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Caracas, lo specchio di un disastro politico

La capitale del Venezuela è diventata un centro della geopolitica mondiale. Ma come si vive oggi a Caracas? Ai caraque­ños la politica internazionale interessa relativamente; sono soprattutto stanchi. Stanchi delle tante promesse non…

Why the West rules – for now

â–  “HISTORY, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.” This is the definition given by Ambrose Bierce in The Devil’s Dictionary. It is a…

How the Kashmir dispute has gone “glocal”

The latest quarrel between India’s main political parties – the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC) – was triggered by a tweet by Jeremy Corbyn. The British Labour Party leader tweeted that a team of…