Giulietto Chiesa

[citation needed] In 1991, he was again appointed Moscow correspondent for La Stampa, a newspaper based in Turin, and as such he remained in Russia until the end of 2000.

In the same period, he wrote for Il manifesto and other Italian newspapers and magazines contributing columns to La Voce delle voci and Missioni della consolata.

From Megachip other cultural projects sprang, such as a programme of Education to the media, the movie Zero: an Investigation into 9/11[6] and the quarterly magazine Cometa (Comunicazione-Etica-Ambiente Communications-Ethics–Environment).

In this context, Giulietto Chiesa was involved in the foundation of the World Political Forum, based in Turin and chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev.

[7] In 2010, Gorbachev carried on his activities about international research, founding in Luxemburg the New Policy Forum, of whose Advisory Board Giulietto Chiesa was a member.

Returning to Italy after his period as a correspondent in Moscow for La Stampa, he wrote other books as well as dozens of essays gathered in collections co-authored by him and others.

In Moscow - in 2003 as well – was launched Beskonechnaja Voina, a collection of essays which includes parts from Afghanistan Year Zero, The Infinite War and Superclan.

The essay Invece di questa sinistra (Instead of This Left) was also published, which includes the political manifesto of Mr Chiesa for the European election campaign of 2004.

[9] In Italy he created the group Cantiere per il Bene Comune (Construction of the Common Good) together with Achille Occhetto, Paolo Sylos Labini, Elio Veltri, Antonello Falomi and Diego Novelli.

In October 2004 I peggiori crimini del comunismo (The Worst Crimes of Communism) was published, co-written by Chiesa and the cartoonist Vauro, a biting satire which reveals the leftist past of some of the closest associates of the current Prime Minister of the time, Silvio Berlusconi.

In 2005, a book of interviews was issued, edited by Massimo Panarari, entitled Cronache Marxziane (Marxian Chronicles), translated a year later into Russian with the title Vostok-Zapad:Voinà Imperii.

The contributions of Chiesa to this collection are the Introduction and a long essay on geopolitics called Europa, perché Marte ha sconfitto Venere (Europe: Why Mars Defeated Venus).

It was created by a group - promoted by Giulietto Chiesa - led by Paolo Jormi Bianchi and was directed by Franco Fracassi and Francesco Trento.

In an interview with Press TV, Chiesa stated that the attacks involved a calculated conspiracy implicating US, Israeli, Pakistani and Saudi secret services.

He added "I think Europe is partly responsible for this war, by unconditionally supporting Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili and his claims on South Ossetia and Abkhazia".

Mikheil Saakashvili was portrayed as the unfortunate victim of Big Bad Putin and very often images of Tskhinvali razed by bombs were not shown.

[10] During the last months of 2008, Chiesa, together with a large group of journalists, writers and intellectuals linked to Megachip, created the experimental project Pandora TV, a multi-platform television channel funded by its own viewers (www.pandoratv.it).

The volume begins with a large essay focused on new evidence claiming to debunk the "official version" (commonly accepted history) on at least seven points and which were no longer mere questions and clues but instead very detailed indictments.

The volume Instead of Catastrophe: Why it is by Now Necessary to Develop an Alternative (2012) is essentially Giulietto Chiesa's political manifesto, a summary of his ideas and of his view on the world crisis.

Also in 2015, a new volume was published, called È arrivata la bufera (The Storm has come) which begins with a preface devoted to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack against the staff members of the satirical magazine, entitled I misteri di Parigi (The Mysteries of Paris).

Chiesa during a rally in 2007
Chiesa in 2013