Réseau Voltaire

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The Réseau Voltaire International (German Voltaire Network ) is a Syrian -based news and opinion portal run by the French journalist and conspiracy theorist Thierry Meyssan . There will be contributions from around a dozen authors from the organizations or media Agencia Cubana de Noticias (Cuba), Contralínea (Mexico), Zeit -fragen ( Switzerland), World Crisis Radio (USA) in currently 19 languages ​​(including French, English, German, Russian , Spanish, Arabic, etc.) published on VoltaireNet.org .

The Voltaire Network sees itself as “non-aligned” and committed to the principles of the Bandung Conference of April 1955. However, observers see him as a mouthpiece for the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad .

background

Originally the Réseau Voltaire von Meyssan was founded in 1994 as a non-profit organization in Paris with the support of well-known French intellectuals of the left-wing spectrum, with the aim of defending freedom of expression and secularism . Initially, the medium was mainly devoted to domestic political issues (including Front National and criticism of the Catholic Church in France), and in the late 1990s it increasingly focused on foreign policy issues ( NATO military operation against Yugoslavia , etc.). After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the publication of his book L'effroyable imposture (German title: September 11, 2001. The staged terrorism. Prelude to the world fire?) Meyssan increasingly advocates political conspiracy theories on the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . In 2005 there was a break with leading employees who complain about infiltration by Holocaust deniers and supporters of authoritarian regimes; the original organization was finally wound up in 2007.

A re-establishment by Thierry Meyssan took place with state support after he finally settled in Syria after 2006.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ voltairnet.org: About the Voltaire Network ; accessed on January 15, 2017
  2. ↑ L'Express: Conspirationnisme: Thierry Meyssan, le maître à fausser , journalistic portrait of Meyssan from April 17, 2015, accessed on January 14, 2017 (in French)
  3. ↑ amnistia.net La fin du Réseau Voltaire ( Memento of June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), March 30, 2005 (French)
  4. ↑ L'Obs / Rue89: Syrie: quand le général dissident était l'ami de Dieudonné , July 19, 2012, accessed on January 15, 2017 (French)