This is the interview I gave on June 7 to SBS Radio Italia. I talked about the 25th anniversary of the brutal crackdown of Tiananmen Square.
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Enough of the martyr Silvio Berlusconi, Originally published in The Conversation, 28 Nov. 2013 By Giovanni Navarria, University of Sydney On Wednesday evening, the Italian Senate forced former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to step down as a senator. In typical Italian fashion, the day of reckoning […]
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Original tittle: Towards A Twenty-first Century Society of Control, first published on OpenDemocracy.net 26 Nov. 2013 – find it here Since last June, thanks to the confidential information disclosed by Edward Snowden, a former US National Security Agency contractor turned whistle-blower, a troubling truth has come […]
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Media, power and decadence: some disquieting trends, Giovanni Navarria and John Keane was first published on THE CONVERSATION, 01 November 2013 While Australians face the possibility of the first-ever Senate by-election, as well as stormy sittings of a new parliament wrangling over the pro and cons of scrapping a carbon tax, […]
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This is a short paper I recently published in openDemocracy. Origitnal title: Malaysia After the Election: A Paradigm Shift? Malaysia’s 2013 general election has come and gone. Before 5 May, it promised to be the most exciting electoral race since the country won its independence from […]
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I recently went to visit the Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen – the Stasi Prison Memorial Centre in Berlin, Genslerstraße 66. The visit was at times daunting, but certainly both worth my time and the 5 euros entrance fee. The tour in English was quite good. It stats at […]
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Move aside, now it’s up to us: Italy’s political quake BY Giovanni Navarria Summary: Beppe Grillo’s Five-Star Movement is not the antithesis to politics, nor is it the end of democracy; on the contrary, it demonstrates that activism in Italy is alive and kicking. ORIGINAL PUBLISHED […]
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Terrence Malick is a reclusive director that shies away from Hollywood limelight (like Vampires from the Sun). On average, he has made a movie every eight years. His first two works, Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) are now considered classic. The latter starred a […]
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Article first published as Book Review: The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell on Blogcritics. The Man Who Smiled (Mannen som log) is the fourth instalment in Henning Mankell’s highly acclaimed Kurt Wallander series. The plot revolves around three murders and the figure of Alfred Harderberg, […]
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105 min – Comedy | Drama – 9 June 2011 (Germany) Critics: 50 reviews Metascore: 81/100 (based on 28 reviews from Metacritic.com) Director:Mike Mills Writer:Mike Mills Stars: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent Meet Hal (Christopher Plummer), his son Oliver (Ewan McGregor), and Oliver’s new girlfriend Anna (Melanie Laurent), they […]
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(NB: questa e’ una versione antecedente e leggermente diversa dell’articolo pubblicato in inglese su opendemocracy 1 Giugno 2012) Recentemente l’Italia è stata colpita da due diversi tipi di terremoti: uno di natura geologica, l’altro invece di natura puramente politica. Per entrambi i terremoti, per puro caso, […]
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