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Michel Chossudovsky (born 1946) is a Canadian economist. A professor of economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Chossudovsky has been a visiting professor internationally, and has been an adviser to governments of developing countries. In 1999, Chossudovsky joined the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research as an adviser. He is the author of The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003) and America's "War on Terrorism" (2005) and Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011).

Biography

Chossudovsky is the son of a Russian émigré, the career United Nations diplomat and academic Evgeny Chossudovsky (1914–2006). Raised in Geneva, he is a graduate of the University of Manchester, and obtained a PhD at the University of North Carolina.

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, and it was the effects of General Augusto Pinochet's post-coup policies which sparked his interest in "economic repression". Pinochet's government among other measures quadrupled the price of bread, and Chossudovsky set out to examine the social effects, concluding that the government was engaging not merely in conventional political repression, but also in "economic repression". Chossudovsky subsequently examined these types of economic policies in a wide range of countries, often associated with International Monetary Fund and/or World Bank programs. One of Chossudovsky's policy conclusions was the corrosive effect of tax havens, which he argued in a world of increasingly mobile capital had facilitated the "criminalization" of the global economy through movements of large amounts of drug money and other illegal finance: "This critical drain of billions of dollars in capital flight dramatically reduces state tax revenues, paralyses social programs, drives up budget deficits and spurs the accumulation of large public debts."

In 2001, Chossudovsky founded the Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), located in Montreal, Canada, becoming its editor and director. It is "committed to curbing the tide of globalisation and disarming the new world order". CRG maintains websites in several languages, including the English-language GlobalResearch.ca, which are critical of United States foreign policy and NATO as well as the official explanation of the September 11 attacks in 2001 and the war on terror. They are also concerned with media disinformation, poverty and social inequality, the global economic crisis, and politics and religion. He has called the Free Syrian Army a de facto paramilitary creation of NATO. The deaths of protesters in Maidan Square in Kiev in spring 2014, according to Chossudovsky, were 'triggered by Neo-Nazi elements' used, 'to break the legitimacy of a duly elected government.' He is a favoured commentator at Russia Today.

Criticism

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In Mike Karadjis' 2000 book Bosnia, Kosova, and the West, Chossudovsky is referred to as a "pro-Milošević leftist", as well as accused of "systematically distorting events in Albania and the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s".

Terry Glavin has criticized his 'mouthing Baathist propaganda on behalf of the regime in Damascus' and 'his outrageous services to police states.'

Bibliography

• With Fred Caloren and Paul Gingrich, Is the Canadian Economy Closing Down? (Montreal: Black Rose, 1978) ISBN 0-919618-80-4
• Towards Capitalist Restoration? Chinese Socialism After Mao (New York: St Martin's, 1986 and London: Macmillan, 1986) ISBN 0-333-38441-5
• The Globalization of Poverty: Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms, (Penang: Third World Network, 1997) and (London: Zed, 1997) ISBN 81-85569-34-7 and ISBN 1-85649-402-0
• Exporting Apartheid to Sub-Saharan Africa (New Delhi: Madhyam, 1997) ISBN 81-86816-06-2
• 'Washington's New World Order Weapons Can Trigger Climate Change', (November 26, 2000)
• War and Globalization: The Truth Behind September 11 (Global Outlook and the Centre for Research on Globalization, 2002)
  • in French as: Guerres et Mondialisation: A Qui Profite Le 11 Septembre? (Serpent a Plume, 2002) ISBN 2-84261-387-2
• The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order (Oro, Ontario: Global Outlook, 2003) ISBN 0-9731109-1-0 – Excerpt.
• America's "War on Terrorism" (Pincourt, Quebec: Global Research, 2005) ISBN 0-9737147-1-9
• (with Andrew Gavin Marshall, eds) The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century (Global Research Publishers, 2010)
• Towards a World War III Scenario. The Dangers of Nuclear War (2012)

References

1. ^ "TFF Associates". The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research.
2. Scott A. Bessenecker (October 31, 2006). The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor. IVP Books. p. 156.
3. Michel Chossudovsky – Department of Economics. Socialsciences.uottawa.ca. Retrieved on 2012-01-08.
4. Irish Times, 28 January 2006, Evgeny Chossudovsky: Writer with a distinguished UN career; also at highbeam.com
5. ^ Juliet ONeill, Ottawa Citizen, 5 January 1998, Battling Mainstream Economics
6. "Globalization Links: Anti-Establishmentarians on the Web". The University of Iowa Center for International Finance and Development. June 2002. Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
10. Karadjis (2000). Bosnia, Kosova, and the West. pp. 172–178, 207.
11. national post 23 August 2011ottawas gaddafi fans
12. Scott Loughrey, Baltimore Chronicle, 9 November 2002, MEDIA BOOK REVIEW: War and Globalization by Michel Chossudovsky
13. Stephen Lendman, Atlantic Free Press, 19 June 2007, Michel Chossudovsky's - America's War on Terrorism - Book Review by Stephen Lendman
14. Sherwood Ross, Scoop, 26 April 2012, Review of Michel Chossudovsky's book on nuclear war

External links

• Chossudovsky's articles at Centre for Research on Globalization
• A list of audio interviews: (French Connection Audio Archive)
• War and Globalization presentation. (Google Video)

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