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Italy’s Dr. Mengele? A Museum Dedicated to Lombroso’s Controversial Racist Theories

Established not long after Unification, the museum expressed “symbolically the borders, stigmata, and visionary plans of the contemporary project of making Italy.’’ Could it be that the re-establishment of the Lombroso Museum in 2009 represented a repeat attempt to shore up the crumbling foundations of Italy’s own identity in the face of the twin onslaughts of globalization and mass immigration? During his tour of duty in the Piedmontese army in Southern Italy Lombroso developed the idea that Southern Italians were racially predisposed to violent and criminal behavior…This Museum is an open wound that needs to be healed in some manner...

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“Fortress Australia”: How History and Politics Helped to Derail Covid Vaccination

When Covid struck in Australia in 2020 the instant reaction by the Australian Federal government… was to shut down the borders and abandon even those 40,000 Australian citizens residing in other countries who wanted to return. In May 2021, following the Covid surge in India, the Federal government introduced a law threatening any Australian citizen or permanent resident returning to Australia directly from India, with 5 years of imprisonment and/or a AU$66,600 fine. Australians are quite happy to keep everyone out, including their own fellow citizens….

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“Il Sogno e la Ragione da Harlem al BLM”: Interview with Author Daniele Biacchessi

"Normally, when you are one step away from a dictatorship or fascism, you see the difficulty of living in a democratic society, and you realize how important it is to be able to maintain a democratic system. However, democracy is fragile in its own way, people enforce it, and as much as there may be rules, they do not apply to everyone. This was demonstrated by the horrific events of the attack on Capitol Hill. The madness of the United States has often shown as they try to portray in myth a model that could apply to everyone, but there’s no such thing."

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Springsteen’s Message of Reconciliation in the Superbowl Video Displeases Everyone

The issue of Christian Nationalism - an insidious union of patriotism and Christian belief that ties the two together until it’s impossible to determine where one ends and the other begins – must also be taken into consideration. This underestimated and extremely dangerous phenomenon was thrust into the spotlight on January 6, when a group of insurrectionists invaded the U.S. Capitol with an array of evangelical paraphernalia....

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When the Term “Italian American” Means the Worst of Both Worlds

It is no mystery that some segments of the Italian-American community share the rest of the nation's view of African-American's shortcomings as due to "moral flaws": their endemic laziness, the parasitism that makes them dependent on social welfare, the propensity to crime. Paradoxically, these are exactly the same vices that, in Italy, sum up the northern prejudices towards southerners which make up the majority of the Italian diaspora in America.

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Free Speech, Opinions and Ignorance. Where to Draw the Line?

With the right of free speech comes the duty of taking responsibility for what is said. The fact that we are free to express our own opinions doesn’t make these automatically right and true. In fact, what is an opinion? We all have the same rights and you can’t discriminate against an individual or a whole category of individuals on the basis of sex, religion, social class, disability or the color of their skin. The human being originated from primates (a gorilla’s evolution to be precise) between 7 and 5.8 million years ago and you know where? In Africa.

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