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Valentino, Paolo
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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Crisis gives Obama's nuclear power plans a boost
US President Barack Obama has promised the US nuclear sector loans amounting to 8.3 billion dollars for the construction of two new nuclear power plants. The liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera analyses the background for this decision: "The serious difficulties on the political and economic front have prompted US President Obama to rediscover nuclear energy. The White House's decision serves a double purpose: it boosts the president's programme on energy issues and unemployment because the project will create 3,500 jobs in the construction phase and 850 permanent jobs once completed. But above all it signals an easing of tensions for the Republicans, who favoured the construction of new nuclear power plants from the outset. He is offering them cross-party cooperation on the passing of his climate protection law [currently held up in the Senate]: nuclear energy in exchange for emissions rights - including fines for companies that pollute the environment as a measure for reducing greenhouse gases."
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Guantánamo without Guantánamo
The liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera doubts that Barack Obama will cease all legal action against the Guantánamo detainees: "It is clear that the new government is firmly determined to bring the war on terror back onto the terrain of constitutional legality. ... The decision to start his term in office with a period of reflection and a case-by-case review demonsrates once more Obama's pragmatic, non-ideological approach. ... But even if most of the roughly 250 detainees are set free and the inhuman cells at Guantánamo are finally closed, it does not mean a definitive end to this detestable system. On the contrary, one of the options being looked into by the new government is the creation of national security courts in which evidence secured through coercion could be used. Human rights activists are worried. But Barack Obama wants to avoid taking risks. ... As president of the United States he wants to - and must - defend the security of the nation. And that means accepting the possibility of a Guantánamo without Guantánamo."
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Similarities between art and propaganda in dictatorships and democracies
The exhibition 'Art and Propaganda, Clash of Nations, 1930-1945' currently on show in Berlin, presents "four hundred paintings, sculptures, posters, manifestos and original films that feed ... the thesis of a 'distant relation' between forms of political self-promotion of three totalitarian regimes [Soviet, Nazi, fascist] and stable American democracy [that of the Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal]", notes the journalist Paolo Valentino. This juxtaposition has triggered a polemic, even if the curator responsible for the exhibition, Hans-Joerg Czech, explains that "to draw parallels between the United States and these three tragic dictatorships is by no means an attempt to revitalise the horrors of Nazism or Communism". The aim is to highlight the similarities, explains Paolo Valentino, who reminds us that "a certain difference remains: for American democracy, propaganda is a rallying instrument, whereas for dictatorships, it is the finality of all art."
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