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Authors:
DOMENICO PACITTI
Notes & Comments 2
2006:
Imperato, Italian corruption and the Vatican | Corrupt Italian synonymy
| Berlusconi no Italian politician | When the wrong man says the right
things | Truth, saying and being in Aristotle | The non-lynching of Bush
| Weeping your way to tenure |
Notes & Comments 1
2005:
Spaghetti conjunction | Family resemblances | Limiting freedom of speech
in the EU |
Italian politicians
| Understanding hating | Authority in the nose | Moonshine and theology
| In the name of
Christ |
When artistic depiction is
too strong to bear |
Blair, Bush and the
history books | Words, souls
and people | Rite and wrong books | Changing hands and handing change | UK
journalists manipulated on Italian TV | Spineless backbone in T.S. Eliot
|
Vital disjunctions | Beyond belief | Founding fathers of corruption |
Vatican cash | The weight of Italian scholarship | Mencius, Christ,
Einstein & Russell | Intellectual immunity to appearances | Singular
Siamese relation | Boxing clever | Philosophy comedy | Hell hath no fury
Doctrinal mind control in Italy and Roman Catholic brainwashing - Part 1
August 22 2005:
Biagio Catalano interviews Domenico
Pacitti.
Doctrinal mind control in Italy and Roman Catholic brainwashing - Part 2
August 22 2005:
Biagio Catalano interviews Domenico
Pacitti.
Doctrinal mind control in Italy and Roman Catholic brainwashing - Part 3
August 22 2005:
Biagio Catalano interviews Domenico
Pacitti.
Ten
questions on Italian universities answered
December 24 2004: Domenico Pacitti replies to Jonathan Collins in
Washington DC, USA.
Verona's
answer to the brain drain: the case of Luca Benatti
December 24 2004: Domenico Pacitti replies to Luca Benatti in
Leeds, England.
Doctored
truths from Italian academic Disneyland
October 9 2004: Domenico Pacitti replies to David Aliaga in
Calgary, Canada.
Apostles'
greed: cupola control, cosmetic credibility and high-flying hypocrisy
September 29 2004: Domenico Pacitti replies to Robert J. Martini
in Berkeley, USA.
Why
is the Human Rights Watch Academic Freedom Committee not watching Italy?
August 28 2004: Domenico Pacitti replies to Giuseppe D. in
Messina, Italy.
Why
Italy's 50,000 university teachers should be sacked
July 23 2004: Domenico Pacitti replies to Katarina Björnstjerna
in Göteborg, Sweden.
What
Berlusconi has done for Italian culture
June 26 2004: Domenico Pacitti replies to Gillian Harper in
Wellington, New Zealand.
Berlusconi's
legal reforms: justice or vendetta?
February 24 2004: Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi is continuing
to press on with radical reforms to the Italian judiciary despite stiff
opposition from the magistracy. Domenico Pacitti reports from
Rome.
Anti-corruption
advice for Korea - an interview with Domenico Pacitti
February 11 2004: Domenico Pacitti explains to business
editor Lee Chang-sup of the Korea Times how the current
Korean anti-corruption drive can avoid the pitfalls of Italy's ill-fated
Operation Clean Hands.
Hijacking
truth: Telekom Serbia
September 23 2003: In
the second of a new series of JUST Response features with
Domenico Pacitti, we look at Italy's latest corruption scandal, Telekom
Serbia.
Economising on
truth: The
Economist and Berlusconi
September 17 2003: In
this first of a new series of JUST Response features with
Domenico Pacitti, we look at The Economist's relentless
campaign against Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi.
Italian
earthquakes of corruption: an interview with Domenico Pacitti
August 30 2003: What
is the connection between earthquakes and corruption in Italy and why do
Italian earthquakes always come in twos? Domenico Pacitti
explains.
Roman
Catholic principles of corruption: an interview with Domenico Pacitti
August 26 2003: Domenico
Pacitti traces the
relationship between Roman Catholic doctrine and longrunning endemic
corruption in Italian society. Unless urgent action is taken, he argues,
other EU member states risk being similarly infected.
Berlusconi
on balance: an interview with Domenico Pacitti
August 26 2003: Domenico
Pacitti assesses Silvio
Berlusconi's criminal and political record.
Di
Pietro, corruption and Clean Hands: an interview with Domenico Pacitti
August 26 2003:
Domenico Pacitti talks to JUST Response about former
Italian magistrate Antonio Di Pietro and Operation Clean Hands,
explaining why it eventually failed.
Appeal
for David Aliaga
July 25 2003: Domenico
Pacitti urges the Human Rights Watch Academic Freedom
Committee to intervene in the Aliaga case and help change a
university system that Italians have for centuries shown themselves
unable or unwilling to reform.
Corruption
in Italy: Church, politics & universities - Part 3
July 23 2003: Part 3 of transcript of Domenico
Pacitti's interview with Indro Montanelli on 17 May 1997.
Corruption
in Italy: Church, politics & universities - Part 2
July 22 2003: Part 2 of transcript of Domenico
Pacitti's interview with Indro Montanelli on 17 May 1997.
Corruption
in Italy: Church, politics & universities - Part 1
July 17 2003: Part 1 of transcript of Domenico
Pacitti's interview with Indro Montanelli on 17 May 1997.
Conflicting
interests
August 20 2002: Silvio
Berlusconi is Italy's richest man, with a manifesto little short of
revolutionary, but his opponents see him as a threat to democracy. Domenico
Pacitti reports from Rome.
The
face of revolution
August 18 2002:
As
Italy prepares for spring
elections,
Antonio Di Pietro,
a
man who has become a
national symbol, talks to
Domenico
Pacitti about his
plans
to carry through the
revolution he began as a
magistrate.
Italy's numismatic Mr
Prodi - guru or godfather?
August 15 2002: Domenico
Pacitti asks whether Romano Prodi was the right choice for European
Commission president given his controversial cultural background.
A
handbook for visiting academics in Italy
July 14 2002: 'Paese che vai, usanza che trovi' and other
well-known sayings. Domenico
Pacitti puts foreign academics wise to the Italian university
mentality.
Bolognese
flavoured corruption
July 12 2002: Reforms
in Italy's system of allocating university posts have already been
condemned as a step back in time. Domenico Pacitti tells what
happened to him.
Firm
grip of corruption
June 28 2002: Domenico
Pacitti on the mafia menace in Italian universities.
Alien
nations
June 20 2002: Italy's
treatment of foreign lettori has once more brought it to the European
Court of Justice. If found guilty of discrimination for a third time,
will it change? Domenico Pacitti reports.
Dead
souls
June 10 2002:
Grotesque
mafia-style corruption by Italy's university professors surpasses the
imagination of Gogol. Domenico Pacitti explains why the soul of
Italian academia is dead.
Clan
mentality rules in Italian universities
June 6 2002:
Indro
Montanelli tells Domenico Pacitti that history is the key to
understanding the Italian academic mentality.
Deterring
democracy in Italy
May 20 2002: Noam
Chomsky tells Domenico Pacitti that criminal accusations against
Silvio Berlusconi are trivial by US standards and explains how Italy has
been the main target of US efforts to undermine democracy since the
Second World war.
Truth
to tell
May 20 2002: Noam
Chomsky talks to Domenico Pacitti about the pressures on academic
freedom and the advances in our knowledge of language.
A
new twist in an old turn of phrase
May 20 2002: Noam
Chomsky is taking linguistics in yet another direction. Domenico
Pacitti reports.
Chomsky
offers advice to teachers on the use of science
May 20 2002: Domenico
Pacitti interviews Noam Chomsky.
Evolution
of revolution
May 20 2002: Domenico
Pacitti interviews
Noam Chomsky.
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also: JUST
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