Il Punto di Vista: An Independent Voice for the Overlooked

Il Punto di Vista is an independent, open and non-profit space for geopolitics, culture and critical analysis, grounded in human rights, nonviolence, facts and responsibility.

This project was born from a simple conviction: the people who are most affected by power are often the least heard in public debate. They are spoken about, categorized, judged and sometimes exploited, but too rarely listened to. Il Punto di Vista exists to challenge that pattern and to create a space where information and in-depth analysis are not a luxury, but a right.

This is an open, accessible and humane space. It welcomes participation from all those who recognize tolerance and nonviolence as essential ways of being in the world. It rejects hatred, racism and every form of discrimination. Everyone is welcome, regardless of race, religion, sex or sexual orientation. The principles that guide this project are those of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

At the center of this work are, above all, the marginalized, the forgotten, the oppressed and the poor, those who too often become social outcasts even when nobody says it openly, and perhaps only thinks it in silence, with that form of hypocrisy that can weigh more heavily than an insult.

The name Il Punto di Vista reflects another essential principle: every person looks at the world from a different angle, and that difference is not a weakness but a source of richness. Listening to other people’s perspectives is the first step toward understanding reality more fully and toward building a more civil public conversation. But that does not mean that every opinion is automatically valid. An opinion may be built on false premises or incoherent reasoning. Tolerance does not require surrendering critical thought. It requires respecting people even when we disagree with them, and confronting one another with facts, arguments and responsibility, without violence.

Editorially, Il Punto di Vista is devoted to geopolitics and international current affairs, to history as a tool for understanding the present, to culture in both critical and narrative form, to cinema and the arts, and, whenever necessary, to environment and science. The goal is to offer readers accurate information and analysis that do not disappear as soon as the news cycle moves on: ideas that endure, that help readers understand rather than simply react, and that retain value beyond the noise of the day.

This same editorial approach can be seen in pieces such as Dai confini iraniani a Kobane: i curdi sotto la stessa morsa. Informazione sotto stress: la censura non sempre porta la divisa and Intelligenza artificiale e carta stampata: l’IA come alibi dei padroni. Different topics, same method: understand first, simplify without distorting, and keep power under scrutiny.

In an age when information can be manipulated, distorted or weaponized, Il Punto di Vista is committed to verifying sources, clearly distinguishing facts from opinions, avoiding sensationalism and unverified claims, and maintaining transparency and responsibility. That is not a stylistic preference; it is the minimum requirement for journalism that wants to remain useful. Public debate becomes poorer whenever outrage replaces evidence, or when speed replaces care. A meaningful point of reference for this commitment is Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its defense of the freedom both to inform and to be informed.

This project is also participatory by design. Readers are not treated as passive consumers but as potential interlocutors and contributors. Comments, disagreement and constructive exchange are part of the space we want to build. The aim is that those who read today may feel free, tomorrow, to write and contribute as well. My role, as the person responsible for safeguarding this space, is precisely that: to protect it, to keep it faithful to the principles of tolerance and nonviolence, and to take care of its technical side — visibility, clarity and optimization — without distorting its content.

There is another point worth stating clearly: the cost was zero. No funding, no institutional backing, no advertising machine. And yet this site was built with the ambition to be serious, readable and carefully crafted. That is why Il Punto di Vista is independent, open and non-profit. It promotes books, films, performances and art events in the name of culture and, above all, of peace among peoples.

By open source we refer to the meaning defined by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). But openness here is not only technical. It is also intellectual and civic: a refusal to turn journalism into sectarian performance, and a commitment to keeping analysis connected to human dignity.

This is, in the end, what Il Punto di Vista wants to be: an independent voice for the overlooked, a place where journalism does not flatter power, where culture is not decoration, and where critical thought remains tied to human beings rather than abstractions.

If this space is to matter, it will matter because it remains useful to those who read it — and perhaps, one day, also to those who decide to write in it.

Thank you for reading.

Read the Italian version of this manifesto.