Sicily

G7 Leaders Impose Immigration Problems on Public, But Don’t Want to Face Them During Their Meeting in Sicily

The leaders from the G7 conference who met in Sicily banned the boats that deliver African immigrants to Sicily because they don't want to be subjected to their own policies of interacting with migrants who are engaging in gang warfare on the streets against the Sicilian mafia. [...]

Italian Populists Lead Parliamentary Push to Alter NATO Ties

Sputnik – February 12, 2017 Italy’s Five Star Movement party has proposed a way of altering how the country participates in NATO, party member Manlio Di Stefano told Sputnik Italy. In an interview with Sputnik Italy, Manlio Di Stefano, a parliamentary deputy from the country’s populist Five Star Movement, said that the party has proposed a […]

Are You Eating Fake Olive Oil?

With high-end food profits often being as lucrative as street drug-trade, the problem of ‘fake foods’ continues to persist. One main ‘fake food’ stocking store shelves is olive oil – with fake olive oil being exported from Italy. With first-pressed, real olive oil going for as much as $50 a gallon, food fakers have been adding cheap additives like sunflower or canola oil to real, extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) to produce the same gallon of ‘olive oil’ for as little as $7.

Italians protest against US plans to build radar system on Sicily

Press TV – August 11, 2013

Thousands of people in Italy’s Sicily have staged a protest against the US military plans to build a satellite communication system on the Italian island.
The protesters marched on Saturday through the southern city of Niscemi opposing the construction of US military facility, which will include some large radar and tens of radio antennas. The city already hosts 46 US military satellites.