The forces that will rule the world are financial, migratory and technological. In the technological field numerous innovations are transforming both the industrial and energy sector: it is what we call and will call industry 4.0. Very soon workers’ lives and, therefore, our lives as well, will never be the same. We are talking about…
The Stanford experiment in 1971 is one of the most famous experiments in social psychology: its dramatic results lead to the need of forcing its interruption after only six days. Some boys, without a past of deviance, were divided into two groups to simulate a prison activity; in no time the guards became sadistic and…
History repeats itself, it’s nothing new. Are we able though to recognize the eternal return of the same? Have we become capable to realize when something terrible or awesome is outlining in front of us? Finally, are we able to learn from our mistakes in order to avoid making them again? The Brexit, President Trump,…
Pratheepa has known what it means to be uprooted from your own village, trained and sent to war, to suffer physically and psychologically, to be injuried, to have your own personality cancelled and then live a rebirth, a new life, a love, a family. She’s one, but not the only one. There are many child…
In Syria and Iraq, the strategic set ups and the most influential players are changing, but the conditions that facilitated Isis emergence and proliferation are still the same. Suffice it to think about the aftermath of the wars wanted by the United States in the Middle East in the Bush era, or else having a…
The question is whether Donald Trump understands that being the President of the United States is not the equivalent to being the CEO of a company, the owner of a skyscraper or the captain of a ship. Being the President is a complex job that requires in-depth knowledge of the internal and international balances. These…
The war in Syria is not new. Since March 2011 there have been thousands of victims of a fratricidal conflict that sees the central government of Bashar al Assad opposed by many representatives of various groups, often simply referred to as “rebels”, but whose ranks are marked by the clash between profoundly different groups. As…
Trump and Putin, Putin and Trump. The weird couple is making the entire world talk. The issues: NATO and Europe, the Middle East, but also China and Asia. Their speeches sound like a spartition of the world ‘Risico’ – style. Donald Trump has just sworn as 45th President of the USA. The protests worldwide have…
In the past few months Turkey, Iraq, all Middle East have been shaken by several attacks. They have been carried out by different array groups affiliated with Al Qaeda e Isis. To understand the set-ups of the never ending Middle East conflict, we must be aware of the more or less openly declared political and…
Not just hidden behind a veil, but covered up up like deep-sea divers, living hidden behind the shadows of a cloth, their freedom entangled within the fabric: this is the life of women in Saudi Arabia. The years go by, one after another. The few, very few concessions of the country’s rulers slowly follow one…
