Loretta Napoleoni (born 1955) is an Italian journalist and political analyst. She is an expert on the financing of terrorism and is known for having calculated the size of the terror economy. Read full biography of Loretta Napoleoni →
Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.
Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in... →
I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former... →
Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where... →
Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas, gray areas where... →
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and... →
Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime.... →
As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation.
I think generally the heads of terrorist groups are very, very smart people. They're also great manipulators. I would presume that cult leaders... →
I think that anybody can become a terrorist. That's my point of view. But, not everybody can actually kill. In order to reach that level, you... →
The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory... →
Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am saying is that the... →
Contrary to what many people believe, terrorism is actually a very expensive business.
Loretta Napoleoni (born 1955) is an Italian journalist and political analyst. She is an expert on the financing of terrorism and is known for having calculated the size of the terror economy.