Loretta Napoleoni

The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations…

— Loretta Napoleoni

I think generally the heads of terrorist groups are very, very smart people. They're also great manipulators. I would presume that cult…

— Loretta Napoleoni

Europe has been in the grip of a very serious economic crisis for few years, so there have been major cuts to…

— Loretta Napoleoni

Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another.…

— Loretta Napoleoni

I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and…

— Loretta Napoleoni

So I think if we want to turn the table around, more than thinking about how can we starve the Islamic State…

— Loretta Napoleoni

I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now,…

— Loretta Napoleoni

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it…

— Loretta Napoleoni

Terrorism is actually a very expensive business.

— Loretta Napoleoni

Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then…

— Loretta Napoleoni

Contrary to what many people believe, terrorism is actually a very expensive business.

— Loretta Napoleoni

Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.

— Loretta Napoleoni

Well, I think here there is some money gathered, especially in Europe, through the web, through connection to a network. I mean,…

— Loretta Napoleoni

Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas,…

— Loretta Napoleoni

I think that anybody can become a terrorist. That's my point of view. But, not everybody can actually kill. In order to…

— Loretta Napoleoni

It is not possible to starve an organised terrorist group because it is number one a state, so it levies taxation inside…

— Loretta Napoleoni

I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and…

— Loretta Napoleoni

As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation.

— Loretta Napoleoni

Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment…

— Loretta Napoleoni

Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners…

— Loretta Napoleoni