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. 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.
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."
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