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Understanding power in Italian
academia
September 24
2007:
Sadi Marhaba provides an in-depth
analysis of the concept of power within Italian academia.
Three Euroboos for
Giuseppe Silvestri!
March 13 2007:
Giuseppe Silvestri,
Chancellor of the University of Palermo and representative of
the Italian Conference of University
Chancellors (CRUI),
was recently
challenged at the Italian
Embassy in London.
Francesca Patanè
comments on his booed reception.
This
sick world
March 7 2007:
Francesca Patanè
comments on soccer hooliganism in Italy.
Just how credible is the European Court
of Justice?
February 3 2007:
JUST Response invites the 13 members of the European Court
of Justice's Grand Chamber of judges
to resign
over their rejection of the European Commission's request for Italy to
be fined for discriminating against foreign-language lecturers in
Italian universities.
Family
format in Italian university colleges
February 2 2007:
Francesca Patanè
illustrates the principle of Italian academic family trees with two
Sicilian examples from Palermo and Catania.
Conjugating plagiarism: io plagio, tu plagi ...
January 3 2007:
I plagiarize, you plagiarize, he plagiarizes, we
plagiarize, you plagiarize, they plagiarize form the present indicative
tense of the grammar most commonly used in Italian academia, says
Francesca
Patanè.
A mathematical exposition of rigged 'concorsi'
October 26 2005:
Quirino
Paris adduces formal mathematical proof to illustrate the rigging
of teaching staff selection procedures, or concorsi, at
Italian universities.
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.
Cut cash
to Italy's universities
July
12 2005:
A TV
programme broadcast nationwide on one of Italy's 3 state networks has
highlighted the continuing brain drain of young talent from Italy in
search of honest recognition.
But, says David Petrie, the programme didn't go nearly far enough.
Strasbourg
Parliament is pointless
July
11 2005:
Does the
European Union really need 3 parliaments or is taxpayers' money being
squandered? According to David Petrie the Strasbourg Parliament
should be closed down and converted to a European centre for excellence.
Nationality
irrationality and the Swiss referendum
October 10 2004:
A
referendum in Switzerland has upheld the country's policy of keeping
Swiss citizenship élitist. Héctor Abad Faciolince reflects on
some of the prejudices
underlying the assignment of nationality.
What
Berlusconi has done for Italian culture
June 26 2004: Domenico Pacitti replies to Gillian Harper in
Wellington, New Zealand.
Radio
Mega.1, a Slovenian Odyssey - an appeal to President Drnovsek
March 24 2004:
Investigations
by JUST Response into the case of a Slovenian's 11-year
odyssey to
open an independent private radio network have
revealed rising systematic corruption in Slovenia beyond the external
perception.
Italian
lessons in law breaking - an appeal to President Ciampi for Italy's
foreign-language lettori
March 13 2004: JUST
Response urgently invites Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi,
premier Silvio Berlusconi and other signatories of decree law 4696 to
desist from discriminating immediately and to set a positive example for
Italians by obeying the law.
Between
Europe and America - the Friedenspreis acceptance speech
October 19
2003: On
12 October 2003 Susan Sontag was awarded the Friedenspreis
peace prize at the Frankfurt book fair for being the “most prominent
intellectual ambassador between the two continents” of America and
Europe.
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.
Italy
plagued by Mafia-style universities
August
18 2003:
Italy's
corrupt university system has infected the whole country and is now
stone dead, according to Marcello Pera. That was back in 1995 and
Pera, himself a university professor, has since become president of the
Italian Senate.
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.
An
Indro Montanelli bibliography
July 22 2003: A bibliography of major works by Indro Montanelli
to commemorate his death on 22 July 2001.
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.
More
light on EU institutional corruption
May 18 2003:
'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt speaks out
Watt's
letter to HM Treasury and House of Commons
May 7 2003:
Part
1 of a JUST Response exclusive update in the 'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt case
HM
Treasury reply to Watt
May 7 2003:
Part
2 of a JUST Response exclusive update in the 'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt case
House
of Commons reply to Watt
May 7 2003:
Part
3 of a JUST Response exclusive update in the 'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt case
Watt's
response to HM Treasury
May 7 2003:
Part
4 of a JUST Response exclusive update in the 'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt case
Watt's
response to House of Commons
May 7 2003:
Part
5 of a JUST Response exclusive update in the 'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt case
Watt's
open letter on institutional corruption cover-up
May 7 2003:
Part
6 of a JUST Response exclusive update in the 'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt case
Doctoral
torture: an interview with David Aliaga
December 21 2002:
Bureaucracy,
inefficiency and corruption in Italian academia shattered a Canadian’s
dream of a doctoral degree in his ancestral country. David Aliaga
relates the bitter experience that has changed his life.
Pursuing
Goliath: an interview with David Petrie
December 3 2002: Notwithstanding
over two decades of proven job discrimination and four Euro-Court
decisions, some 1,500 foreign-language lecturers, or lettori, who
teach in Italy's 63 state universities still await a final solution.
David Petrie recounts his long battle to obtain justice for the category.
European
Arrest Warrant peril
November 16 2002: As
EU member states move towards tighter criminal law integration,
Torquil Dick-Erikson raises the alarm over the planned first
step of a European Arrest Warrant.
Mussolini's
enduring grip on Italian media freedom
November 27 2002: An
Italian senator and former journalist has fallen victim to Fascist laws
which continue to limit freedom of speech in Italy. Torquil
Dick-Erikson considers the implications of such cases for the
European Arrest Warrant.
Complaint
to EU Ombudsman Jacob Söderman
September 27 2002: 'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt speaks out.
Complaint
to EU Parliament backed by 205 staff
September 24 2002: 'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt speaks out.
CIA
and freemasons among dark forces in Europe
September 24 2002: 'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt speaks out.
Swiss
Connection and CIA under UN in Iraq
September 24 2002: 'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt speaks out.
The
Marta Andreasen and Fabra Valles cases
September 24 2002: 'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt speaks out.
Freemasonry
and mafia in EU institutional corruption
September 23 2002: 'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt speaks out.
Auditing
Euro-Court corruption: the inside story
September 16 2002: 'Whistleblower'
Robert Dougal Watt speaks out.
Bridge
over troubled water
September 16 2002: The
Italian government wants to span the 2-mile Messina Strait separating
Sicily from Calabria with the world’s longest suspension bridge of its
kind. Antonio Mazzeo explains why he opposes the project.
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. about the pressures on
academic freedom and the advances in our knowledge of language.
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.
See
also: JUST
Response Letters
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