Michel Chossudovsky

Michel Chossudovsky
Born 1946 (age 70–71)
Nationality Canadian
Institution Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa
Centre for Research on Globalization
Field Economic development
Globalization
International financial institutions
World economy

Michel Chossudovsky (born 1946) is a Canadian economist and author. He is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Ottawa.[1][2] Since 2001, he has been the president and director of the Centre for Research on Globalization, which publishes conspiracy theories.[3][4][5] Chossudovsky is himself a proponent of 9/11 conspiracy theories.[6][7]

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.[8] Chossudovsky joined the University of Ottawa in 1968.[9] He was a visiting professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile during the 1970–1973 government of Salvador Allende.[9]

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.[10] He has also contributed to the French magazine Le Monde diplomatique[11] and, more recently, to RT (formerly known as Russia Today),[12] and has been interviewed on Iran's Press TV.[13] Chossudovsky was interviewed in the documentary film The Weight of Chains, which the Centre for Research on Globalization amongst others sponsored.[14] In 2014, he was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit by the government of Serbia.[15]

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".[6] The book was found in the bookshelf in Osama bin Laden's compound Abbottabad, Pakistan.[6][16][7] 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."[7]

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".[17]

The Centre for Research on Globalization promotes a variety of conspiracy theories and falsehoods.[4][18][5][19][20][21][22] According to PolitiFact, the Centre "has advanced specious conspiracy theories on topics like 9/11, vaccines and global warming."[5] 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.'"[19] A 2010 study categorized the website as a source of anti-vaccine misinformation.[20] The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab described it as "pro-Putin and anti-NATO".[23] The Jewish Tribune described the Centre as being "rife with anti-Jewish conspiracy theory and Holocaust denial."[24] The Centre has promoted the Irish slavery myth, which prompted a letter by more than 80 scholars debunking the myth.[22] 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".[21] 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.[18]

Works

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Michel Chossudovsky". Department of Economics. University of Ottawa. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  2. ↑ Faculty of Social Sciences; Department of Economics, University of Ottowa
  3. ↑ "How a pair of self-publicists wound up as apologists for Assad". The Economist. 14 April 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  4. 1 2 Pogatchnik, Shawn. "AP FACT CHECK: Irish "slavery" a St. Patrick's Day myth". ABC News. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 16 March 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 Tsang, Derek (19 August 2014). "Bloggers: Edward Snowden leaked NSA documents show U.S., Israel created Islamic State". PunditFact. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 Kakutani, Michiko (21 May 2015). "Osama Bin Laden's Bookshelf Reflects His Fixation on West". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 Edwards, Phil (20 May 2015). "The 8 craziest conspiracy theories on Osama bin Laden's bookshelf". vox.com. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  8. ↑ "Evgeny Chossudovsky: Writer with a distinguished UN career". globalresearch.ca. The Irish Times. 28 January 2006. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  9. 1 2 ONeill, Juliet (5 January 1998). "Battling Mainstream Economics". globalresearch.ca. Ottawa Citizen. Archived from the original on 5 December 2003. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  10. ↑ Chossudovsky, Michel (1 April 1993). "Russia:Go for an Alternative Economic Program". New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014.
  11. ↑ "Michel Chossudovsky archives". Le Monde diplomatic. Archived from the original on 19 June 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  12. ↑ "Michel Chossudovsky's Op-Edge profile". RT. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  13. ↑ "Interview with Michel Chossudovsky: West architect of terrorism in Syria: M. Chossudovsky". PressTV. 17 November 2013. Archived from the original on 17 November 2013.
  14. ↑ "Weight of Chains – Sponsors". Malagurski Cinema. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012.
  15. 1 2 "Government House: Awards To Canadians". Canada Gazette. Vol. 148. 31 May 2014. Archived from the original on 5 August 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  16. ↑ Sherwell, Philip (20 May 2015). "Osama bin Laden's bookshelf featured conspiracy theories about his terror plots". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  17. ↑ "About Global Research". Centre for Global Research on Globalization. Archived from the original on 29 March 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  18. 1 2 "From Al-Masdar to InfoWars: How a pro-Assad conspiracy theory got picked up by the far-right - Business Insider". Business Insider. 2017-04-09. Retrieved 2017-05-08.
  19. 1 2 Strauss, Mark (2 November 2009). "Anti-globalism's Jewish Problem". foreignpolicy.com. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  20. 1 2 Kata, Anna (2010). "A postmodern Pandora's box: Anti-vaccination misinformation on the Internet" (PDF). Vaccine. Elsevier BV. 28 (7): 1709–1716. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.12.022. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  21. 1 2 Idrees Ahmad, Muhammad (12 September 2013). "The New Truthers: Americans Who Deny Syria Used Chemical Weapons". New Republic. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  22. 1 2 Varner, Natasha (17 March 2017). "The curious origins of the 'Irish slaves' myth". Public Radio International. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  23. ↑ Nimmo, Ben. "Three thousand fake tanks". medium.com. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  24. ↑ "Conspiracy web site headed by Ottawa professor sets dangerous example for students". Jewish Tribune. 25 August 2005. Archived from the original on 4 November 2005.
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