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a lonely worker
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posted 26 March 2006 09:07 PM      Profile for a lonely worker     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Our imperial cousins are at it again:

Opposition Decries U.S. Travel Alert For Italy as Interference in Election

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Opposition leader Romano Prodi says he got on the phone to the U.S. ambassador right away to demand an explanation: Why did the State Department issue a public announcement warning Americans in Italy to stay away from political rallies because of possible violence?

The March 21 caution came in the final weeks of a vitriolic election campaign in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a close U.S. ally, is trailing in the polls. To many opposition ears, the U.S. statement seemed to support Berlusconi's accusations that Prodi's alliance harbors fringe groups in its ranks that resort to violence.

Prodi's "outburst is meant to cover up the reality of things -- that the left is the home of people who practice violence," Berlusconi said.

Last weekend, the prime minister addressed Confindustria, the powerful employers' association, accusing opposition leaders of siding with the left and calling people who supported the opposition "out of their minds."


Sounds like another colonial lap dog is grasping at straws. Hopes the US fear campaign works as well as it did in Bolivia.


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lagatta
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posted 26 March 2006 09:19 PM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This should go in the well-established Italian election thread. I'm so pleased I'm not the only babbler posting on this!

It is ludicrous, there is no more danger during Italian elections than any other time. I've lived through many, in years when the coalitions kept falling apart.

Don't really agree that Italy, a G7-G8 member and a prosperous industrial nation, is a "colony" in the same sense as desperately poor Bolivia, or even the Italian cousins in Argentina. I think a lot of USian assumptions about Italy go back to the immediate postwar period when it was desperately poor.


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a lonely worker
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posted 27 March 2006 12:57 AM      Profile for a lonely worker     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I didn't mean colony in the traditional sense (like Latin America). I meant colony to the REAL powers; the multi-national corporations and their neo-liberal poodles.

Italy is as much under their control as we are. Unfortunately anyone who truly tries to break free from this domination is quickly targeted by the elites.

Thanks for posting the Italian election thread. Its interesting to see a growing backlash to the neo-lib/cons growing everywhere except apparently here.


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