Nationality Canadian Role Economist | Name Michel Chossudovsky Website globalresearch.ca Fields Globalization | |
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Institution University of Ottawa
Centre for Research on Globalization Contributions The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003)
America's "War on Terrorism" (2005)
Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011) Parents Evgeny Chossudovsky, Rachel Chossudovsky People also search for Andrew Gavin Marshall, Evgeny Chossudovsky, Rachel Chossudovsky Books The Globalization of Poverty, America's "war on Terrorism", THE GLOBAL ECONOM, War and globalisation, The globalisation of poverty | ||
Education University of Manchester | ||
Michel chossudovsky on genocidal american imperialism
Michel Chossudovsky (born 1946) is a Canadian economist and author. He is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Ottawa. Since 2001, he has been the president and director of the Centre for Research on Globalization, which publishes conspiracy theories. Chossudovsky is himself a proponent of 9/11 conspiracy theories.
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Michel chossudovsky on 2014 ukrainian revolution
Biography
Chossudovsky is the son of a Russian Jewish émigré, the career United Nations diplomat and academic Evgeny Chossudovsky, and an Irish Protestant, Rachel Sullivan. Chossudovsky joined the University of Ottawa in 1968. He was a visiting professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile during the 1970–1973 government of Salvador Allende.
In 1993, Chossudovsky wrote an article in The New York Times saying that Boris Yeltsin's neoliberal reforms and privatization policies would lead to disaster. He has also contributed to the French magazine Le Monde diplomatique and, more recently, to RT (formerly known as Russia Today), and has been interviewed on Iran's Press TV. Chossudovsky was interviewed in the documentary film The Weight of Chains, which the Centre for Research on Globalization amongst others sponsored. In 2014, he was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit by the government of Serbia.
In 2005, Chossudovsky published the book America's "War on Terrorism". According to the New York Times, the "conspiracy-minded book... argued that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were simply a pretext for American incursions into the Middle East, and that Bin Laden was nothing but a boogeyman created by the United States". The book was found in the bookshelf in Osama bin Laden's compound Abbottabad, Pakistan. According to Vox, the book's theory is that "9/11 was a United States government conspiracy to start the Iraq War and enable a "new world order" to help corporate interests. Bin Laden was, at best, a pawn in CIA interests."
Centre for Research on Globalization
In 2001, Chossudovsky founded the Centre for Research on Globalization, becoming its editor and director. Located in Montreal, Canada, it describes itself as an "independent research and media organization" that provides "analysis on issues which are barely covered by the mainstream media".
The Centre for Research on Globalization promotes a variety of conspiracy theories and falsehoods. According to PolitiFact, the Centre "has advanced specious conspiracy theories on topics like 9/11, vaccines and global warming." Foreign Policy notes that the Centre "sells books and videos that 'expose' how the September 11 terrorist attacks were 'most likely a special covert action' to 'further the goals of corporate globalization.'" A 2010 study categorized the website as a source of anti-vaccine misinformation. The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab described it as "pro-Putin and anti-NATO". The Centre has promoted the Irish slavery myth, which prompted a letter by more than 80 scholars debunking the myth. Writing for the New Republic, Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Lecturer in Digital Journalism at the University of Stirling, describes the Centre's website as a "conspiracy site". In 2017, the Centre published a piece alleging that the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, which the international human rights organizations and governments of the United States, United Kingdom, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, France, and Israel attribute to the Bashar al-Assad regime, was a false flag operation orchestrated by terrorists opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.