John D. Anthony is president and general director of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and co-founder of many groups such as the Commission on Israeli-Palestinian Peace. He is the only non-Arab personality to have participated in all heads of states summits of the Gulf Cooperation Council since it was created. Video of John D. Anthony’s presentation. John D. Anthony : a member of the Council on Foreign Relations at the Axis for (...)

Prince Issa El Ayoubi is a journalist. After having been a secular political leader in the Near East, he became a specialist of Euro-Arab relations. He is the publishing director of Intelligencia and is a vice president of the Voltaire Network.

Andreas von Bülow is a lawyer. He was a parliament member (social-democrat) for 25 years, secretary of State and minister. At the Bundestag, he was a member of the Parliamentary secret services control committee, where he shed the light on the CIA’s implication in various criminal operations that claimed a number of German lives during the Cold War. In 2002 he published an investigative work on the September 11th, 2001 attacks, in which he blames a faction of United States’ secret services for (...)

Philip Berg is a former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania. He is the lawyer of the families of Sept 11th 2001 attacks victims who think those crimes were ordered and organised from the White House and the Joint chief of staff. He is also the lawyer of witnesses who testify that the World Trade Center towers were demolished using explosive charges placed in advance inside the builings. In their name, he has filed suit in the New York tribunal against the Bush team, for organised crime. (...)

Giulietto Chiesa is a journalist. He was a press correspondent for El Manifesto and Avvenimenti, and collaborated with many radios and television channels in Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Russia and Vatican. Author of many books, he wrote about the dismemberment of the USSR, and United-Stater imperialism among other subjects. He has been an outspoken opponent to the Italian participation in the invasion of Iraq. In 2004 he was elected as a member of the European Parliament (Democrat (...)

Enrique Román Hernández is a journalist and diplomat. He was director of Granma and president of the Cuban Radio and Television Institute. After being the Cuban ambassador to Lebanon and Jordan, he was elected vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship among the Peoples (ICAP). He is also a member of the Center for Strategic Studies of the Havana Higher Institute for International Relations. Video of Enrique Román Hernández’s presentation. «Cuba is ready to face an aggression but it (...)

Salim El Hoss is an economist. Former president of the Lebanese banking control commission, he was appointed Prime minister on five occasions (1976-80, 1987-90, 1998-2000) in difficult circumstances. He managed to maintain the country’s stability in spite of its inner conflicts and its external meddlings. Video of Salim El Hoss’s presentation. «America is democratic inside, despotic outside», an interview with Salim El (...)

General Leonid Ivashov is the vice-president of the Academy on geopolitical affairs. He was the chief of the department for General affairs in the Soviet Union’s ministry of Defense, secretary of the Council of defense ministers of the Community of independant states (CIS), chief of the Military cooperation department at the Russian federation’s Ministry of defense and Joint chief of staff of the Russian armed forces. Video of General Leonid Ivashov’s presentation. «International Terrorism (...)

Jhannett Madriz Sotil is a lawyer. She defended colonel Hugo Chavez Frias before Venezuela’s martial court when he was arrested for refusing to fire on the crowd and turning against the government. A co-founder of the Movement for the 5th Republic, she is a member of the Bolivarian movement’s High Council. She was vice-president of the Andean Parliament and president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Americas. Video of Jhannett Madriz Sotil’s presentation. «We were able to neutralize the (...)

Thierry Meyssan is a writer and international consultant. He is the national secretary of PRG, a French center-left political party. He is the president of Voltaire Network, an international association advocating individual freedoms and "laïcité" (the separation between state and religion). He is also editor of voltairenet.org, an electronic daily specialised in international politics. He has particularly committed himself to the dialogue between civilisations. Video of Thierry Meyssan’s (...)

James Petras is a scholar. He teaches sociology at the New York State University. He has developed a marxist critic of globalisation as a paradigm of the new United Stater imperialism. Video of James Petras’s presentation. «War or Peace/War and Peace», by James Petras.

Mateusz Piskorski is a journalist and political analyst at the University of Szczecin, specialised in political parties. He was elected as a representative, at the age of 28, on the Polish left-wing patriotic "Autodefense" list. He also co-founded several Polish associations and wrote dozens of scientific articles published in Poland and abroad. Video of Mateusz Piskorski’s presentation. «Poland Has Been Used as the Trojan Horse of the United States in the European Union», an interview with (...)

Major-General Vinod Saighal is a former general director of the Indian army’s military training. He was an embassy military attaché in France and Benelux, and commander-in-chief of the peacekeeping forces in the Near East. Today he is the founder of the Movement for Restoration of Good Government (MRGG) and head of Eco Monitors Society (EMS). He is the author of numerous works on strategy and political analysis, and has recently published Dealing with Global Terrorism: The Way Forward. (...)

David Shayler is a former agent of the British counterespionage service. In the late nineties, he revealed the MI6 funding of a terrorist cell in Libya to kill the country’s leader Muammar Khadafi. Later on, Shayler was incarcerated in France at the request of the British authorities for having breached the Official Secrets Act. The book recounting his story is prohibited on British territory. Video of David Shayler’s presentation. «I quit the British Secret Service when the MI6 decided to (...)

Ahmad Tibi is a doctor. He was an advisor to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat for many years and participated to the Wye River peace talks. He has been a representative at the Knesset since 1998. Video of Ahmad Tibi’s presentation. «Israel says it’s a “Jewish Democracy” but there is a contradiction between democracy and the ethnic reference of the term used», an interview with Ahmad (...)

Subhi Toma is a sociologist. Former political prisoner in Iraq, he was granted the status of refugee in France. Opposing the Saddam Hussein regime, he is known for having initiated in the 1990’s several actions aimed at breaching the blockade against Iraq, for instance "A Plane for Iraq". He is one of the main initiators of actions against the occupation of Iraq and for the defense of political prisoners. He is among the founding members heading the Arab National Congress. Video of Subhi (...)

General René Vargas Pazzos (c.r) was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff for the Equatorian army, representative, and then Minister of Energy. Today he is the President of the Civilian Watch Committee on the consequences of Plan Columbia. Video of General René Vargas Pazzos’s presentation. «The United States has monopolized power and encourages its great companies to see themselves as a conquering army», an interview with General René Vargas (...)

Antonio Alberto Vulcano is an Argentinean doctor working in the public health sector, exiled activist, and survived State terrorism during the 70’s. He recently participated in the national conference of the "Federation of the earth, food production and housing" social organisation. Video of Antonio Alberto Vulcano’s presentation. «The U.S. wants to appropriate Latin America’s resources», an interview with Antonio Alberto (...)

Helga Zepp-LaRouche is the president of Schiller Institute. She is the spouse of U.S. economist Lyndon LaRouche. Video of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s presentation.