As Renzi’s center-left government intensifies the project of neoliberal restructuring, a wave of self-organized class struggle takes off across Italy. Back in 2006, Warren Buffet, the notorious billionaire speculator, confessed during an interview that: “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” Since then, that class warfare has been ever [...]

The story of Eataly begins in 2007 with the opening of the first store in Turin (Italy), which was interestingly enough built on an old factory site. This new project of ‘artisan food production at reasonable prices’, led by Oscar Farinetti, the former CEO and President of the Italian colossus of electronics retailers UniEuro, has very quickly extended its tentacles [...]

Di Dario Faccini, da http://aspoitalia.wordpress.com/ Oggi  (19 agosto ndr) è un a ricorrenza mondiale speciale: è l’Earth Overshoot Day. Ma quando è l’Italy Overshoot Day? Impronta ecologica (in rosso) e biocapacità disponibile per ogni italiano. Fonte: FootprintNetwork.  Ormai tanti conoscono l’Earth Overshoot Day. Per usare le stesse parole della Global Footprint Network: Il 19 Agosto è l’Earth Overshoot Day 2014 [...]

It is all settled beneath the chatter and the noise. The silence and the feeling. The excitement and fear. The sparse, erratic flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and the miserable man. All buried by the blanket of the embarrassment of being in the world. Finally, the movie of Paolo Sorrentino made the grade: it won the Oscar [...]