page_title: Giulietto Chiesa
section_title: Megachip and Zero
hierarchical_section_title: Giulietto Chiesa / Career / Megachip and Zero
caption_attribution_description: Giulietto Chiesa alla manifestazione a Roma - "Manifestiamoci"
context_page_description: Giulietto Chiesa was an Italian journalist, author, lecturer and politician.
  He was Vice-President of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade and member of two Extraordinary Committees inside the European Parliament: the Extraordinary Renditions Committee and the Climate Change Committee. He was the founder of the cultural association Megachip. Democracy in Communications. He was the Chief Editor of the web TV Pandora TV.
context_section_description: In 1999–2000 he founded Megachip – Democracy in Communications, an association which deals with the critical analysis of how mainstream media work. Furthermore, the association created a website in order to deepen the analysis of the subjects covered (www.megachip.info). The site, in April 2009, had over sixty million webpage hits and in 2010 this number increased to over a hundred million. From Megachip other cultural projects sprang, such as a programme of Education to the media, the movie Zero: an Investigation Into 9/11 and the quarterly magazine Cometa (Comunicazione-Etica-Ambiente Communications-Ethics–Environment).
  From the latter part of the 1990s he started to monitor the issues related to globalization, in particular how it affects the world media system. In this context lies the participation of Giulietto Chiesa at the foundation of the World Political Forum, based in Turin and chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev. In 2010 President Gorbachev carried on his activities about international research, founding in Luxemburg the New Policy Forum, of whose Advisory Board Giulietto Chiesa is a member.
  Chiesa published a number of essays about that for Italian and foreign journals. Among them, two essays are derived from the lectures held at the Academy of Science and at the institute for Economy and international Relations (IMEMO).
  For few years he collaborated with Limes, an Italian journal of geopolitics and with other Russian journals, such as Literaturnaja Gazeta, Delovoi Vtornik, Moskovskie Novosti, Itogi. He has been political commentator for Russia Today. In recent years he has collaborated regularly with many Russian TV channels, such as Pervij Kanal, Rossija 1, Rossija 24, NTV, Ren TV, Zvezda, Kultura.
  Once returned to Italy he wrote other books as well as dozens of essays gathered in collections co-authored by him and others. His chronicle of the events that happened during the G8 in Genoa was published with the title G8/Genova (G8/Genoa, 2001). In the same year Afghanistan Year Zero was issued, a book co-written with the journalist and satirical cartoonist Vauro and presenting a preface written by Gino Strada, the Italian surgeon who founded Emergency. This last book remained for one year at the top of the chart with over 115,000 copies sold and it was translated into Greek. In Spring 2002 La Guerra Infinita was launched which remained for a long time at the top of the non-fiction charts. It was translated into German, English and Spanish.
  In March 2003 Superclan was published, a book co-written by him and Marcello Villari. In Moscow - in 2003 as well – was launched Beskonechnaja Voina, a collection of essays which includes parts from Afghanistan Year Zero, The Infinite War and Superclan. At the beginning of 2004 La Guerra come Menzogna (War as a Lie) was published, which has been translated into French. The essay Invece di questa sinistra (Instead of This Left) was also published, which includes the political manifesto of Mr Chiesa for the European election campaign of 2004.
  On the verge of the American attack on Iraq he promoted – together with a large group of volunteering journalists – the experimental project of an independent satellite TV, called NoWar TV.
  In 2004 Giulietto Chiesa was elected to the European Parliament elections as a member from the Italy of Values list of Di Pietro-Occhetto-Civil Society. At a later time, due to the incompatibility between his worldview and Di Pietro's, he left the parliamentary group of Liberals and Democrats – which he had joined at the request of Di Pietro - to join instead the PSE group (Party of European Socialists) as an independent member. In Italy he created the group Cantiere per il Bene Comune (Construction of the Common Good) together with Achille Occhetto, Paolo Sylos Labini, Elio Veltri, Antonello Falomi and Diego Novelli.
  In October 2004 I peggiori crimini del comunismo (The Worst Crimes of Communism) was published, co-written by him and the cartoonist Vauro, a biting satire which reveals the leftist past of some of the closest associates of the current Prime M
caption: Chiesa during a rally in 2007
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