Giordano Marmone

English is far from being my mother tongue, but it seems to me that in this title ‘lost’ is used in the sense of ‘damned, doomed to rot in hell’, rather than referring to ‘the good old days now gone’.

A student association is proposing to name a room at the Univ. of Ferrara after C. Kirk, a person who was completely unknown in Italy until his murder. Minister Matteo Salvini reposted the news with a clapping emoji. One must conclude that he shares Kirk’s hostility toward democracy and civil rights

Shame on the Italian government led by Giorgia Meloni. They repatriated, on a state flight, a torturer of migrants in order to save him from an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. Now Almasri has been arrested in Libya. What squalor: neo-fascists and accomplices of bandits.

Tanzania arrests senior opposition figure as hundreds face treason charges Opposition party Chadema said that its deputy secretary-general, Amani Golugwa, was arrested early on Saturday.

Opposition party Chadema said that its deputy secretary-general, Amani Golugwa, was arrested early on Saturday.

Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.

‘Imagine if this happened abroad’ was (and still is, to be honest) one of the most common remarks made by Italian progressives in response to the disgraceful behavior of their conservative ruling class. Now, for the first time, I find myself thinking ‘imagine if this happened in Italy’

Flottille pour Gaza : en Italie et en Espagne, la solidarité de la jeunesse et du monde du travail Dans les deux pays, des dizaines de milliers de personnes ont cessé le travail ou manifesté pour dénoncer l’interception des bateaux en route vers Gaza, et marquer leur soutien aux Palestiniens. De n…

En Italie et en Espagne, la solidarité de la jeunesse, des syndicats et du monde du travail avec Gaza et la Palestine est spectaculaire, à la fois massive et unitaire. Que ce ne soit pas le cas en France devrait nous interroger et nous inquiéter. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

Italians take to the streets for Gaza flotilla general strike Tens of thousands of Italians took to the streets across the country on Friday, as part of a day-long general strike called by unions in support of an aid flotilla carrying food to Gaza that was intercepted by Israel this week.

The Meloni government's refusal to recognize the state of Palestine has awakened Italian civil society from a long-standing state of torpor. Now, Italy, together with Spain, seems to be leading a peaceful grassroots response to the European governments' inertia.

While the two journalists were later reinstated, the comedian never returned to public television. Autocratic distortions, unfortunately, do not revert to normality. Berlusconi is gone, but Berlusconism remains. Trump will go, but Trumpism will endure for decades

This story about Kimmel reminds me of 2002, when Berlusconi pronounced the so-called « Bulgarian edict » ordering the expulsion from public TV of two journalists and a comedian who were critical of his government. Berlusconi’s sycophants likewise said that the comedian « wasn’t funny »

In Kenya, Gen Z Battles Corruption and Police Violence What keeps the Ruto administration running from crisis to crisis remains a complete unwillingness to listen to people and an unswerving commitment to responding to any form of dissent with violence.

“Those of us who lived through the tail end of Moi’s regime have developed a way of speaking politics in code and rumor, hiding the sharpest tips of our pens in fiction, comedy, and music.”
#Kenya

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conservativism is the belief that only the children of the rich should gets lots of free stuff.

AI will never locate a new archive. It will never uncover a new source. It will never find a small, privately held collection of papers that can upend what we think we know about the past. It can never work with undigitized sources. It can never do real oral history or ethnography.

Two days ago, Italy marked the 45th anniversary of the fascist terrorist attack at Bologna’s train station (85 dead). To avoid the commemoration, Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, former member of the neo-fascist group Meridiano Zero, staged a tribute to the Second Punic War of 216 BC.

When I was doing my doctoral research, I could spend four or five months in a row living in huts like this. Now, after just two weeks, I’m dead tired and starting to dream about pizza. But I’m not giving up on fieldwork and on the inhabitants of this small village, to whom I owe everything.

Once, a missionary told me that that village was every missionary’s dream: a place still almost entirely to be converted. For many years, I asked these people why it would be better for nomadic pastoralists to abandon their religion and become Christians. No one was ever able to give me an answer.

Missionaries using secret audio devices to evangelise Brazil’s isolated peoples Solar-powered units reciting biblical passages have appeared in the Javari valley, despite strict laws protecting Indigenous groups

Reading that these things still happen in the 21st century is astonishing. In fact, the village in Kenya where I conducted most of my doctoral research was considered by local missionaries to be a place of “first evangelization,” meaning that most of its inhabitants followed a traditional religion.

Trump posts bizarre AI video of Obama being arrested: ‘No one is above the law’ President posts fake clip of Democrat being led away by law enforcement amid ongoing controversy over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal

This outrageous disgrace, which is nothing more than an authoritarian threat against the opposition, would be enough to force a president to resign even in Italy, where politicians don’t step down even when they’re photographed having dinner with mafia bosses.

Mother and daughter watch a South American soap opera dubbed in Kiswahili in Jambiani, Zanzibar. A classic example of how mediascapes take shape, following Appadurai’s framework, prompting reflection on their potential effect on deterritorialized imaginations.

semaukwelikenya TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE: YOUTH ARRESTED AND DETAINED ON TRUMPED-UP CHARGES 20 young men are currently being held in remand at Naivasha prison on alleged trumped-up charges of engaging in violence and resisting arrest during the recent Saba Saba demonstrations in the town. They were remanded on 10th July after failing to raise the KSh 30,000 cash bail set by the court. A brother to one of the arrested youth told us that his brother, who just turned eighteen a month ago, was picked up by the police together with a group of young men, some of whom were trying to get home from work, while others were standing outside their businesses to protect them from looters. They claimed that the police were arbitrarily arresting anyone they came across and charging them with participating in the violent protests. Chief Justice Martha Koome must ensure that those arrested on charges of engaging in violence during the protests get justice, beginning with setting reasonable bail terms. The courts have been setting bail that the majority of those arrested can not afford. The consequences of this can be tragic given the penchant for violence by the police. The recent murder of Julia Njoki, who died from injuries she sustained after allegedly being assaulted inside a police cell, is a case in point. She could not raise the KSh 50,000 bail set by the court at her arraignment following her arrest in Nanyuki on Saba Saba day. As 20 young men in Naivasha (as well as many other youth across the country) await their fate, the country is watching to see whether justice will be done. The courts must not capitulate to the executive and must protect our democracy from autocratic rule. #SemaUkweli

The #Kenya police is randomly rounding up young men in various towns and accusing them of terrorism in relation to the July 7 Saba Saba protests.

Etats-Unis : emprisonné cent jours, l’étudiant propalestinien Mahmoud Khalil réclame 20 millions de dollars à l’administration Trump Détenu de mars à juin outre-Atlantique, le jeune homme accusé d’être un «soutien du Hamas» poursuit à présent le gouvernement américain pour une détention qu’il juge «politique».

Etats-Unis : emprisonné 100 jours, l’étudiant propalestinien Mahmoud Khalil réclame 20 millions de dollars à l’administration Trump

A seaweed farmer walking on the water in Zanzibar

Back in the field! It has become morally difficult to work on the controversial effects of USAID interventions among mobile pastoralists in northern Kenya. I don’t want to provide ammunition for the follies of the Trump administration. It’s a real dilemma!

Visiting my parents in Bari, southern Italy, early summer 2025

Cérémonie des prix de thèse : « J’espère que mes recherches auront un impact sur la société » Comme chaque année, l’Université de Strasbourg célèbre l’ensemble des thèses soutenues en 2024. La cérémonie a lieu ce vendredi 20 juin au Palais universitaire, et débute par la remise des prix de thè...

Comme chaque année, l’Université de Strasbourg célèbre l’ensemble des thèses soutenues en 2024. La cérémonie a lieu ce vendredi 20 juin au Palais universitaire, et débute par la remise des prix de thèse.

HAPPENING NOW: A sea of protesters have gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a “No Kings Day” rally against Donald Trump (Video: WXYZ-TV)

On his first Father’s Day, Mahmoud Khalil will sit in a detention center 1,500 miles away from his wife and newborn son, as punishment for speaking out in support of Palestinian rights.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Sound familiar?

Mort en garde à vue d’un blogueur au Kenya : la thèse du suicide écartée par les légistes Albert Ojwang, blogueur de 31 ans, est mort quelques heures après avoir été arrêté samedi dernier, après avoir accusé sur les réseaux sociaux l’inspecteur général adjoint de la police de corruption. L...

In 2017, Kenya became the first African country where a presidential election was annulled by the Supreme Court due to electoral fraud. In 2022, the opposition defeated the incumbent government at the polls. However, the “only democracy in East Africa” has always also been this.

University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted

Ça va très loin là.

The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups.

The Trump travel bans are back. How much do you want to bet that they meant the Democratic Republic of Congo and not the Republic of Congo?