29/12/2014 - The year that is drawing to a close is marked by worrying signs as terrorism is crossing the borders of the conflict areas of the Middle East and Central Asia and is starting to involve European countries and the West in general.

23/12/2014 - A few weeks ago I had to write in interrogative form if Italy was a ATMs for terrorism.

Today, unfortunately, I'm led to say that Italy is an "ATM" and that's it.

20/12/2014 - After Napolitano, with enviable ease and inconceivable ability to forget his responsibilities for the case of the Marò (the absolute silence in the face of the about-face with which the government of his ?? Monti sent them back to India), after he, Napolitano, had welcomed them triumphantly at the Quirinale, thus sealing the end of their odyssey; the benevolence, which came to try to impose him as Foreign Minister, towards Lapo Pistelli, supporter of an agreement with India to get the so-called Indian justice ?? no more than seven years in prison ?? in Latorre and Girone, to be served in comfortable Italian prisons ?? the pre-Christmas scene of ???? 'Italy s ?? 'is awakened?? with the appeal of the Ambassador for consultations? the declaration that Latorre will not be sent back to India the 13 January ?? etc.

16/12/2014 - Mr. President, we cannot deny that it is with deep bewilderment that today, December 16, I read that you have declared yourself ??strongly displeased with the news from New Delhi about the latest negative developments in the Marò affair…?? is that ??will remain in close contact with the Government and will follow closely…. ?? etc. etc. (so a press release from the Quirinale).

01/12/2014 - Almost a year has passed since the project was born Online Defense. Not the hope of founding yet another defense magazine, the goal was and is to be able to fill a huge gap in Italian popular culture: to accept and know what the military is for and what it should serve.

28/11/2014 - Institutional silence surrounds the story of the two marines which has now dragged on for 1000 days and two weeks spent by our two soldiers in Delhi, hostage of India. 1000 days in which three governments, three foreign and defense ministers have succeeded that have promised so much but little accomplished.

26 / 11 / 2014 - Admiral Luigi Binelli Mantelli, chief of staff of the defense, spoke yesterday in an audition at the 4th commission for defense of the chamber. The gravity of the situation seems obvious to me, we have gone beyond the old waste cuts or increases in the efficiency of the Defense system, if you continue with inattentive political choices the machine will begin to lose the pieces and can no longer perform their duties.

19/11/2014 - In many quarters, especially in the international arena, Italy is considered as the "cash machine" of international terrorism as too often, if not always, it pays the ransom for the release of Italian hostages in the hands of organizations subversive like Al Qaeda and now ISIS.

15 / 11 / 2014 - 1000 days have passed since our two navy riflemen Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone were imprisoned by India without formalized indictments for them.

11/11/2014 - ISIS, the Islamic State abbreviated to IS and also known as Islamic State of Iraq and of the Great Syria (i.e. Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, ISIS,), unlike Al Qaeda, mother of third millennium terrorism, every day becomes a growing reality not only operational but also political.

03/11/2014 - It is difficult to write more about the affair of the two navy riflemen after 1000 days from when the state handed them over "to hostile hands" without expecting their rights to be respected. Almost three years have passed since that March 22, 2013 when they were brought to Indian justice by applying a passive extradition, despite the fact that no evidence of accusation was produced against them.

30/10/2014 - There are about sixty US troops, effective at the Vicenza base, who have been placed in solitary confinement after having been in Liberia in activities aimed at tackling the spread of Ebola.

20/10/2014 - Press sources tell us that the hypothesis of the exchange of prisoners is becoming more and more real for the marines. A silent negotiation developed to close the affair through a direct link between Palazzo Chigi and the office of the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

14/10/2014 - More than two and a half years have passed since that fateful February 15, 2012, when the ordeal for the two naval riflemen Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone began. More than 900 days during which, with rare exceptions, the national media have sipped the news as if to follow a pre-arranged time schedule outside the newsrooms.

08/10/2014 - Ebola is mowing down victims in Africa and has now reached the West as well. For now, two cases in the US and 100 people under observation. Four cases in Spain and 40 under observation andWorld Health Organization (WHO) provides for other possible sick people in Europe.

07/10/2014 - Today, at the h11.50 at Fiumicino's 3 terminal, a small pandemonium broke out when about thirty Kurdish protesters began chanting slogans against ISIS and the massacre in the city of Kobane.

30/09/2014 - According to some Italian institutional representatives, the new president of India should manage the fate of our two naval riflemen Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone in the near future with a "condescending" approach and return them to Italy in the short term .

30 / 09 / 2014 - Several TV channels, including CNN and a Kurdish channel, have aired images of many dozens of Turkish wagons en route to the caliphate. Formally such and "heavy" military support would result from the extortion followed by the abduction of 49 between diplomats and employees of the consulate of Mosul in June.

25/09/2014 - The threat of the kidnapping of Western personnel by subversive Islamic groups has always represented an element of strength for international terrorist groups to exercise political blackmail against the countries of origin of the kidnapped and above all to guarantee their economic resources to carry on the Jihad.

25/09/2014 - The new president of Afghanistan will officially take office on Monday. A few days ago the results of the verification of the independent electoral commission, the winner of the competition confirmed in the former finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, the one in charge of the recount of votes after the report of fraud by the losing candidate.