Klaus associate to launch online magazine

Prague, March 8 (CTK) - Petr Hajek, former deputy head of the Czech Presidential Office known for his controversial stands, is preparing his own website Protiproud (Countercurrent) with the subtitle "counter-revolutionary magazine," server Parlamentilisty.cz reported Friday.

Hajek worked in the Presidential Office under Vaclav Klaus whose mandate expired on Thursday.

Hajek said his online magazine is to start operating in about 24 days.

Describing the project, Hajek again criticised Vaclav Havel, who was Klaus's predecessor in the presidential post in 1989-2003 and who died in December 2011.

He said "the Havelist revolution has won and the right's task is nothing but a counter-revolution."

In his book Death in Velvet, published last year, Hajek even wrote that Havel served the Satan.

Hajek has already issued an article on the Protiproud website that outlines the planned new magazine's goals.

"It will flow counter to the mainstream. It will ask what the reality is like. It will penetrate behind the fake picture the mainstream media and their allies have posted in front of it [reality] and have been maintaining it for 24 hours every day," Hajek wrote.

He complemented his article by a photo montage featuring WTC towers in New York burning after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and the EU flag in the foreground. The picture is headlined "Devastation and destruction under the EU flag."

In the past, Hajek repeatedly said in the media that he distrusts the official presentation of the September 11, 2001 events and believes that U.S. secret services may have been behind the attack.

Hajek left the post of the Klaus office's deputy head in late February when it was clear that the new Czech president will be former socialist PM Milos Zeman, a political rival of Klaus who does not share many of the latter's views including Euro-scepticism.

Hajek said other people will cooperate with him on the Protiproud online magazine. He will also work in the nascent Vaclav Klaus Institute in which he will head the humanity and media studies section, he told the server.