In Slovenia, No Voice for Peace Allowed - with Uroš Lipušček

Consortium News editor-in-chief Joe Lauria talks to Uroš Lipušcek, Slovenian TV correspondent and “peace candidate“ in the European Parliamentary elections on Sunday, June 9. At stake was the most essential issue of all: avoiding a major European war that could escalate to unimaginable consequences, as well as ending the genocide in Gaza. These issues have been fueling 3rd Party and Independent candidates throughout the West, posing a threat to the Establishment. There remain, however, formidable obstacles to challenging major party consensus especially on the issue of peace and war. Despite the growth of social and independent media, which has sparked efforts by governments to suppress anti-war voices often in league with the private, so-called anti-disinformation industry, the mainstream media still has tremendous clout in shaping an electorate’s knowledge and even its voting behavior. Such seems to have been the case here in the European elections in Slovenia. On e