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Gaia Edwards

Political researcher and Voltaire Network editorial assistant, based partly in Buenos Aires (Argentina).

4 articles

9/11, nine years later

Kurt Sonnenfeld: A witness for persecution

by Gaia Edwards

Buenos Aires (Argentina) | 10 September 2010

Kurt Sonnenfeld’s case is outstanding for at least two reasons. He is in possession of official documentation that contradicts the U.S. Government’s account of the 9/11 events. He is a high-profile U.S. citizen forced to seek refugee status because of his government’s dogged persecution. Any (...)

Kurt Sonnenfeld: an inconvenient 9/11 witness

by Gaia Edwards

Buenos Aires (Argentina) | 22 June 2009

Kurt Sonnenfeld’s statement at the presentation of his book El Perseguido (Persecuted) on May 8, 2009, at the 35th Annual Buenos Aires Book Fair in Argentina, where he lives in exile since 2003. Therein, Sonnenfeld tells the history of his persecution at the hands of U.S. authorities over the (...)

Kurt Sonnenfeld : Exclusive interview

9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public

by Gaia Edwards

Buenos Aires (Argentina) | 22 June 2009

As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent an entire month filming: "What I saw at certain moments and in certain places ... is very disturbing!" He never handed his 29 tapes over to the authorities and (...)

Argentina: 33rd Anniversary Of Military Coup

by Gaia Edwards

25 March 2009

Mothers of "desaparecidos" (missing)
March 24, 2009 marked the 33rd anniversary of the military coup which will be remembered as one of the darkest days in Argentina’s history.
On that day, a military junta overthrew a democratically elected government. Over the next 8 years, up to 30,000 (...)