Panelists

Ayman Abdel Nour
Ayman Abdel Nour is an economist. He was reporting for the last Syrian Ba’ath congress.
Aram Aharonian
Aram Aharonian is the founder of Question magazine and Alia2 press agency in Venezuela. He is the CEO of the new Latino-American television channel Telesur.
Mohammed Almezel
Mohammed Almezel is a journalist, editor of the international page in U.A.E. daily Gulf News.
Ahmad Altinawi
Ahmad Altinawi is chief editor of the syrian magazine Black and White.
Amir Al Anbari
Amir Al Anbari is a lawyer and diplomat. After having been a law advisor to OPEC, he was director of the Iraqi development fund. He followed a long career as a high responsibility Iraqi ambassador that lead him to United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States and the Vatican. Most importantly he was ambassador to UNESCO and the UN, vice-president of the UN general assembly and special envoy for the "Oil for food" program, of which he knows every (...)
Youssef El Aschkar
Youssef El Aschkar is a historian, a political theorist and a militant. Four times elected president of the P.S.N.S., which is the main party of the secular movement in the middle east. Author of various books, including "The Globalization of Terror", which was published at the same time as the September 11th attacks, predicting their imminence and consequences. He publishes ASCHKAR.ORG, a website specialized in the resistance to the « Neo World Order ».
«The action of Axis for Peace should (...)
Jaime Ballesteros
Jaime Ballesteros is the president of the Organization of solidarity of the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL). He was responsible for the organisation of the clandestine Spanish communist party under the franquist dictatorship, then became Cortès representative with the democratic transition.
Mazen Belal
Mazen Belal is a journalist. He is chief editor of the daily electronic newspaper of Syria Alghad, a research institute on political modernization of Syria.
Marie-Dominique Bertuccioli
Marie-Dominique Bertuccioli is a journalist for Radio Habana Cuba.
Christine Bierre
Christine Bierre is the chief editor of French magazine Nouvelle solidarité.
Christopher Bollyn
Christopher Bollyn is an investigative journalist for American Free Press.
«The first scientific study about the destruction of the World Trade Center is about to be published», an interview with Christopher Bollyn.
Jean Bricmont
Jean Bricmont is a professor of theoretical physics at the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium). As a polemist he published a pamphlet against intellectual scams; as a citizen he hosted an international tribunal for the Iraq war.
«In Defence of International Law», by Jean Bricmont.
Jacques Cheminade
Jacques Cheminade is the president of Solidarité et progrès (solidarity and progress), a political party advocating the ideas of Lyndon LaRouche, and candidate for the 2007 French presidential elections.
Michel Collon
Michel Collon teaches journalism. He is the author of Attention médias ! ("Beware, Media!") among other works, a manual to resist manipulation based on the lies of the United States’ propaganda during the Gulf War.
Sandro Cruz
Journalist and vice-president of Voltaire Network, Sandro Cruz founded Latin-American press agency IPI (Informe de Prensa Internacional).
Marlin Dick
Marlin Dick is a journalist, former chief editor of the Daily Star.
Marcin Domagala
Marcin Domagala is a historian and associative activist. He is also the chief editor for Glos Samoobrony, the Polish "Self Defense" center-left party publication.
Bruno Drweski
A scholar, historian, political analyst and journalist, Bruno Drweski co-founded the European network of alternative and solidary economy, directs La Pensée libre, and writes for La Nouvelle Alternative. He is also the deputy general secretary of the Appel franco-arabe and authored several books on Eastern Europe and Sudan.
Ghassan El Ezzi
Ghassan El Ezzi is a researcher and journalist, in charge of Confluences Méditerrannée magazine.
Zeina Fayad
Zeina Fayad is a journalist for Arab News Broadcasting.
«I Urge the Peoples to Negociate and Debate», an interview with Zeina Fayad.
Father François Houtart
François Houtart is a catholic priest and a scholar. He was an expert for the Vatican Council II. Theologian of the liberation, he founded Alternatives Sud magazine and is one of the initiators of the World Social Forum. As a sociologist he wrote more than forty books. He is the head of the International League for the Liberation of the Peoples.
Abdullah Alhumood
Abdullah AlHumood is the vice president of the Saudi Association for Media and Communication - Riyadh
Piotr Ikonowicz
Piotr Ikonowicz is a journalist. He worked for the Polish news agency PAP, then for Solidarnosc before being arrested several times after the proclamation of martial law in Poland in 1981. Co-founder of the Polish Socialist party in 1987, he was arrested for having participated in the workers’ strikes on the same year. During the Round table negociations, Poland Cardinal Primacy Jozef Glemp resquested and obtained from general Jaruzelski that Ikonowicz would not be allowed to participate. (...)
Khales Al-Jalabi
Khales Al-Jalabi is one of the main leaders of the non-violent movement in the Arab world.
Diana Johnstone
Diana Johnstone was a parliamentary assistant to the Greens in the European parliament, then collaborated as a journalist to Covert Action Quarterly (USA). She is the author of numerous books, among which Fools’ Crusade : Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions.
Nedal Al Khodari
Nedal Al Khodari is a Syrian journalist.
Salim Lamrani
Salim Lamrani is a French researcher at Denis-Diderot (Paris VII) University, specialist of the relations between Cuba and the United States.
«Fifty Years of U.S. Terrorism Against Cuba», by Salim Lamrani.
Max Lesnik
A Cuban journalist working for Radio Miami in the United States, Max Lesnik is a specialist of Cuba-U.S.A. relations.
Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala
Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala is a humorist and movie actor. As an active citizen committed against discriminations, he burst into politics when he brought contradiction to an extreme right-wing leader during congressional elections. In his shows he ridiculises negrophobia in France as much as the apartheid in Israel.
«There is a generalized racism, a liberated racist speech that goes beyond what the extreme right dared to say», an interview with Dieudonné M’Bala (...)
Attila Melegh
Attila Melegh is an assistant-lecturer at the Center for International Studies of the Budapest University economics department and researcher at the Demographical research Institute of the Hungarian Bureau of statistics. He has highlighted the recolonisation of the East-European territory by the European Union after the collapse of the USSR.
Osama El-Mohtar
Osama El-Mohtar is a researcher and journalist. He authored several books in Arabic and English on Near-East politics and the lack of objectivity in the media. He has also translated works on religious matters.
Craig Murray
Craig Murray (United Kingdom) was a diplomat since 1986. He occupied several important positions, notably in Nigeria, Poland and more recently as an embassador of the Crown to Uzbekistan, from 2002 to 2004. He was dismissed after having publicly opposed the support given by the "War on terror" Coalition to Islam Karimov’s dictature.
«The U.S. controls the traffic of afghan heroin», an interview with Craig (...)
Isabel Pisano
Isabel Pisano is a journalist in Spain and Italy. She was one of the last press correspondents to remain in Bagdad during Operation Desert Storm. She has interviewed many heads of states and wrote a biography of Yasser Arafat.
Alexis Ponce
Alexis Ponce is the spokesperson and director of the Permanent Human Rights Assembly (Equator). He has stood against the Plan Columbia which, under cover of the fight against narcotics production, aims at militarising the Andean region.
«The Mossad trained the Ecuadorean police in torture techniques», an interview with Alexis Ponce.
Charles Saint-Prot
Charles Saint-Prot is the director of the Observatoire d’Etudes Géopolitiques (Observatory of geopolitical studies) (OEG) in Paris and the chief editor of Études géopolitiques magazine. As a consultant and researcher specialised in international relations, he authored many works of reference translated into various languages.
The Protestant Churches and the US Game in the Arab World, by Charles (...)
Hassan Salloum
Hassan Salloum is the president of Syria Alghad, a research institute on political modernisation of Syria.
«We have to unite the Arab world», an interview with Hassan Salloum.
Shafik Al Samarrai
Shafik Al Smarrai is vice president of Iraq News (electronic newspaper and Internet radio station).
Jose Steinsleger
A writer and journalist, José Steinsleger is a founding member of the Latin-American Federation of journalists (FELAP, 1976), of the Agencia Latinoamericana de Servicios Especiales de Información (ALASEI-UNESCO, 1984) and the movement "Defending humanity" (Mexico, 2003). He authored and co-authored many works on Latin-American political conjuncture, and has also been writing for Mexican newspaper La Jornada since (...)
Webster G. Tarpley
Webster G. Tarpley is a journalist. Among other works, he has published an investigation on the manipulation of the Red Brigades by the Vatican’s P2 Suite and the assassination of Aldo Moro, a non-authorized biography of George H. Bush, and more recently an analysis of the methods used to perpetrate the September 11th, 2001 attacks.
«The war on terror is a myth», an interview with Webster G. (...)
Michel Tibon-Cornillot
Michel Tibon-Cornillot is a philosopher. He teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) in Paris.
Ivonne Trias Hernandez
Ivonne Trias Hernandez is a journalist and director of weekly Brecha, the only Latin-American media outlet without patronage and that elects its board of directors through a vote of the editorial staff. She was a political prisoner during the military dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-1985), then elected municipal council member for the Frente Amplio in Montevideo. She is currently the deputy director of international organisation Latin Union, in Montevideo, and a founding member of several (...)
Alberto Velasco
Alberto Velasco is a representative in Geneva. He is the president Attac-Geneva (International movement for democratic control of financial markets and their institutions) and of the Swiss organisation committee for the Alternative World Forum on Water.