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Ancient Rome temples complex, with ruins of building where Caesar was stabbed, opens to tourists

Four temples from ancient Rome stand smack in the middle of one of the modern city's busiest crossroads

The Independent UK

I cannot believe Disney's working on a live-action Bambi movie — this needs to stop

No Disney property is safe, apparently, as Bambi is the latest to be on track for a live action adaptation.

Tom’s Guide

Silvio Berlusconi obituary

Media tycoon and Italy’s longest-serving postwar prime minister whose period in power ended in sex scandals, a debt crisis and convictions for tax fraud

The Guardian - UK

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Italy's Meloni distances herself from fascism on Liberation Day celebrations

Italy's ruling coalition has no "nostalgia for fascism", Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday, looking to push back against critics who have accused her Brothers of Italy party of failing to distance itself from its neofascist past.

Reuters

The artist who had the world at her fingertips

She was one of the world's most highly regarded sculptors so why isn't Dora Ohlfsen a household name?

The Canberra Times

Commentary: Why do so many young white men in America find fascism ‘cool’?

Last fall, just blocks from my apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a gang of neo-Nazis gathered in Harvard Square on a Sunday afternoon. Videos showed a group of masked white men shouting, spitting, cursing homophobic slurs and chest-thumping at students. They were part of the Nationalist Social Club, a local neo-Nazi…

Los Angeles Times

Italy partisans criticize Meloni over Nazi massacre comment

Italy's premier has marked the anniversary of one of the worst World War II-era massacres in German-occupied Italy

The Independent UK

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Italian public sector boss resigns after Mussolini email

The head of an Italian state-controlled company resigned on Tuesday after it was revealed that he sent an internal email quoting from an infamous speech by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

Reuters

Mark Cousins on Hitchcock, Scotland and the rise of the far-right

FILMMAKER Mark Cousins believes Scotland’s screen industry is in a healthy place, having moved from a “C minus” to a “B plus” over the…

The National (Scotland)

Italy has kept its fascist monuments and buildings. The reasons are complex

Unlike Germany, which after World War II underwent a rigorous de-Nazification effort, pride, rather than shame, is the emotion many Italians feel for the symbols of the country's fascist past.

WEKU

So much for "efficient" dictatorships

Mussolini didn't make the "trains run on time," and Hitler's economy was a disaster. Some lessons must be relearned

Salon

The Vexing Rise of the Transnational Right

Lessons from interwar Europe.

Foreign Affairs

Why fascist Italy was the perfect backdrop for Guillermo del Toro's 'Pinocchio'

If you ask Guillermo del Toro whether his "Pinocchio" is appropriate for kids, he will tell you that "it's not necessarily made for children, but children can watch it."

Los Angeles Times

In new ‘Pinocchio,’ puppet owes its life to grief and alcohol

Co-director Guillermo del Toro (‘The Shape of Water’) says the stop-motion film is ‘about things that hurt as a child and as a parent.’

Chicago Sun-Times

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The Independent UK

Italy's Meloni meets Jewish groups, decries antisemitism

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has stressed the “essential importance” of Italy’s Jewish community for the nation and Europe

Reuters

First nationwide map of Italy's fascist monuments goes online

More than 1,400 monuments, street signs and plaques honouring fascism have been put online in the first nationwide attempt to document the symbols of Benito Mussolini's regime that still dot the urban landscape of Italy.

The Independent UK

Why the Qatar World Cup is a betrayal of everything Jules Rimet stood for

The World Cup’s founding father stood up for the working class and saw football as a place for equality to thrive

The Conversation

80 years ago, Nazi Germany occupied Tunisia – but North Africans' experiences of World War II often go unheard

Eighty years ago, in November 1942, the Nazis occupied Tunisia. For the next six months, Tunisian Jews and Muslims were subjected to the Third Reich’s reign of terror, as well as its antisemitic and racist legislation. Residents lived in fear – “under the Nazi boot,” as Tunisian Jewish lawyer Paul…

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The Independent UK

A political World Cup is nothing new

Historical parallels of exploitation, propaganda and moral compromise are clear ahead of Qatar, writes Miguel Delaney

Salon

Is Elon Musk actually a futurist?

The term "futurism" refers to an Italian movement from the 20th century — with ideas quite different from Musk's

Reason

Data on Mass Murder by Government in the 20th Century

Communists killed the most, followed by fascists.

Salon

Why some think fascism is peak democracy

Many fascists think of themselves as advocating a more pure version of democracy, expert says

The Conversation

Why some people think fascism is the greatest expression of democracy ever invented

Warnings that leaders like Donald Trump hold a dagger at the throat of democracy have evoked a sense of befuddlement among moderates. How can so many Republicans – voters, once reasonable-sounding officeholders and the new breed of activists who claim to be superpatriots committed to democracy – be acting like…

Bangkok Post

Reflecting on a century of Fascism

When Fascist Blackshirts marched through the streets of Rome at the end of October 1922, their leader, Benito Mussolini, had just been installed as prime minister.

Al Jazeera

Reporter hails work of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks in new book

Stefania Maurizi says the whistleblowing organisation is key in revealing ‘state criminality at the highest level’.

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