Giulietto Chiesa
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Giulietto Chiesa is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
) is an Italian
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journalist
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and politician
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, and was a Member of the European Parliament
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for North-West with the Independent - Di Pietro-Occhetto List Civil Society
Italy of Values
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. Originally he represented Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
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, since 2006 - Party of European Socialists
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. Chiesa sat on the European Parliament
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's Committee on International Trade
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.
Chiesa held a number of important positions in the Italian Communist Party
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The Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...
before it was dissolved in 1991.
He was a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education
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and a member of the Delegation to the EU
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-Russia
Russia
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Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
In the 2009 European Parliament elections
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, Chiesa was a candidate on the ForHRUL list in Latvia
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.
Activities
Giulietto Chiesa speaks Russian well and has written a couple of books in co-authorship with Roy MedvedevRoy Medvedev
Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev |Georgia]]) is a Russian historian renowned as the author of the dissident history of Stalinism, Let History Judge , first published in English in 1972...
. In 1988, their book «The USSR that changed» (in Italian: L’URSS che cambia) was published. In 1990, they published another book, written in the format of discussions: «The Revolution of Gorbachev» (ital. La rivoluzione di Gorbaciov), initially published in the US («Time of Change», Pantheon Books, 1990), later also in Japan.
Chiesa has recently become a spokesman in Europe for 9/11 Truth Movement
9/11 Truth Movement
9/11 Truth movement is a collective name for loosely affiliated organizations and individuals who question the accepted account of the September 11, 2001, attacks....
. In September 2008, Chiesa, along with Thierry Meyssan
Thierry Meyssan
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and Gen. Leonid Ivashov
Leonid Ivashov
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participated in a debate on Russian Television about the events of 11 September 2001.
He has produced the documentary film Zero (which was broadcast on Russian Television in September 2008), as well as the collection of essays by the same name which were published in Italy in the late summer of 2007 which suggests that the United States Government was directly involved in planning and executing the attacks. In an interview with PressTV, Chiesa stated that the attacks involved a calculated conspiracy involving US, Pakistani and Saudi secret services. The film features novelist Gore Vidal
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, playwright Dario Fo
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, and retired American Philosophy professor David Ray Griffin
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. Regarding who was responsible for the attacks, Chiesa stated "Who knows what happened? Ninety-nine percent of the documents related to the issue have been kept confidential." Chiesa also stated that "Some of the individuals appearing in the film are former FBI and CIA agents, people who have in a sense taken a very big risk in speaking out. I am very grateful to them because they have done a big job. The film would not have been possible without them." Chiesa stated that ZERO had been seen in France and Belgium at individual screenings, and by more than 20,000 people in Italy.
The hypothesis proposed in the movie have been analyzed by several debunking groups, both Italian and international, in particular by the Italian group “Undicisettembre”, who highlighted the several inaccuracies and contradictions present in the movie.
In September 2008, Chiesa called for an international tribunal to probe events of 11 September 2001 and stated that "Our task is to inform millions of people of the true situation." Regarding the showing of Zero in a primetime television slot in Russia, Chiesa stated "that means that some 30 million Russian citizens will learn the truth about what happened, which is a very big result for me."
Later, Chiesa has taken part at founding "Microchip" association.
2008 Russian-Georgian Conflict
Regarding 2008 conflict between RussiaRussia
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and Georgia, Chiesa stated that "Russia did precisely what had to be done." He also stated that "I think Europe is partly responsible for this war: by unconditionally supporting Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili and his claims in South Ossetia and Abkhazia." Regarding media coverage of the war, Chiesa stated that "the information given by the media is a shame for the west. Western news channels broadcasted images and titles that were politically biased. Some claimed Russia wanted to conquer Georgia, although no evidence whatsoever backs up that argument. Mikheil Saakashvili
Mikheil Saakashvili
Mikheil Saakashvili is a Georgian politician, the third and current President of Georgia and leader of the United National Movement Party.Involved in the national politics since 1995, Saakashvili became president on 25 January 2004 after President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned in a November 2003...
was portrayed as the unfortunate victim of Big Bad Putin, and very often, images of Tskhinvali razed by bombs were not shown. It is the worst coverage I have seen since the war in Iraq."
Education
- 1960: Secondary schoolSecondary schoolSecondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
-leaving certificate in classicalClassicsClassics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...
subjects - 1989–1990: Fellow of Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian StudiesKennan Institute for Advanced Russian StudiesThe Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars was founded in 1974 to the carry out studies of the Soviet Union , subsequently of post-Soviet Russia and other post-Soviet states....
, Washington. Chiesa is fluent in Russian.
Career
- 1967–1968: National Vice-Chairman of the UGI - Union goliardica Italian
- 1968–1970: Member of the National Secretariat of the Italian Communist Youth FederationItalian Communist Youth FederationThe Italian Communist Youth Federation was the youth wing of the Partito Comunista Italiano , and the direct heir of the Federazione Giovanile Comunista d'Italia of the PCd'I.-History:...
- 1971–1979: Member of the secretariat of the PCI - Federation of Genoa
- 1975–1979: PCIItalian Communist PartyThe Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...
group leader on the Provincial Council of Genoa - Since 1981: Professional journalist
- 1989–1990: Fellow of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian StudiesKennan Institute for Advanced Russian StudiesThe Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars was founded in 1974 to the carry out studies of the Soviet Union , subsequently of post-Soviet Russia and other post-Soviet states....
- 1990: Moscow correspondent, first of all, for L'UnitàL'Unitàl'Unità is an Italian left-wing newspaper, originally founded as official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party.-History:L'Unità was founded by Antonio Gramsci on 12 February 1924, as the newspaper of workers and peasants, the official newspaper of Italian Communist Party : it was printed in...
(1980) then for La StampaLa StampaLa Stampa is one of the best-known, most influential and most widely sold Italian daily newspapers. Published in Turin, it is distributed in Italy and other European nations. The current owner is the Fiat Group.-History:...
External links
- Personal Website of Giulietto Chiesa
- Giulietto Chiesa: The West Already Was, Voltaire NetworkVoltaire NetworkThe Réseau Voltaire is an international non-profit organisation, based in Paris. It stated aim is the promotion of freedom and secularism , that is separation of church and state, faith and politics...
, 1 February 2005. - Information on Chiesa's books in English