Non nel mio Nome by Michele Santoro

 Non nel Mio Nome

by Michele Santoro is a pamphlet that you'll read in a few hours published by Marsilio. In this little book the lucid analysis of the beloved journalist and ideator of many successful political talk shows these past decades and years. Why did he decide to write a book like this one? 

Because of the Ukraine war with its own contradictions. 

Son of an anarchic and of a communist, Santoro has always been a thinker of a reality recently more complicated than not the one that we have known in the past.

What kind of democracy is this one? A democracy paralyzed, in the hands of that "propaganda of regime" without any kind of sensibility for minorities or people in difficulty. There is to add that this war is adding new discrepancies and new poverty in always more large segments of our society. This one is a world where a bunch of people have in their hands most of the richness of the Planet. The rest of the population is not heard, live in passivity a condition where, also when they would want to try to say something, no one would hear.

War is the worsest answer to a problem adds, Santoro. There is a brief reconstruction of the Russian years after the end of the Communism; the errors of Boris Yeltsin, the arrival of Putin, lived like an unknown man, but that, with the time has been in grade to re-put things in order, followed by people. People in particular youngest ones, have experienced the freedom created. My russian friends travelled in the entire world. Not just Meloni and Salvini fell fascinate by him but also Berlusconi writes, Santoro. Berlusconi would have done the impossible for becoming the italian Putin writes ironically, Santoro.

Santoro is tired of this policy where politicians are not anymore in grade to resolve the problems of people, asking so to economists to do that, and, in these cases creating a lot of messes: yes, because when you call an economist, the economist will resolve the problems maybe of Italy but not the ones of people, because who work with money can't see people as persons with problems. We experienced Monti, and recently Draghi. Both of them delusional experiences.

Santoro appreciated the Five Star Movement, (I really am a fan! I wouldn't never have said it four years ago!) becoming recently skeptical because no one would have believed that someone like Beppe Grillo one day would have told to his movement that they would have joined a government with Draghi, close to Mario Monti for mentality. That's why some big esponents decided to go away from the Movement: an unacceptable position the one of Beppe Grillo.

A movement the one of Grillo, who intrigued till the very first moment Santoro, who gave a lot of space to them and their ideas.

There is a reconstructon of the final days of the government Draghi with the scission of Luigi Di Maio at first, and then the end of the government Draghi. Draghi wanted in fact to become President of the Republic, and Santoro tells that later sounded pretty upset because they didn't keep him in consideration...Substantially Draghi decided to leave. 

The past: I remember the years, and moments when Indro Montanelli in the tv program of Santoro launched this provocation: "Please give me back my newsmagazine, Silvio!"  Yes: Indro Montanelli worked for Silvio Berlusconi, he was the editor and ideator of Il Giornale, and things were going on well; just, Berlusconi changed character completely once in policy. He pretended that the newsmagazine of Indro had to follow him blindly: Montanelli said no (great, Indro!) and Berlusconi removed him. Freedom has always a great price, in a way or in anoher.

There is an explanation of the war in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attack, that would have brought a lot of departures and after all they found Bin Laden in Pakistan.

Gino Strada, founder of Emergency told to Santoro that a war is the saddest existential condition of the man: he said that with the cost of an F-35 is possible to create 1000 places in intensive care. 

Realistically when a country says that intends to go in another country for humanitarian missions, you know that a war is in act. Putin, adds Santoro, called it a special operation: but the de fact is that also our countries sometimes don't tend to call, because maybe not elegant, a war, with its name. 

War is always a lies writes Santoro and who wants to condamn Putin for war crimes should also remember Bush, Blair for what done in Iraq, remarks the journalist.

Journalism with the time became always more close to the ideas of the government, so we receive writes Santoro communication but not anymore information.

When the Ukrainian war started and the first timid voices of dissent became clear, these people were classified like filo-Putin writes Santoro: that meant at first being a sort of enemy of Italy, of the Ukrainian crusade started by Europe, UK and USA. 

It was a great mediatic strumentalization: a newsmagazine published lists of people tendentially filo-Putin, but this one is an abnormality, and a sad, sad and dangerous fact, writes Santoro, because in a democracy I must tell my opinion with freedom. It can be also pretty different from the one expressed by the biggest part of the population but a lack of information would also create a hole that in a democracy can't be permitted. Sharing informations is important for personal growth.

Please, read this book. To me, you will find more than a good vibe and great ideas for changing in better Italy and the world. A world warless, first of all it is what all we want so badly.

I thank Marsilio for the physical copy of the book.

Anna Maria Polidori