By Roberto Savio* ROME – After Teresa May’s defeat in the British parliament on January 15, it is clear that a new spectre is haunting Europe. It is no longer the spectre of communism, which opens Marx’s Manifesto of 1848;… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio* ROME, Jan 8 2019- The person most qualified to write the foreword for this latest work by Riccardo Petrella, In the Name of Humanity, would actually be Pope Francis, who, using other words but speaking of values and… Continue Reading
Of Cockroaches and Humans By Roberto Savio* Rita Levi-Montalcini, the Italian Nobel laureate honoured for her work in neurobiology, once gave a splendid conference with the title “The imperfect brain”. There she explained that man has a brain that is… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio – Publisher of Other News It is with great sadness and sorrow that I have to inform that MarcoNapoli died. He was one of the key managers of IPS. He was the founder of IPS office in the… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME – According to the latest statistics, the total flow of immigrants so far in 2018 is 50.000 people, compared with 186,768 last year, 1,259,955 in 2016 and 1,327,825 in 2015. The difference between reality and perceptions… Continue Reading
by Roberto Savio* Rome – Donald John Trump, 45th and current president of the United States, has been seen in many illustrious circles as an anomaly that cannot last. Well, it is time to look at reality. If we put… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* Rome, Apr (Other News) – It is now clearly evident that w e are in a period of transition, even though we remain uncertain as to its outcome. The political, economic and social system that has accompanied… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Feb 19 2018 -Since a few days, Amazon has started Amazon Go. The idea is simple: a shop where you go in, take whatever you want from the shelves, and the cost goes automatically to a… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Jan 2018 – This year, we will have 3 million tourists each day wandering the world. This massive phenomenon is without precedent in human history and is happening (as usual), with only one consideration in mind:… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Jan 2, 2018 (Other News / IPS) – Among Bloomberg’s many profitable activities is a convenient Bloomberg Billionaires Index that has just published its findings for 2017. It covers only the 500 richest people, and it proudly announces that… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio My best wishes for a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Even if we do not have many reasons to believe that 2018 will be markedly better than 2017: Trump ends the year much stronger. Nationalism is… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* Rome, Dec (Other News) – On 20 December, Europe’s 28 Ministers of Environment met in Brussels, to discuss the plan for reducing emissions prepared by the Commission, to comply with the Paris Agreement on climate change. Well,… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* First of all, as we focus on the future, it is essential to look at the past. As Paul Raskin eloquently notes, we are united by a shared future, but we are united by a shared past… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Oct 2017 (Other News/IPS) – The last Austrian and Checks elections show clearly that media have given up on contextualising events. To do that, calls for a warning about Europe’s future, as a vehicle of European… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Sep 29 2017 (IPS) – Generally, media have failed to analyse why the result of German elections is the worst possible. Merkel is not a winner, but a leader now in a very fragile position, who… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio* – Other News Rome, July 25 – Politicians are so busy fighting for their job, that it is shocking to see that they hardly notice that they risk to get out of business. Democracy is on the wane,… Continue Reading
Analysis by Roberto Savio* Rome, Feb. 2017 – Let us stop debating what newly-elected US President Trump is doing or might do and look at him in terms of historical importance. Put simply, Trump marks the end of an American… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* – Fondazione Italiani Consequences of the Chinese-Russian Alliance on the relationship between USA and EU The joint military manoeuvres between the Russian and Chinese navies, armies and air forces has kicked off. The common military manoeuvres, that… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Aug 2016 (IPS) – The media are increasingly reporting events in a basic manner, and have by and large abandoned the process of deep analysis. Now is the moment to focus our attention on terrorism. This… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Jul 2016 (IPS) – A sign of the time is that Germany is raising a revolt against the President of the European Commission, Jeam-Claude Juncker, whom Chancellor Angela Merkel imposed in 2014 after a strong fight… Continue Reading
