto su di me
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