Manlio Dinucci,
Spokesman for the Comitato No Guerra No Nato,
Among the laureats
of the National and International Journalism Competition, organised by the Club de Periodistas de México (Mexican
Journalists Club), this year we welcome Manlio Dinucci, the spokesman of the
Comitato No Guerra No NATO (No War, No NATO Committee, NWNNC).
The Club de Periodistas de Mexico, A.C., founded in the 1950's, has a long
history of struggle for freedom of expression, for an independent and truthful
journalism which defies the major powers, whether overt or occult, even at the
risk of losing lives.
Since the year
2000, approximately
13 journalists have been assassinated in Mexico, six of whom died in the first six months of 2019. The Club
publishes a nationally broadcast bi-monthly magazine, Voces del
Periodista, as well as a televised rubric.
The laureats of the Competition - chosen
by an independent jury – were presented at the prize-giving ceremony in Mexico,
by Celeste Sáenz de Miera, General Secretary of the Club.
The most
significant prize was awarded to Julian Assange, whose name has become the
« international symbol of the new journalism of’investigation and
denunciation, of the struggle against the manipulation of information and the
hiding of true interests behind media presentations. » The Assange
Prize was accepted by Pedro Miguel,
director of Wikileaks in Mexico.
Manlio Dinucci –
whose articles are often published in Spanish by the magazine of the Club de
Periodistas de Mexico – was awarded the International Prize for Geo-strategic
Analysis, because « he puts his knowledge as a researcher and his
capacities of analysis in the service of international pacifism, in a period of
great danger for the integrity of many nations, and because his is a that
defends reason and justice ».
In her
presentation, the Club secretary, Celeste Saenz de Miera, demonstrated the
importance of the Declaration
of Florence, published
on 7 April at the end of the International Conference by the NWNNC and by Global Research, the Canadian
Centre for Research on Globalisation directed by Professor Michel Chossudovsky.
A brief note
about the author:
Geographer and geopolitical
scientist. His latest books are Laboratorio di geografia,
Zanichelli 2014 ; Diario di viaggio,
Zanichelli 2017 ; L’arte della guerra /
Annali della strategia Usa/Nato 1990-2016,
Zambon 2016, Guerra Nucleare. Il Giorno
Prima 2017; Diario di guerra Asterios Editores 2018, Premio internazionale per
l'analisi geostrategica assegnato il 7 giugno 2019 dal Club dei giornalisti del
Messico, A.C.
Full speech of thanks to the Mexican Journalists Club, A.C.
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is a great honour for me to
receive the International Prize for Journalism from the prestigious Journalists
Club of Mexico.
Even though we work in different contexts, I think that we are all facing the
same fundamental question – what is the rôle of journalists today? The answer
is more complex than it might seem.
An unprecedented technological
development has evolved in the space of one generation, a system of information
and communication which covers the whole world – the same news and images
arrive simultaneously in every country, entering into every house which is
connected to the Internet and TV networks.
The speed at which these
transformations occurred, and are still occurring, may however lead us to
overlook the characteristics of the phenomenon – global information and
communication in fact have their own « frontiers ».
The gap between these information and
communication technologies (the digital divide) is much greater.
The motor centres of the global system of information and communication are
mostly concentrated in specific countries which, according to conventional
categories, are considered « the most developed ». These are the
countries where the headquarters of the colossal multimedia groups are situated
– groups which have the capacity to influence the opinions and tastes of people
on a planetary scale.
The decisive element is not the technology, but the use to which it is put.
For example, the capacity of
television to distribute images of a particular event to any country - while it
can, on the one hand, be used to expand the horizons of understanding of its TV
audience, it can also be used to limit it by making the spectators believe that
only what we see is real, and what we do not see does not exist.
The capacity of the Internet to
facilitate contact between people from all over the world may, on the one hand,
serve the development of multiculturalism, but on the other, could serve the
hegemony of one specific language or culture over others. The same is true of
the social networks, extended to the planetary level.
In general, the global system
of information and communication can serve mutual understanding by contributing
to peaceful relations, but it can also facilitate the preparation of public
opinion for war, for example, by the use of media campaigns which demonise
certain countries and governments.
In this context, the rôle of
journalists is fundamental. They must not be reduced to simple distributors of
pre-fabricated information from the centres of media power. They must be the
indefatigable seekers of truth, they must have the courage to say what others
dare not. This is an often difficult and dangerous duty, today more important
than ever for the essential choices on which the future of humanity depends.
This is the duty you are pursuing, esteemed friends from the Jounalists Club of
Mexico, and so I appreciate even more the prize which you have awarded me. It
is the symbol of our common engagement on the front line of the
struggle ».
A more
complete note about the author:
Manlio Dinucci, journalist and essayist, lived and worked in Beijing
in the 1960s, contributing to the publication of the first Chinese-language
magazine in Italian and to the dissemination of Letters from China by the American journalist Anna Louise Strong.
Based on this experience he published, with Mazzotta Editore, La lotta di Classe in Cina/1949-1974 (1975) and Economia e organizzazione del lavoro in Cina (1976).
In the 1980s, he
directed the magazine Lotta per la pace (born of the “Appeal against the installation of nuclear
missiles in Italy”, launched in 1979 by Ludovico Geymonat et al.) and was
Executive Director for Italy of the International Physicians for the Prevention
of Nuclear War, winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
Co-author, with
Tonino Bello et al., of FiancoSud/Puglia, Mezzogiorno, Terzo Mondo: rapportosui processi di militarizzazione (Piero Nanni, 1989).
Co-author, such as
the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Daniel Bovet, of Desert Storm/The Northern Arms, the drama of the South, with the presentation of Ernesto Balducci (Edizione
Cultura della Pace, 1991). With the same publishing house published Hyperwar. Dalla "iperguerra" of the Gulf alla Conferenza sul Medio Oriente (1991) and La strategia dell'impero/Dalle direttive del Pentagono al Nuovo Modello di Difesa (1992), written with U. Allegretti and D. Gallo and
presented by R. La Valle.
Author of L'oro e la Spada/Imperi economici e guerre di conquista nell'era del capitale globale(Comutato Golfo, 1993).
Author of Il potere nucleare/Storia di una follia da Hiroshima al 2015 (Fazi Editore, 2003).
Co-author, with A.
Burgio and V. Giacché, of Escalation/Anatomy of the Infinite War (DeriveApprodi, 2005).
Author of
L'Arte della Guerra (Zambon Editore, 2015). and Diario di guerra - Escalation verso la catastrofe (2016 - 2018)
Collaborating
at il manifesto, with the weekly rubric "L'Arte della Guerra", and with Pandora
TV , directed by Giulietto Chiesa. He is also the author
of school texts on human geography.
Author of the documentation presented at the
International Conference on the 70th Anniversary of NATO – I 70 ANNI DELLA NATO: DI GUERRA IN GUERRA -- Firenze, April 7, 2019 and together with
Prof. Chossudovsky wrote and signed the Declaration of Florence.
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