02/07/2014 - In these days I was about to publish the communicated rituals about flattering statements by Italian commanders in Afghanistan about the democratic process under way in the country. I did not succeed.

28/06/2014 - For over two years, two Italian soldiers have been held hostage by India and returned by the institutions to the undue judgment of a third state, but now nobody talks about it. It almost seems that Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone have returned to Italy and everything is back to normal as nothing had happened.

03/06/2014 - What I often hear from those who wear the uniform every day is envy, admiration, for the composure of the two riflemen because "in such a situation few would be able to maintain calm for so long".

02 / 06 / 2014 - This morning I posed a problem going to see the parade: what to tell?

Certainly the images that I could achieve could never compete with those of the Rai troops deployed as always at the service of the institutions (and the "institutori").

16/05/2014 - Almost thirty thousand poor people arrived in Italy from the African coast, fleeing the war in Syria and the African armed struggles. An imposing and epochal migratory flow that shows no signs of diminishing, ignored by Europe and managed by Italy with a humanitarian approach that is part of the DNA of our cultural and historical tradition.

15/05/2014 - Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini is in Washington, where she met with US Secretary of State John Kerry.

14/05/2014 - A human stream continues to arrive from the Mediterranean coasts of Africa to land in Italy, the southern border of the European Union. People followed to die in the sea.

27 / 04 / 2014 - Marco Lillo publishes yesterday on the "Daily Fact" an article that in fact denies the guarantee traditions of the political current of the newspaper to which the newspaper refers, tracing a review of the facts that start - in the absence of certain evidence and of a sentence - from assertions of guilt and not of presumed innocence as a State of Law would like.

25/04/2014 - Perhaps more than in the distant Soviet past, Moscow today sports a swagger that is facilitated by a new element: reason.

24/04/2014 - We learn from an Adnkronos agency this morning that the foreign minister, speaking at a hearing in the senate, made important statements on the management of the affair of the two marines.

14/04/2014 - Continues the all-Italian tradition of resorting to the ?? state secret ?? in all those events in which it would be difficult to report and motivate the people on complex events.

A political tradition whose origins are lost over time in recent or less recent events.

13 / 04 / 2014 - In a modern democracy the State is understood as the extended society of citizens living and operating in a well-defined territorial location in which it exercises its sovereignty protecting the rights of each according to the rule of "good father of a family" ".

09 / 04 / 2014 - The British ministry of defense has been accused of trying to block the publication of a book on the lessons learned during the campaign in Afghanistan, because the conclusions reached by the author are too critical.

07/04/2014 - The long Indian electoral round begins which will end on 12 May.

A marathon that many consider as the most significant democratic exercise in the history of mankind.

02/04/2014 - On 7 March 2012, just 22 days after the start of the story that still involves our fusiliers from Marina Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, the President of the Republic e supreme head of the armed forces as established by art. 87 of the Italian constitution, in an interview, explained what was being done at the institutional level for an effective conclusion of the affair and underlined how it was opportune to operate.

31/03/2014 - At the institutional level, it is still recommended to postpone the identification of any errors committed in the management of the affair until after the return to Italy of Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone.

29/03/2014 - Yesterday the Indian Supreme Court upheld the appeal of Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone and ousted the NIA from the investigation into the two Navy Fusiliers, updating the trial in a month.

28/03/2014 - Early morning news, the Indian Supreme Court upheld the appeal of Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone against the decision to entrust the investigation to the NIA, the trial has been suspended and the next hearing will be held in four weeks.

27/03/2014 - On the affair of the two marines, much has been said and much continues to be said and not always in a coherent and related way.

26/03/2014 - Despite the assurances of the new government and the sudden and fleeting awakening of the lethargy of our politicians which lasted only a few days, the two navy riflemen continue to be hostage to India and Italy has returned to the darkness of past that has always characterized this story.