President Michele Capasso, Chairman of the International Committee Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Director General Pia Molinari, members of the Board of Directors, the Scientific Committee and the Council of Ambassadors pay tribute and express deep condolences for the passing of Prof. Domenico De Masi, a member of the Foundation and 2018 recipient of the "SUM Mediterranean Award for Innovation and Quality of Life".

The United States of the World - with its autonomous sections "Fondazione Mediterraneo" and "Accademia del Mediterraneo" - expressed its deep condolences to King Mohammed VI and the Moroccan members of the institution for the thousands of victims caused by the strong earthquake in the Marrakech region.
The Marrakech office of the United States of the World - directed by Prof. Lhassan Hbid in collaboration with Prof. Mohamed Knidiri - under the coordination of Secretary-General Prof. Michele Capasso, is activating the best synergies to "rope in" and provide concrete aid to the earthquake victims.
It is precisely Secretary General Capasso who expressed his deep emotion for a people to whom he is strongly attached and for a city, Marrakech, that he considers his "second homeland".

Many years have passed since the massacre in Via Carini, in Palermo, where the valiant and ingenious General-Prefect Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, his young wife Emanuela Setti Carraro and the trusted escort agent Domenico Russo fell.
Many years have also passed since the launch, again in that historical moment, of an unprecedented phase in the approach to the fight against the mafias in our country, hitherto supine and characterized by the late intervention "the day after".
Of course, a step forward has been taken, but with shortness of breath, emergency and always lagging behind mafia strategies: first they strike and then the state reacts; first they trample on human rights, attacking social, economic and democratic balances, with money laundering, drug trafficking, extortion and control of procurement and public spending, with the exchange of votes and the infiltration of institutions and bureaucratic apparatus, and only then do we run for cover; first we discover collusions and institutional responsibilities and then we try to sew some patches.
The same "Rognoni-La Torre" law, on the recognition of the mafia association with the 416-bis and on the aggression against the wealth of the mafia, so much appreciated also by Dalla Chiesa, was approved only on 13 September by the Parliament, that is, after that year both those who had promoted it, Pio La Torre, on 30 April, and those who had widely supported it, Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, precisely on 3 September, were killed.
The same story repeated itself at the beginning of the terrible 90s. The set of rules in which the disruptive intuition of the "double track" is substantiated, proposed by Giovanni Falcone, with the 41-bis, the life imprisonment impediment, the establishment of the Anti-Mafia Districts and the Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office and the birth of the DIA, was dismissed by Parliament only after the massacres of Capaci and Via D'Amelio in 1992 took place.
Rarely, along the troubled via crucis of the fight against the mafias, have we known "the Anti-mafia of the day before", the one that knows how to prevent, anticipate and disarticulate the especially collusive power system of the various mafia organizations and therefore obtain results of liberation from mafia conditioning .

A delegation from the United States of the World took part in meetings with Pope Francis in Mongolia.
The Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar takes stock of the 43rd apostolic journey of Francis, "wayfarer of peace".
"Many have written to me because they were struck by the Holy Father's words that extolled the beauty and value of Mongolian history and the Mongolian people," the young cardinal says, and continues: "From the Pope a message for the world and neighbouring countries: "He has shown that not everything is determined only by the logic of calculation, power, prevarication".
The youngest cardinal in the Church (49 years old), Giorgio Marengo, is happy for the satisfaction of a recently concluded visit by the Pope to Mongolia, of which he is one of the architects, that has given "great results" for the present and future of the country. And not only. Results that were moreover "unexpected" for a Church without numbers or means that found itself having to organise an event that marked a first in history: the journey of a Pontiff to the land of Genghis Khan, a Central Asian hinge squeezed between Russia and China, home to a "child Church" of just under 1,500 baptised.
Cardinal Marengo, or rather, "Father George" as everyone calls him here, speaks of "total grace", of an "immense gift" because the joy of having the Holy Father here, with his testimony so humble, simple and close, immediately created a harmony with the people, with people from every possible background.
Secretary-General Michele Capasso recalls the importance of small countries in preserving values and memories and emphasises the role of Asian countries in the development of the United States of the World.