La prima vittima

Stefania Maurizi's book Secret Power deals systematically with "the story of a journalist" - Julian Assange - "imprisoned and treated with unbearable cruelty for revealing war crimes; of the determination of British and American politicians to destroy him; and of the media's quiet acquiescence in this monstrous injustice." Maledetti pacfisti by Nico Piro exposes the visible side of such a secret power, namely the media strategies to turn an endless war into a normal state of affairs that the public can accept and forget. In the first definitive article of Perpetual Peace, Kant wrote that the constitution of every state should be republican so that war can be deliberated by the parliamentary representatives of those who are harmed by war. How much is surviving of Kant's republic in the current post-democracies? Who has the last word on peace and war? On the basis of what can we justify the starting and prosecution of wars - humanitarian, democracy-exporting, for the defense of "our values" or of "our" power - when the risk of perpetual peace in its gloomiest sense is becoming more than a theoretical possibility?