Bernard Guetta
Bernard Guetta is a French corporate journalist and politician, and specialist in international geopolitics, where he supported the official narrative from a "leftist" angle during the Cold War, the Arab Spring and the deep state drive for European supranational integration.
He was selected a Young Leader by the transatlantic French-American Foundation in 1981, at a time when he was a spooky reporter in Poland. He attended the 1998 Bilderberg meeting.
After a conspicuously well-remunerated career in corporate media, he was elected as a member of the European Parliament in 2019, where he supports supranational deep state policies on Covid and the New Cold War against Russia, China and a number of other countries.[1]
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Background
Bernard Guetta was born and raised in a family of Sephardic Jews. His father is Pierre Guetta, of Moroccan origin, a sociologist specializing in labor studies who later became a restaurateur, while his mother is Francine née Bourla (1928-2011), who owned a tribal art gallery[2]. His parents separated when he entered the 6th grade. He is the brother of the actress Nathalie Guetta and the half-brother by his father of David Guetta, a world-renowned disc jockey.[3]
With parents who passed through Trotskyism, anti-colonialism and the Unified Socialist Party (PSU), he grew up in a very politicized environment, anchored in an the anti-Soviet left.
At the age of fifteen, he joined the Human Rights League, where Daniel Mayer directed him to the monthly Après demain.. In charge of its distribution to the booksellers of Paris, he thus participated in the meetings of the editorial board alongside Françoise Seligmann, Pierre Joxe and Philippe Bernard. In this radical-socialist milieu, he met personalities such as Claude Nicolet and former prime minister Pierre Mendès France (of whom he was for a time adviser on school affairs[3]).
Brought to live in Casablanca (French Morocco), he studied at the Lycée Lyautey for almost two years while living with grandparents who, during the Second World War, had welcomed their cousin Charles Guetta and his friend Jean Daniel for several months. Back in Paris, he finds his friends Emmanuel Todd and Jean-Pierre Cerquant (respectively son and brother-in-law of Olivier Todd).
In 1967, he participated in the operation "One billion for Vietnam", launched by his father for the reconstruction of the country.[4]
May 68
With his entry into the Lycée Henri-IV, in Paris, where he was preparing for the baccalaureate, and the events of May 68, he began to take political activist leadership.
An organizer of the occupation of Henri-IV and Fénelon high schools, he became one of the leaders of the high school action committees[3] alongside Michel Recanati, Maurice Najman and Romain Goupil. Perceiving himself then as an "American-style radical" who aimed less at seizing power than at imposing the necessary reforms, he provoked debates at Henri-IV between students and teachers on the reform of education. He joined the Revolutionary Communist Youth in October 1968 under the influence of Michel Recanati. From the beginning of 1970, he stopped participating in the meetings of the group even if he kept contacts with some of its leaders such as Henri Weber.
Career
His links with Olivier Todd facilitated his entry as an intern at the newspaper Nouvel Observateur. His entry coincided with that of his father's cousin, Charles Guetta, on the board of directors. This led to him being frowned upon by the rest of the editorial staff until the death of Charles Guetta (summer 1972) improved his image. His presence at the magazine was strengthened by his participation in the coverage of the presidential campaign of April 1974 and the Socialist Party conference (October 1974). But he continued to be interested in leftist themes: the situation in prisons, in the army and the police, the excesses of the justice system, and the control of information.
Spooky journalism
He started to pay attention to the internal protest in the French Communist Party, in particular within the Communist Youth, of which he interviews the secretary general several times; this is linked to the growing interest he takes in the questions of Soviet dissidents, supported in this by Jean Daniel and by K.S. Karol.
He became a foreign correspondent, where he dealt with countries such as Lebanon (August 1976), Zaire (April 1977) or Western Sahara (1977/1978). The question of "dissidents" then earned him the friendship of Jean Daniel who supported him within an editorial office divided on the treatment of these issues: thus, after having fought week after week to chronicle arrests and hunger strikes, he obtained his support to add a column. He thus gives the space twice to Vladimir Bukovski, denouncing the fate of Natan Sharansky. It also offered Laurent Schwartz (July 22, 1978) or Daniel Meyer (December 11, 1978) the means to express themselves on Soviet human rights violations. But in April 1979, he was recruited by the head of the foreign service of Le Monde, who offered him a job as a correspondent in Vienna.
In 1980, he moved to Poland, where he benefited from the many contacts offered to him by K.S. Karol. He was sent as correspondent to Warsaw and then in Gdańsk, writing a book about it. This was during the strikes by the Solidarity trade union, which received heavy covert support from Western countries through their intelligence services.[5]
He was selected a Young Leader by the transatlantic French-American Foundation in 1981.
Not getting a visa for the USSR, he spent four years in Washington from 1983 to 1987 before occupying the position of correspondent in Moscow from 1987 to 1990. He was Editor-in-chief of L'Expansion from 1991 to 1993, of Nouvel Observateur from 1996 to 1999.
France Inter
In 1991, he was hired by the public broadcaster France Inter. He was active every morning on the radio for 27 years, in particular with a geopolitical column every morning at 8:17 am after the news bulletin.
Until he retired in 2018, he received from France Inter a monthly salary of more than 10,000 euros gross, or about 500 euros per column[6]. His columns for the magazines Challenges and Internazionale also brought him between 1,000 and 5,000 euros gross monthly each[6].
In 2005, he campaigned for the "yes" vote in the referendum on the European constitutional treaty (ECT). His morning columns on France Inter were often pleas in favor of a more successful European integration, provoking criticism from media such as the monthly Le Monde diplomatique[7][8], or the media critics association Acrimed.[9]
His radio chronicles of the year 2011 was overwhelmingly focused on the Arab spring regime changes.[10] He gave support for a military intervention by France in the Syrian regime change.[11]
European Parliament
He was elected deputy to the European Parliament in 2019.[12] During Covid, he was early to point to a "vaccine" as the only way out:
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/1998 | 14 May 1998 | 17 May 1998 | Scotland Turnberry | The 46th Bilderberg meeting, held in Scotland, chaired by Peter Carrington |
| Brussels Forum/2008 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. | ||
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2004 | 21 January 2004 | 25 January 2004 | Switzerland | 2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres. |
References
- ↑ https://www.bernard-guetta.eu/2022/12/05/the-fall-of-the-tsars/?lang=en
- ↑ Jacques Lafitte et Stephen Taylor, Qui est qui en France, Jacques Lafitte, 2008, p. 1070.
- ↑ a b c Jacqueline Rémy, « Le jour & la night », Vanity Fair n° 46, mai 2017, pages 100-105.
- ↑ Dominique Venner, « Guide de la contestation [Archive https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.fr%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3TyxDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPT138%26lpg%3DPT138%26dq%3Dun%2Bmilliard%2Bpour%2Ble%2Bvietnam%2Bguetta%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3D8UUf3XEbKH%26sig%3DACfU3U2nuBN95fM4f0_-Pvr5X3YHzodIsw%26hl%3Dfr%26sa%3DX%26ved%3D2ahUKEwjxw-7I6N_mAhUNnhQKHRchDZAQ6AEwAXoECAoQAQ%23v%3Donepage%26q%3Dun%2520milliard%2520pour%2520le%2520vietnam%2520guetta%26f%3Dfalse]
- ↑ https://polishhistory.pl/a-covert-action-reagan-the-cia-and-the-cold-war-struggle-in-poland/
- ↑ a b https://www.capital.fr/economie-politique/letonnante-remuneration-que-versait-france-inter-a-bernard-guetta-son-chroniqueur-vedette-1357234
- ↑ http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2005/02/Halimi/11909 [archived https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monde-diplomatique.fr%2F2005%2F02%2FHalimi%2F11909]
- ↑ http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2008/11/Rimbert/16462#nb1 [archived https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monde-diplomatique.fr%2F2008%2F11%2FRimbert%2F16462%23nb1]
- ↑ http://www.acrimed.org/article1931.html
- ↑ interview dans l'émission « Downtown », France Inter, 15 mars 2012.
- ↑ http://www.acrimed.org/article4143.html [archived https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acrimed.org%2Farticle4143.html]
- ↑ https://www.lci.fr/politique/nathalie-loiseau-pascal-canfin-bernard-guetta-une-ancienne-navigatrice-un-agriculteur-la-liste-renaissance-larem-aux-europeennes-devoilee-2116559.html
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