Thierry Meyssan

From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)

Thierry Meyssan is a French journalist and political activist. He is best known for his controversial book 9/11: The Big Lie, in which he challenged the official account of events of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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), among others.

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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, an association promoting the 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 replaces Emma Bonino in the leading post of the Anti-prohibitionist Radical Coordination, an international organization aiming to liberalising drugs as a mean to cut organized crime's main source of income.

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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 the US military industrial complex in order to impose a military regime. The book, which immediately became a world best seller and was translated into 27 languages, was followed by The Pentagate, a book affirming that the attack against the Pentagon was not carried out by using a commercial airliner but a missile.

He started a campaign at the United Nations to create an international investigation commission to deal with the attacks, but he was not able to reach his objective despite the support offered by the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council.

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Reaction in the United States

In 2002, Thierry Meyssan was declared persona non grata in the United States by the US Department of Defense. 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.

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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 (intellectuals, diplomats, politicians, journalists, etc.) 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.

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Works

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--Angel 10:01, 29 May 2006 (CDT)

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