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Kurt Sonnenfeld : Exclusive interview
9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public

  | Buenos Aires (Argentina) | 22 June 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent one month shooting 29 tapes of film: "What I saw at certain moments and in certain places ... is very disturbing!" He never handed them over to the authorities and has been persecuted ever since. Kurt Sonnenfeld lives in exile in Argentina, where he wrote "El Perseguido" (the persecuted). His recently-published book tells the story of his unending nightmare and drives another nail into the coffin of the government’s account of the 9/11 events. Below is an exclusive interview by The Voltaire Network.

41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11

 By Alan Miller | 19 May 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Following in the footsteps of well over 1,000 scientists and other professional groups who have already gone on record questioning the official theory, more than 40 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency veterans have come forward to challenge the Government’s rendition of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Their behind-the-scenes knowledge and experience of sensitive and classified issues places them in a uniquely authoritative position. In this sense, their critical stance is all the more damning for the government. Conspicuously absent from the landscape are the mainstream media professionals, as they continue to provide cover for the government’s totally bankrupt theory and fail to report on landmark developments such as this.

A Plan to Expand American Supremacy
The "Clash of Civilizations"

 By Thierry Meyssan | Paris (France) | 4 June 2004 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The Islamic complot and clash of civilizations theory has been progressively devised since 1990 in order to provide the military industrial complex with a spare ideology after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Bernard Lewis, a British Middle East specialist, Samuel Huntington, an American strategist, and Laurent Murawiec, a French consultant, were the main creators of this theory which justifies, not always in a logical way, the US crusade for oil.

Project Censored 2008: Top 25 Censored Stories of last year
No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11

 By Ed Haas  | 14 March 2008 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Osama bin Laden’s role in the events of September 11, 2001 is not mentioned on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” poster. On June 5, 2006, author Ed Haas contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters to ask why, while claiming that bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 1998 bombings of US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, the poster does not indicate that he is wanted in connection with the events of 9/11.

Who Benefits from Crime?
The Hidden Financial Ties between the Bush and the Bin Laden Families.

 By Thierry Meyssan | Paris (France) | 16 October 2001 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The perpetrators of September 11, 2001 attacks and the people that knew about these terrorist acts could prevent, anticipate and know what their economic effects would be. Consequently, they were able to make some speculative schemes in the stock market on the airlines that owned the hijacked airplanes, on the societies that had its headquarters in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and their respective insurances. They could also anticipate a possible general fall on the shares quoted on the stock market. In order to do all this, they just had to speculate for a fall by buying not only the shares of these companies but the «puts», that is, the «put option». The identification of these «knowers» involved in this financial crime represented not only a key piece in a stock market fraud but, and above all, a mean to directly or indirectly establish the identity of the perpetrators of the September 11 (...)

Soft and Undercover Coups d’État
The Albert Einstein Institution: non-violence according to the CIA

 By Thierry Meyssan | 4 January 2005 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Non violence as a political action technique can be used for anything. During the 1980s, NATO drew its attention on its possible use to organize the Resistance in Europe after the invasion of the Red Army. It’s been 15 years since CIA began using it to overthrow inflexible governments without provoking international outrage, and its ideological façade is philosopher Gene Sharp’s Albert Einstein Institution. Voltaire Network reveals its amazing activity, from Lithuania to Serbia, Venezuela and Ukraine.

The US Networks of Interference and Espionage. Part II
Freedom House: when “freedom” is only a pretext

  | 7 September 2004 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Freedom House, a propaganda machine created by Roosevelt to prepare the US public opinion for war, returned to the attack to stigmatize the Soviet field during the Cold War. At that time, it used western intellectuals, including French. Today, it organizes international media campaigns for religious freedom in China and for peace in Chechnya. Freedom House is currently presided over by James Woosley, former CIA Director.

Good taste, American style
Ford Foundation, a philanthropic facade for the CIA

  | 5 April 2004 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Between 1947 and 1966 the Ford Foundation played a key role in the network of US interference in Europe through the subvention of magazines, scientific programs and non-communist left-wing organizations. The largest philanthropic organization in the world was in fact providing a respectful facade for CIA financial and contact operations. This role was even more possible by the fact that the same persons designed and directed both organizations. Below you will find the first part of our research on the cultural aspects of the Atlantic interventionism.

New world order
Daniel Pipes, the expert of hate

 | Paris (France) | 2 March 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Omnipresent expert in television studios and regular commentator of American mainstream newspapers, Daniel Pipes has become the world theorist of the Islamphobia. The son of Richard Pipes, the Sovietologist that resumed the arms race during the Ford Administration, and spiritual son of Robert Strausz-Hupé, the visionary of the new world order, Daniel Pipes, directs a lot of strategic institutes. He is the founder of currently common concepts such as «new anti-Semitism», «militants of Islam» and «conspiracy theories». An advocate of the annihilation of Palestinians, he has been appointed by George W. Bush director of the US Institute of Peace.

"New" official video
The Pentagon magic plane, part 2

 By Pierre-Henri Bunel | Paris (France) | 19 May 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale | At the request of the neo-conservative association Judicial Watch, the US Department of Defence released the full version of the September 11th, 2001 attacks on Pentagon. The neo-conservative press is delighted at this broadcasting, which supposedly contradicts conclusively our analyses. In fact, the video does not contain any additional element in comparison with the images already broadcast in 2002, and where it is still impossible to see a Boeing 757-200. This sequence confirms, on the contrary, the analysis of the former artillery officer Pierre - Henri Bunel published by Thierry Meyssan in his book Pentagate, and that we reprint here today.

The Neoconservative Agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet – The New Pearl Harbor

 By Michael Salla | 19 November 2007 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The U.S. plans for an attack on Iran envision to sacrifice the Fifth Fleet in order to justify a nuclear retaliation. This is not a hypothetical scenario, but a real option being discussed within the U.S. Joint Chief of Staff cabinet. According to our sources, admiral William Fallon made clear that if such an order was given, he would refuse to follow it and would hand in his resignation along with the entire Centcom headquarter’s. So far only the Navy and Army’s superior officers’ resistance has prevented the neoconservatives and the Air Force to launch the operations.

George Bush will play all he’s got
The resignation of Admiral Fallon will provoke renewed fighting in Iraq

 By Thierry Meyssan | Beirut (Lebanon) | 15 March 2008 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Contrary to what has been written so far in the mainstream media, Admiral William Fallon was not removed because he was opposing President Bush on an attack against Iran. He resigned from his own initiative after the agreement he had negotiated and concluded with Tehran, Moscow and Peking was sabotaged by the White House. This decision by the Bush administration will provoke renewed fighting in Iraq and exposes gravely the GI’s to a new Resistance this time supported without restraints from the outside.

Reuters participates in a propaganda campaign against Iran

  | 23 November 2005 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


Building the clash of civilizations
The Protestant churches and the US game in the Arab world

 By Charles Saint-Prot | 23 November 2005 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Since 1947, many US military chiefs and political leaders, including Bush, have belonged to a secret evangelical group called “The Family” whose headquarters is located near the Pentagon in a property called The Cedars. This organization, after making an alliance with the Vatican in Latin America to fight the Liberation theology, today leads a campaign against Catholics and Muslims. The main US political figures also come from that organization which extends its influence with its missionaries around the world. Political scientist Charles Saint-Prot, who participated in the Axis for Peace conference in Brussels on November 17th and 18th, analyzes in the work that we present today the strategy of this evangelical group in the Arab world.

The Pentagon plans to control information

 By Ossama Lotfy | Paris (France) | 9 February 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


Iran: The threat of a nuclear war

 By General Leonid Ivashov | 6 April 2007 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Strongly convinced that a US nuclear strike on Iran is imminent, General Ivashov analysis the probable outcomes of a United-Stator-Irani war. He confirms, for example, that such a conflict will lead to a military one between Tel Aviv and Tehran which will immediately evolve into a religious one, between Islam and Judaism. He raises his doubts about the real reasons behind the US operation, and points out to the reader that Bush administartion and its allies have already started their psychological readying for the likelihood of utilizing tactical nuclear weapons against Iran. Yet, is it possible to avert the bombing ? One of the questions, among others, to which General Ivashov brings an answer in this article.

Terrorism
Simulation exercises that make attacks easier

  | 19 September 2005 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Just like military organizations, which carry out periodic exercises to check their equipment and organizational capacity for real combats, public civilian powers also hold their own attack-simulation exercises. By considering a hypothetical disaster, like that of a suicide airplane or the explosion of a bomb in the subway, crisis management groups are trained to coordinate relief actions and rapid responses. However, recent studies have shown that what should save lives has been used to make attacks easier. This is what happened in London on July 7, 2005 or in New York on September 11, 2001.

Thierry Meyssan’s Tribune in « El Mundo » (Spain), September 11, 2002
Neither Crusade, Nor Jihad, Let’s Unmask the Real Culprits!
By Thierry Meyssan | 11 September 2002 | Voltaire, édition internationale | By making up a new concept for “preventive justice”, President Bush understands having the universal right of bombing. Will the American people be able to hold their leaders accountable, to shed light over the attacks and to sanction the real culprits?

NED: National Endowment for Democracy
The networks of "democratic" interference

 By Thierry Meyssan | 22 January 2004 | Voltaire, édition internationale | In his 2004 State of the Union speech, President Bush announced his intentions to double the budget for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). This organization was created by Ronald Reagan to extend the CIA’s secret activities by providing financial support and controlling trade unions, associations and political parties. The NED boasts about having directed and manipulated the Polish trade union Solidarnosc, the Charter 77 and many other groups. Under the direction of the State Department and associated with the Republican and Democratic parties, with the board of trustees and with trade unions, the NED has found many individual and institutional "boosters" all over the world, including in France.

Letters to the editor
About your study on Noam Chomsky’s thought

 By James Abourezk | Sioux Falls (États-Unis) | 6 December 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The United States’ former senator, Jim Abourezk, reacts to Jeffrey Blankfort’s study on Noam Chomsky’s thought, which we published in episode few months ago. He confirms by his account the analysis according to which the Congress support for Israel does not serve the United States’ interests , but comes up to the pressures of the pro-Israeli official lobby.

The Stand-off on the Iranian Nuclear Issue– A Reappraisal Before the Final Countdown

 By General Vinod Saighal | New Dehli (India) | 15 December 2006 | Voltaire, édition internationale | For the Indian general Vinod Saighal, President Ahmadinejad’s provocations will not succeed in dissuading the United States to destroy Iran. The war is programmed in Washington, to conquer oil fields, to strengthen Bush presidency and to satisfy Israel at the same time. Nothing can stop it, and Teheran is wrong to believe in its friends’ protection, whether they are Muslims, Russians or Chineses. In such circumstances, the wisdom would be the discretion.

Remodeling Public Opinion
False reasons to intervene in Iran

By Thierry Meyssan | 12 February 2004 | Voltaire, édition internationale | After having invaded Iraq, the hawks redouble their pressure on Iran and Syria. The Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans is setting up Iranian opposition groups in exile around the son of the defeated Shah and is orchestrating an international propaganda campaign. Anticipating a probable opposition by Paris, its actively trying to shape French public opinion. It’s also bringing back the Peoples Mujahedeen and negotiating its rearmament, even when the State Department views them as terrorists.

Speech by James L. Jones at the 46th Munich Security Conference

By James L. Jones | Munich (Germanay) | 6 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


China-USA
The Dalai Lama and Obama: a meeting between two Nobel laureates in deceipt

 By Domenico Losurdo | 6 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The time when Obama spoke of a G2 relationship between the United States and China to rule the world is behind us. In just a matter of days, the Obama administration proliferated its provocations against China: arms sales to the separatist region of Taiwan, the announcement by the Director of National Intelligence of an imminent cyberwar against China, compounded by the announcement that the chief of Tibetan separatists will be received by the White House. In this article, Professor Domenico Losurdo takes a new look at the desire of the United States to dismantle China.

Washington anticipates a new 9/11 within six months

 5 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


China confirms sanctions against U.S. suppliers of arms to Taiwan

 3 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


DPRK urges U.S. to conclude peace treaty

3 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


U.S.-China Military Tensions Grow

 By Rick Rozoff | Chicago (USA) | 1 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Despite their gargantuan military budget and despite being the only country with troops and military bases astride all five continents, the United States continue desperately to look for imaginary threats to their national security so as to justify their repeated interventions and boost business for the industrial-military complex which can only thrive on perpetual war. In recently announcing an arms sales package to Taiwan, the United States leveled a direct strike at the heart of the most sensitive diplomatic issue between the two countries.

Remarks by the Barack Obama in State of the Union Address

 By Barack Obama | Washington D.C. (USA) | 27 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Speech on Internet Freedom

 By Hillary Clinton | 21 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


The US Navy has anchored one of its secret prisons in Haitian waters

 21 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


President Barack Obama’s speech on financial regulation

 By Barack Obama | Washington D.C. (USA) | 21 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


Executive Order Seeks to "Synchronize and Integrate" (Video)
Big Brother: Obama Calls for the Integration of State and Federal Military Forces

 By Tom Burghardt | San Francisco (USA) | 17 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Contrary to his election campaign promises, Obama has issued dozens of signing statements. He has issued another executive order, this time establishing a so-called “Council of Governors.” The order, signed on January 11, further diminishes the sovereignty of the states and builds on a framework for possible martial law. The executive order was completely ignored by the corporate media.

Black is Back!

 Washington D.C. (USA) | 16 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Nearly 42 years after Martin Luther King’s assassination, "Black is Back" announces the return of black activism to the political arena. In commemoration of MLK’s birthday on January 15, 1929, Voltaire Network is publishing the following statemtent which was made by the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC on November 5, 2009.

Bankruptcies up by 32% in the United States

 13 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


Michelle Obama’s costly voluntary work

 13 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


The waning of the "American Way of Life"

 12 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?

 By Paul Craig Roberts | Washington D.C. (USA) | 11 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | By stitching together a string of "terrorist" events, Paul Craig Roberts zooms in on a modus operandi of false-flag and cover up operations stretching back to the Cold War period and the NATO/CIA-sponsored Operation Gladio with tentacles across Western Europe, but most famously in Italy. The bombings, which were blamed on communists to discredit them politically, were also used to create a climate of fear prompting the population to turn to the state for greater security, in an all-but-too-familiar present-day scenario.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s remarks population and development

 By Hillary Clinton | Washington D.C. (USA) | 8 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


President Obama’s address on intelligence failures

 By Barack Obama | Washington D.C. (USA) | 7 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


Remarks by Hillary Clinton delivered to the Center for Global Development

 By Hillary Clinton | Washington D.C. (USA) | 6 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


U.S.-Venezuelan Relations: Imperialism and Revolution

 By James Petras | New York (United States) | 5 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | President Chavez’s election in 1998 marked a decline of US hegemony in Venezuela and throughout Latin America. In this study, James Petras reminds us that Washington’s chief interest in overthrowing Chavez was political, not economic, and revolved around his steadfast opposition to the Bush administration’s "War on Terror" doctrine. Washington feared that Chavez’s dissent might provide an alternative pole for the newly emerging ‘center-left’ regimes on the continent. Today, Petras reconceptualizes US-Venezuelan relations in light of declining US economic power and rising militarism.

The US and China: One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning

 By James Petras | New York (United States) | 3 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building, illustrating the great divide in the world today. Expanding on a series of articles recently published in the Financial Times, James Petras highlights the stark contrast between these two strategic visions, a woefully misguided one in the case of the US.

Obama, US Continue To Reap Trillions and Condemn Africa To Climate Catastrophe

 By Glen Ford | New York (United States) | 29 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | With humanity at risk and Africa facing “incineration,” the United States opted for “disaster capitalism” at the global climate conference, last week. “President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to Copenhagen to end any possibility of a global agreement on greenhouse gasses that the rich nations would be bound to respect", claims BAR Executive Director Glen Ford.

The number of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan in 2009 is double that of 2008

 29 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


Guantánamo, Illinois

 By Margaret Kimberley | New York (United States) | 27 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | President Barack Obama’s first year in office has many elements of déjà vu and feels much the same as a year of George Bush. Wars metastasize, bankers get richer and prisons migrate from Cuba to Illinois ... changing venues as policies remain in place.

Bended Knees: Zionist Power in American Politics

 By James Petras | New York (United States) | 22 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | This is probably the most well-rounded and complete article by James Petras on the configuration of Zionist power - at all levels of the US political system and society - that far outweighs its numerical strength. More than a lobby, the ZPC has acted over the past fifty years as an agent in the interest of a foreign military power. Its influence is deeply entrenched in many parts of the world, denoting a trend that Petras describes as the globalization of Zionist power. However, support may be faltering, as divisions among the US policy elite over Zionist control have emerged. But, despite internal dissent, Obama still takes his marching orders from Tel Aviv on all major issues promoted by the ZPC.

Remarks on the U.S. Human Rights Agenda for the 21st Century

 By Hillary Clinton | Washington D.C. (USA) | 14 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


Peace Nobel Prize 2009
Obama Doctrine: Eternal War For Imperfect Mankind

 By Rick Rozoff | Chicago (USA) | 11 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Do words still have a meaning? There is room for doubt after President Obama’s speech yesterday in Oslo. The man who is pursuing two wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan at the helm of the most powerful military complex in history, afforded himself the luxury of posing as a pacifist as he received the Nobel Peace prize. Making impudent use of references and religious rhetoric, he defended a fatalistic view of war and glossed over the crimes being committed in the Middle East under his command.

Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech

 By Barack Obama | Oslo (Norway) | 10 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


Surprising Results of CFR Survey
What the U.S. Elite Really Thinks About Israel

 By Jeffrey Blankfort | San Francisco (USA) | 10 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The survey of CFR members taken by the Pew Research Center has exposed a surprising breach between the views of the U.S. power elite and the public when it comes to international politics. The CFR members do not perceive Israel as an ally nor do they consider Iran as an enemy, whereas the public essentially adheres to the neo-conservatist and AIPAC mindset. Should one infer that the CFR is powerless or that the AIPAC has lost its grip?

Remarks by Barack Obama at West Point

 By Barack Obama | 1 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale |


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