Thierry Meyssan

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Thierry Meyssan is a French journalist, political activist and conspiracy theorist.

He is the author of investigations into the extreme right wing (particularly about the National Front Militias, which are the object of a parliamentary investigation and caused a separation of the extreme right wing party), as well as into the Catholic Church (Opus Dei, for example), and discrimination against homosexuals, among others.

Meyssan is best known for his controversial book 9/11: The Big Lie (L'Effroyable imposture), in which he presents a conspiracy theory challenging the official account of events of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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[edit] Career

In 1994, Meyssan became a staff member of the Parti Radical de Gauche, a center-left political organization, and he participates in the campaign of Bernard Tapie (1994 European elections) and Christiane Taubira (2002 presidential elections).

In 1994, he founded Voltaire Network and also created Project Ornicar, associations promoting freedom of expression and thinking, of which he is currently president.

From 1996 to 1999, he worked as substitute coordinator of the National Committee of Surveillance against the extreme right, which held weekly meetings with the 45 major political parties, unions and associations belonging to the French left wing in order to draw up a common response to escalating intolerance.

Between 1999 and 2002, Meyssan replaced Emma Bonino in the leading post of the Anti-prohibitionist Radical Coordination, an international organization aiming to decriminalize drug use as a means to cut organized crime's main source of income.

[edit] Publication of The Big Lie

In 2002, he published the controversial work on the September 11 terrorist attacks—9/11: The Big Lie—in which Meyssan argues that such attacks were organized by a faction of what he calls "the US military industrial complex" in order to impose a military regime. The book was translated into 28 languages[1];it was followed by Le Pentagate (| online french pdf version), a book arguing that the attack against the Pentagon was not carried out by a commercial airliner but a missile. The book became a No.1 bestseller in Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Morocco.[citation needed]

The central thesis of Le Pentagate, that a Boeing 757 did not hit The Pentagon, has been heavily criticised by other prominent 9/11 conspiracists such as Jim Hoffman.[1][2][3]

He started a campaign at the United Nations to initiate an international investigation commission to revisit the general consensus regarding the 9/11 attacks, but he was not able to reach his objective. There was little support, except from the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council.

[edit] Reaction in the United States

According to statistics released by the Department of Homeland Security in June 2005, more than 3,000 works have been published around the world in favour or against the thesis stated by Thierry Meyssan. In July 2005, the US State Department published a document declaring Meyssan and his Voltaire Network as major sources of anti-American misinformation in the world.

[edit] Later Activities

By taking advantage of his large participation in the world media, he stigmatizes the ideas of Leo Strauss, Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington (the “clash of civilizations”) and instead he calls for unity beyond philosophic and religious divisions in order to resist what he calls “the US global supremacy project”.

In November 2005, Thierry Meyssan presided over the Axis for Peace 2005 Colloquium, which gathered over 130 participants from 37 nations in order to discuss the international situation and call a people’s mobilization in favour of international law and world peace and against the neoconservative trend.[citation needed]

[edit] Other conspiratorial theories

Meyssan also believes the Beslan massacre was thought out and perpetrated by the CIA, through the terrorist leader Shamil Basayev, whom Meyssan insists was a CIA strawman. The purpose of the massacre in Beslan had been, claims Meyssan, an attempt by the USA to gain control of the resources of the Caspian Sea.[2]

[edit] Works

[edit] References

  1. ^ 9-11 Review: Dissembling Books
  2. ^ The Pentagon No-757-Crash Theory
  3. ^ Pentagon missile hoax

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