Vittorio Arrigoni, Human

It was not just a volunteer, Vittorio Arrigoni. He was an activist. He was a pacifist. He was an expert on the Palestinian question. He was a writer and a journalist. But above all, was a clear voice, a witness to a complex reality, one in Gaza, who lived inside. Of course, no Italian newspaper had prepared a "crocodile" celebration of Vittorio Arrigoni.

Not because it was known that he lived in a risky situation, but because the entries are entries like its uncomfortable. Why Arrigoni, who wrote the Human belRestiamo and told of Gaza on Guerrilla Radio, a blog, it was a difficult character to deal with, from Italy. Not content to be told from home the reality that he lived.

Netanyahu had assured the United States in 2008 of its desire for peace

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had assured the United States in 2008, before his election, his ability to achieve peace with the Palestinians, according to a document found by Wikileaks, published Friday by the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot. "I shall succeed to mobilize two thirds of the right in any agreement" in peace, had told U.S.

Ambassador James B. Cunningham the leader of Likud, three months before the elections he must win, according to diplomatic telegram from the embassy in Tel Aviv, dated November 24. "If Obama wants to work with me, we will be able to advance in a real" peace process, Netanyahu had said, stressing that "it was able to compromise and achieve results." At the same time, he promised that if he carried the election "he would form a government of national unity, which does not happen in practice.

The government: "Italy will not participate in raids" rain of missiles on Saddam's Size: 8 dead

Italy does not participate directly in NATO raid. The Council of Ministers today confirmed the line kept far from our country. "We have enough," said Silvio Berlusconi's second government sources. The government's decision earlier in the same direction yesterday by Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, who yesterday, at the end of the Atlantic Alliance in Berlin, spoke of "reluctance" to take part in the bombing (read the record of 14 April ).

Moody's notes the degrade of Ireland

The rating agency Moody's Investors Service downgraded, Friday, April 15, two notches note of Ireland's "Baa1" to "Baa3", pushing the island at the lowest possible level for reliable borrowers, because of degradation of the country's economic prospects. The future trend of this note is "negative", which means that Moody's does not degrade further over the medium term.

"The main reason for the downgrade today is the further weakening of the financial soundness of the Irish government, because of sluggish economic activity and the implementation of new commitments to banks," explains agency. The deteriorating economic outlook of the former "Celtic Tiger" due process of fiscal consolidation, further contraction of credit in the private sector and a less favorable environment for interest rates, says Moody's .

Who was Arrigoni, the "Vik" and "Utopia" in Gaza

Vittorio Arrigoni on the cover of Courrier International, the French equivalent of our 'International' (photo taken from Facebook) In three years he had become a "national" of Gaza, respected by the people who attended a human shield by the farmers on the border with Israel or fishermen who ventured beyond three miles from the coast, where he takes the Israeli blockade.

And it is in Gaza that he met his death Vittorio Arrigoni, "Vik" to his friends, the 36-year old activist Lombard International Solidarity Movement. His group had already had one dead, the American peace activist Rachel Corrie, crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in March 2003 while trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian houses in Rafah.

A year later, BP he cleaned the spill in the Gulf of Mexico?

They were likely to express their anger, Thursday, April 14, outside the headquarters of BP in London. Shareholders, artists, activists and even fishermen who had traveled from the United States disrupted the holding of the annual meeting of shareholders of British Petroleum, the first since the disaster last year.

• Emails Show BP Trying to Tamper With Oil Spill Studies (15/04/2011)
• Event Coordinator Extraordinaire (15/04/2011)
• Meet the BP "Spillionaires" (14/04/2011)
• BPFC Braille Crest (14/04/2011)
• Breathing Room for BP (15/04/2011)

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Human remains, Victor

Vittorio Arrigoni was dead because we are not quite human remained. Or perhaps, the stories and the clouds over Palestine, we are not ever been. I heard the voice of Victor for the last time a few days ago, for an evening that we had organized in Milan on the next departure dellaFreedom Flottille. An evening of silent and dark.

Speaking in Milan of Palestine is like uncovering an island that no one wants to put on the map. His phone call that night was a bridge built in a moment that has led us to a heart so equal in so many different territories. His voice was firm, surgical and sharp man who can not avoid being aware of it.