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Nadia Lauricella, the Sicilian Ironwoman

Italy: The Life-Story of Nadia Lauricella [“Iron-Nadia”]! (12.6.2025)

I believe that everyone must play an active role in their own reality: only in this way can institutions be brought closer to the real needs of citizens, especially in terms of disability. For a disabled person sometimes a step is a problem, a road with potholes, the lack of traffic lights with acoustic signals… Therefore, it is the duty of every citizen to commit ourselves to achieving a truly inclusive society, where everyone’s needs are taken into consideration by those involved in urban planning, architecture and social policies.

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Email: Russia’s False Dichotomy Between ‘Nationalism’ & ‘Neo-Nazism’! (5.7.2022)

A modern Russian can be ‘racist’ and ‘homophobic’ claiming that these attributes are part of his modern ‘Slav’ identity (‘Nationalism’) – whilst simultaneously asserting that these viewpoints are ‘separate’ and ‘distinct’ from Hitler’s ‘National Socialism’ and any post-1945 versions of it (that is ‘Neo-Nazism’)! This is wrong. It is an assertion even contradicted in the text itself, which readily admits that the Hitlerite ‘Combat 18’ (Neo-Nazi) is the military wing of the ‘British National Party’ (a Party in the UK that prided itself on it ‘English’ Nationalism)! I notice that even within general Russian language discourse, ‘Neo-Nazis’ in the Ukraine are often referred to as ‘Ultra-Nationalists’ – with the Neo-Nazi Battalions are acknowledged as forming the Hitlerite ‘National Guard’!  

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