Worlds apart (or perhaps not!)
This week, senior prosecutor of the anti-mafia directorate in Palermo, Roberto Scarpinato, delivered a speech in which he blamed the deregulated market, what he calls "the rogue economy", for the globalisation of the mafia.
"One of the effects of the corrosion of political power is that criminal aristocracies now represent a structural component of the new global capitalism, and they are involved in the new formation of states and are able to infiltrate the structure of weaker states."—Roberto Scarpinato
"It’s the police department, or the drug economy, or the political structures, or the school administration, or the macroeconomic forces that are throwing the lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no decent reason."—David Simon, creator of The Wire
"My novels always recount true stories."—Massimo Carlotto, whose Bandit Love is forthcoming from Europa Editions this fall. Read more>>
"One of the effects of the corrosion of political power is that criminal aristocracies now represent a structural component of the new global capitalism, and they are involved in the new formation of states and are able to infiltrate the structure of weaker states."—Roberto Scarpinato
"It’s the police department, or the drug economy, or the political structures, or the school administration, or the macroeconomic forces that are throwing the lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no decent reason."—David Simon, creator of The Wire
"My novels always recount true stories."—Massimo Carlotto, whose Bandit Love is forthcoming from Europa Editions this fall. Read more>>