Benito Mussolini News
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Giulio Andreotti, the seven-time Italian prime minister whose legacy was marred by an indictment for collusion with the Mafia, has died. He was 94.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi cited Benito Mussolini ’s diaries and said that he, like the fascist dictator, is thought to wield considerable power, but actually has “practically nothing.”
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Italy’s public debt rose to the highest level since Benito Mussolini won elections 89 years ago, paving the way for his 20-year dictatorship.
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A brown leather suitcase of clothes taken from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini before he was shot by partisans in 1945 is to be auctioned in Dallas this week and may fetch as much as $15,000, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi praised the fascist regime of dictator Benito Mussolini as he attended a ceremony to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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It is sad, but telling, that the economist James Buchanan died just as Congress was finishing up the details of its budget deal. Or, for that matter, that this 93-year-old Nobel Memorial Prize winner left us just as the U.S. entered the stage of enforcement of its new health-care law.
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Rita Levi-Montalcini, the Italian scientist whose home experiments on chick embryos while facing Nazi persecution laid the foundations for her Nobel-Prize winning brain research, died. She was 103.
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Modern Latin-American populism is a 20th-century development, involving the direct contact between a leader (the caudillo) and “his” people.
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On the day Muammar Qaddafi died, a French warplane and an American drone attacked the convoy in which he was trying to escape Sirte. He survived with minor wounds. Suppose instead we had successfully blown him to bits. Would Western officials now be calling for an investigation of his death?
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Muammar Qaddafi’s last moments were captured on video and released on the Internet: In one he is alive and in the other, dead. How the Libyan dictator met his end may now come under scrutiny in a United Nations probe.
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