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GNOSIS - n. 4/2008
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Global financial crisis
 Answers by: David GARDNER, Daniel GROS, Alberto NEGRI, Hardo PAJULA, Adolfo URSO
From the George Mason University, in Virginia, Barack Obama, a few days before his inauguration to the Presidency of the United States, launched his anti-crisis “manifesto”, the strategy of which is based on the attempt to elaborate a new model of development. In the same days, in Paris, the work of the International Conference
Editorial
Cronology of Terrorism
INTERVIEW
with the Commander General of the Guardia di Finanza
Cosimo D’ARRIGO

The security in economy
in the epoch of globalization
 edited by Pio MARCONI
 The Guardia di finanza originated as an Institution destined to defend the interests of the Inland Revenue and to protect the national production. The Corp was committed, according to the regulations of the Institution, to guarantee the respect for the fiscal obligation and impede that illegal importation of goods steals resources from the Treasury or could damage the internal economy with the introduction of foreign goods onto the market – tasks which, at the beginning, were prevalently of the State, seen from a conception of the economy tied to protectionist principles...
The ‘Security package
 Natale ARGIRO - 'Giuseppe AMATO
 The internal security is presently the subject of a complex legislative intervention, the so-called “Security package”, constituted by regulations already approved with the Laws of the 24th July, 2008, No. 125 and of 28th November, 2008, No. 186 and by others contained in the Bill 733/2008, still under examination by Parliament*. With this Bill, it is intended to modify – sometimes in a radical way – a major part of the discipline preparing ‘a more efficient normative framework to counteract the phenomena of diffused illegality connected to the illegal immigration and to organized crime, as well as, regulations directed to protect the security of traffic circulation’. Consecutively, we propose two contributions: the first one is a sort of reader-friendly ‘handbook’ of the intervention on the whole; the second one, instead, analyzes, more specifically, the delicate and complex technical-legal implications in matters of expulsion and turning back of the foreigners.
The ‘insider trading of Cosa Nostra
Valeria FIORANI PIACENTINI
 The terrorist attacks on the Oberoi and Taj Mahal hotels at the Hebrew Centre and railway station of Mumbai generated declarations of non-involvement and messages of solidarity with the Indian Government from all the Heads of State of the Islamic Countries. The international analysts are not of one voice concerning the reasons and matrix of the attacks: from the destabilization of Pakistan to the attempt of provoking new friction with India. No-one has yet been able to clarify who was behind this operation, apparently out of pattern for the type of objectives, even less – if they are reliable – the claims of the unknown Mujaheddin of the Deccan or of the more known Lashkar Al Qaeda. ....
Microchip
in the brain Privacy at risk
 Antonio TETI
 To communicate through the transmission of thought; to control a human being through the alteration and manipulation of the mind is an ancient aspiration, practiced, above all, in the East. It seems that the way to reach this objective was first opened by Stalinist Russia in the 30’s and then, after the Korean War, when the survivors of the Chinese prisoner of war camps showed strange behaviour, it was baptized by the CIA official, Edward Hunter as “brain washing”...
The complete version of issue no. 2/2011 will be online in February 2012.