For a few years, Chiesa collaborated with Limes, an Italian journal of geopolitics, and with Russian journals, such as Literaturnaja Gazeta, Delovoi Vtornik, Moskovskie Novosti, Itogi. He was a political commentator for Russia Today. In later years, he contributed to other Russian television channels, such as Russia-24, REN TV, Zvezda, and Kultura. 2008 Russian-Georgian Conflict Concerning the 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia, Chiesa stated that "Russia did precisely what had to be done." He added "I think Europe is partly responsible for this war, by unconditionally supporting Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili and his claims on South Ossetia and Abkhazia." Regarding media coverage of the war, Chiesa declared that "the information given by the media is shameful for the West. Western news channels broadcast images and headlines that were politically biased. Some of them claimed that Russia wanted to conquer Georgia, although no evidence whatsoever backed up that argument. Mikheil Saakashvili was portrayed as the unfortunate victim of Big Bad Putin and very often images of Tskhinvali razed by bombs were not shown. It is the worst coverage I have ever seen since the war in Iraq." Pandora TV During the last months of 2008, Chiesa, together with a large group of journalists, writers and intellectuals linked to Megachip, created the experimental project Pandora TV, a multi-platform television channel funded by its own viewers (www.pandoratv.it). In April 2009, he was a candidate for the European Parliament elections in Latvia for the Party For Human Rights in United Latvia. In 2010, he produced two books, one called La Menzogna Nucleare (The Nuclear Lie), co-written with the physicist Guido Cosenza and the eco-physicist Luigi Sertorio. In the autumn, the same publisher launched Il Candidato Lettone, Inedite avventure di un alieno in Europa (The Latvian Candidate. Unusual Adventures of an Alien in Europe), reportage of the campaign for the elections in Latvia, translated both into Russian and into English. In April 2010, Chiesa founded Alternativa, a laboratory of cultural and political ideas, in Genoa of which he became president. In 2011 – in commemoration of the ten years after 9/11 - the publisher Piemme issued Zero 2. The Smoking Guns. The volume begins with a large essay focused on new evidence claiming to debunk the "official version" (commonly accepted history) on at least seven points and which were no longer mere questions and clues but instead very detailed indictments. The essay remained at