How nations convinced their young to go to their slaughter, and continue the global heating apocalypse

Journalists are much more important than politicians. Which is why politicians are deathly afraid of out of control journalists and are known to devise all possible means to punish or silence them. Without journalists we are living in the dark. Journalists are the remote eyes and ears of society. They are our sources of real information and real gossip. Their pay and conditions are poor. Their access to outlets for publication can be limited, and risks of reprisals are high.

Mountains of shell cases on the roadside near the front lines, the contents of which had been fired into the German lines.

Without politicians we can usually manage our own lives well enough, if not better. Politicians get to be so bad, we are forced to create more politicans to oppose them. This increases the problems. Politicians are centralized power, status and corruption attractors. They are overpaid, and take inducements on the side, on top of their public salary. Politicians are sources of national make-believe creativity that is mostly used for the denial of reality. They are sources of slander and controlled leaks, particularly when creating incitements for national wars. They seek control through public emotions on important issues.

Researching crucial events his own nations history, Ugo Bardi documents that state propaganda is an overused and effective tool to push emotions over reason…