A continual revolution, in Italy

06/03/17

Not everyone imagines it but in Italy there is a reality that in recent years is undermining a field in which particular logic and general subjects dominated undisputed.

The authors of this undertaking are not a "party", they are a movement. This innovation alone involved an army of fellow citizens who saw a glimmer of light and seemed to have regained courage. Unlike what may appear, the road is still long and "hostile".

We are talking about Online Defense.

The newspaper has entered a few months in its fourth year of activity. The numbers (doubled) of 2016 have seen an average of single monthly readers (given Google Analytics), which oscillated between 124.000 and 308.000.

When we tell a fact, an event or we analyze an area we have the unfortunate vice of finding direct sources and, if possible, going to the place. Doing so certainly does not help the finances (certain costs and on more than one occasion canceled sponsorships ...) and the applause of the institutions: it is sad to see a press release taken up in the press reviews and not an article made on a front of war when other writings are resumed at the same time under the threat - at most - of a coffee machine.

This is how analyzes and reportages from Libya, Syria and the current (again) today by the Donbass have witnessed and witness a desire for clarity and, as far as possible, objectivity.

What is unique in this paper is the commitment and dedication of the collaborators, now over forty, who share time and resources for a dream: to ensure that even in Italy we can speak freely of Defense without the effects that over half a century of propaganda have resulted in popular culture. And when it comes to "culture" the measure is for us what the people know at the bar in the morning, not some eminent professor in a conference for a few. The prejudices, ignorance or "respectability" that see public morality too "sensitive" to the reality of events or daily life - Afghan, Iraqi, Libyan ... - should not be considered "enemy": they are the result of misinformation . It is therefore not our goal to celebrate Italians as "best", it is our hope that they will one day be "the same" to the rest of the world.

We are an extraordinary country made up of people with a huge heart. We just have to decide to throw it beyond the obstacle of hypocrisy and the tide of nonsense told about the military world for too many decades.

Despite this type of conduct compromises many of the economic support that would be needed to multiply the results and - perhaps - pay those who work for years on this project, we will not stop.

As claimed by a great poet at the end of the millennium: "sometimes the winner is simply a dreamer who has never given up".

Continue to follow us, to report, to comment civilly, to share.

Andrea Cucco

(photo: Giorgio Bianchi)