By Roberto Savio* ROME, Jul 2016 (IPS) – William Shakespeare would have loved to witness the Brexit. Many of his themes are evidently present: friendship and treason; truth and lies; deception and betrayal. David Cameron invents a referendum as a… Continue Reading
Viewpoint by Roberto Savio* ROME (IDN) – Polling specialists say that when voters do not feel comfortable in saying how they will really vote, it is because they are not comfortable at a rational level with how they will actually… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Jun 2016 (IPS) – Allow me a rare personal anecdote. In 1965 I met Lord Hume, who had just left the post of Prime Minister and we had a mutual sympathy. Lord Hume invited me for… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, May (IPS) No mention in the media of the dangerous increase in tension between Europe and Russia. But Nato has just made operational in Romania a missile system, the ABM, which the US has declared will… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, May 2016 (IPS) – A new spectre is haunting the world. It is not the spectre of communism, as Marx’s Manifesto famously proclaimed. It is the spectre of fear, which has increasingly become the rationale behind… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, May 2016 (IPS) – Greece is again in the media, because a new negotiation is due between the embattled country and its creditors. The North-South divide of Europe is coming back with force (while the East-West… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Apr 2016 (IPS) – On the 17th of April, Italians were called to vote in a national referendum, on the extension of licenses to extract petrol and gas from the seas. The government, the media and… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Mar 2016 (IPS) – The recent Brussels massacre has created a short term reaction, which ignores a long term projection. All the debate is now about security, police reinforcement, new military strategies, as if terrorism can… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Mar (IPS) The recent German elections went as predicted.. A new right wing, xenophobe party, Alternative for Germany, AFD, has emerged with force, and will bein national Parliament in 2017.This development is unprecedented in German politics… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Mar (IPS) Larry Summers, Clinton’s minister of treasury, has made few friends in life. At that time, he was instrumental in eliminating the Glass Stegall Banking Law, which since 1933 separated the bank’s customer deposits from… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Mar (IPS) The last formal act of European disintegration was the last negotiation between 28 European leaders and the Prime Minister of Turkey. The deal, against all international treaties, is a total capitulation to European values.… Continue Reading
by Roberto Savio* ROME, Feb. – It is no coincidence that Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who died on Feb. 16, was the only Secretary-General in the history of the United Nations to have served only one of the two terms that have… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Jan 27 2016 (IPS) – The rich and the powerful, who meet every year at the World Economic Forum (WEF), were in a gloomy mood this time. Not only because the day they met close to… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* San Salvador, Bahamas, December 31, 2015 – At this time, we all wish “ a very good year”. While the wish is always a positive thing, we should also realize that we cannot expect too much from… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* San Salvador, Bahamas, Dec. 2015 – Christmas is a holiday for the American Congress, so the Republican lawmakers who deny the reality of man-made climate change can conveniently ignore the fact that on the 25th of December… Continue Reading
by Roberto Savio* ROME, Dec – In the space of just a few days, two fundamental lessons have come from Paris for the world about democracy and climate. The media have been dealing with them as separate issues, but they… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Nov 26, 2015 – This week’s downing of a Russian jet by Turkey near the Syrian border will complicate even more the mess surrounding Syria. Putin has called Turkey an “accomplice of terrorists”, and has denounced… Continue Reading
by Roberto Savio* ROME, Nov 24, 2015 – The U.S. Congress, under the valiant leadership of Republicans, has vetoed the entry of Syrian refugees, including women and children, into the United States against Obama’s intention to accept 10,000 – a… Continue Reading
by Roberto Savio* ROME, 17 November 2015 – The media everywhere are now unanimous in their condemnation of the Paris massacre three days ago, calling for unity of the West and intensification of military action against the Islamic States (IS).… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, 29 October 2015 – The last elections of Switzerland and Poland, are good indicators of what will happen elsewhere in Europe, with an irresistible growing wave of refugees.
