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palude nera

Ahhh... the mediteranean... To a world without borders!

About Me

Living on an organic farm on a mountain overlooking the sea with Fernanda, our dog Speedy and cat Mio -- no more smog, no more vatican, no more traffic -- we're back and forth to Roma where we share a house with friends in Monte Verde Vecchio. Anyone looking for english lessons, translations from Italian to English or video editing with final cut pro send me an email. Work to live and not live to work, writing, slow food, anarchism, communism, art, film, and more surprises on the way... Ciao and Peace from Eco-Kalabria http://www.counterpunch.org/leonardi04102006.html www.counterpunch.org/leonardi05052005.html www.counterpunch.org/leonardi03122005.html.. Myspace Backgrounds

My Interests

music, film, food, love making, politics

I'd like to meet:

old friends and new.................................. no bush no war

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Music:

this weeks playlist... pere ubu, serge gainsbourg, cocteau twins, young marble giants, the arcade fire, boards of canada...

Movies:

kieslowski, kubrick, lynch, pasolini, benigni, jarmusch, hitchcock, bergman, truffaut, de sica, chaplin, fellini, sergio leone, sofia and francis coppola, polanski, wells, woody allen, wenders, goddard, loach, arcand, lang, kusturica, antonioni...

Television:

sucks and is worse in Italy than about anywhere in the world

Books:

lots and lots, at the moment...

Heroes:

don't believe in heroes...

My Blog

Italian Elections: The Return of Berlusconi and the Ralph Nader Effect on Italys American In

Over the past week Ralph Nader received more media attention in Italy than he did in the run up to the 2000 election. While there were brief mentions in the press of Nader's announcement to run again ...
Posted by palude nera on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:39:00 PST

Valerio Volpi, How Italy Became a Launching Pad for the US Military

October 4, 2007An Airbase in VicenzaHow Italy Became a Launching Pad for the US MilitaryBy VALERIO VOLPIThe presence of friendly governments in Eastern Europe and in central Asian former Soviet Republ...
Posted by palude nera on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:37:00 PST

Cindy Sheehan on Pelosi and Arrogance of Power

October 12, 2007Nancy Pelosi and the Arrogance of PowerLeadership VoidBy CINDY SHEEHAN"They are advocates. We are leaders."House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in regards to "Anti-war activists."People of Ameri...
Posted by palude nera on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:13:00 PST

Vaffanculo Day! Beppe Grillo and fredom of speech

Fuck Them All& A report on Vaffanculo day! in Italy with Solidarity for the editorial staff of the collegian at Colorado StateThe controversy surrounding the Fuck Bush! editorial run in the Colorado S...
Posted by palude nera on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:49:00 PST

Report from Vicenza and the No Dal Molin festival against U.S. military expansion and War

A Report from Vicenza, Italy and the No Dal Molin Festival against U.S. military expansion and War.Vicenza (pronounced Vichenza) is an inland city of the wealthy Veneto region in the Northeast part of...
Posted by palude nera on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:13:00 PST

Emergency in Afghanistan

Italy, the Emergency in Afghanistan and the imprisonment of Rahmatullah Hanefi as the Democrats abandon the world:By Michael LeonardiThe Bush administration, working in tandem with the U.S.'s puppet g...
Posted by palude nera on Sun, 27 May 2007 04:02:00 PST

Italy's Soap Opera from Tariq Ali and Counterpunch

February 22, 2007Prodi's Soap Operatic FallNeoliberalism and War in ItalyBy TARIQ ALIThe states of Western Europe continue to resist harmonisation. On the same day that the chicaneries of every antiqu...
Posted by palude nera on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:41:00 PST

Italy and the American Empire

American Military Expansion in Italy, Hoping for Democracy in the land of Empire&By Michael LeonardiThe Italian people's fury with United States of America's terror war and their government's continue...
Posted by palude nera on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:18:00 PST

Italy's Quest to Abolish the Death Penalty from CounterPunch

Weekend EditionJanuary 6 / 7, 2007Toward an International MoratoriumItaly's Campaign to Abolish the Death PenaltyBy MICHAEL LEONARDIRome.As the execution of Saddam Hussein loomed over the horizon as a...
Posted by palude nera on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:18:00 PST

For family and friends back home in the heart of the beast from Roma, Holiday Wishes 2006:

From the painted desert of Arizona to the majestic shores of the Pacific in the North and from the Great Lakes in the heart of turtle island to the Alaskan tundra, through the Appalachians, Great Smok...
Posted by palude nera on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:56:00 PST