Which of the two is real Iraq?
Two different images of Iraq are facing each other during these hours. The first, supported by the enthusiastic American and European liberals and radicals, is portrayed by the film-maker Kathryn Bigelow, author of “The hurt locker”, winner of the Hollywood Award: war in Iraq depicted as madness and illness, sado-masochistic dependence of the American soldiers from the taste of death and the pleasure in violence
Three good reasons to say no to Tobin or to whatever EU tax
Since the birth of Nation-States, national identity has been based on common language and on artificial symbols such as flag, national anthem, public holidays and so on. Some years ago, as the Convention discussed the new European Constitution, it had to face a question: what makes us feel European?
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