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Side Swipe at Facebook

Facebook remains as popular as ever here in Italy, much to the chagrin of Italy’s powers that be. Hence indirect an attempt to steer Italians away from social networking sites, such as Facebook.

Italian Courage

The mafia is as Italian as pasta, and as efficient as some of the world’s top multinationals. In fact, it may be true to say that Italy’s mafia is the most efficient Italian ‘institution’ of all of Italy’s institutions.

The Mighty Mafia Business Machine

Reading Roberto Saviano’s book Gomorrah, which is an expose of the Camorra mafia which operates from Naples and its surrounding area, may provide some with an insight into the problems which beset modern day Italy.

One Casualty of Many, I Fear

An Italian teacher of English left this comment yesterday. It’s a sad story which paints a bleak picture of the teacher’s lot in Italy today.

Roberto Saviano = Italian Altruisim

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Roberto Saviano the write of Gomorrah is one of a very small group of Italians who dare tackle one of Italy’s oldest and stickiest issues – the mafia.