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Video: Israeli And Palestinian Mothers Walk Barefoot For Peace In Rome Streets 

The activists demanded an end to violence, emphasizing that mothers everywhere want their children to live in dignity and safety.

March 27, 2026 · 5 Comments

Mantas Balakauskas: letter from Rome

I’d really like to tell you everything
but there in the cities we once fully trusted
white noise dominates

November 13, 2025 · 2 Comments

Richard Horan: Notes from Il Campo

It’s carciofi (artichoke) season here in the Eternal City. Everywhere you go, those fat-stemmed, strongly evocative of Bacchus, violet-and-green buds are still-lifing the display tables out in front of every osteria and trattoria from Prati to San Saba.

March 4, 2023 · 2 Comments

Ramzy Baroud: Why the World Is Burning

Global warming is, in large part, the outcome of a destructive pattern instigated and sustained by capitalism. The latter can only survive through unhindered consumption, inequality, greed and, when necessary, war.

August 16, 2021 · 2 Comments

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