The daily Italian press is divided about data on the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) world military expenditure, in fact it gives diametrically opposite interpretations in the usual course of the communication, which is slave of the regime ideology, only underlying what is interesting for it and coming to the most convenient conclusions. On one side, in fact, the newspaper ‘Libero Quotidiano’ alarmed points out to the arms race of Arabs, China and Russia and complaints that Europe “stands by and watches”given that military budget in Western countries registered a decline of 0,5%. On the other hand ‘Il Manifesto’ sarcastically sings the praises of the goal of Italy, now in the top 10 military spenders with € 26 billion on an annual basis with public money spent in armed forces, weapons and military missions abroad.
“Instead of pondering on the data of world military expenditure according to its own point of view, what about saying that the dialogue is our best strength to contribute to peace? Why don’t we wonder how the language of nonviolence, Esperanto, can help to establish a dialogue to peace?”.
These are the questions of the leader of Esperanto Radical Association Giorgio Pagano on the daily Italian press about Sipri report.
“Esperanto can be that quid super partes simbolo and, at the same time, vehicle of equality and mutual respect among all peoples, which are essential conditions to the strength and duraton of peace. We must point on it!”, ends Pagano.