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'''Globalresearch.ca''' (also under the domain name '''globalresearch.org''') is the website of the [[Quebec|Montreal]]-based non-profit '''The Centre for Research on Globalisation''' ('''CRG''') founded by Michel Chossudovsky.
 
'''Globalresearch.ca''' (also under the domain name '''globalresearch.org''') is the website of the [[Quebec|Montreal]]-based non-profit '''The Centre for Research on Globalisation''' ('''CRG''') founded by Michel Chossudovsky.
  
While many of Globalresearch's articles discuss legitimate humanitarian or [[environmental]] concerns, the site has a strong undercurrent of reality warping and [[bullshit]] throughout its pages, especially in relation to taking its news from [[Russia Today]], along with other unreliable and/or open sources. Its view of [[science]], the economy and [[geopolitics]] seems to be broadly [[conspiracy theory|conspiracist]].
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While many of Globalresearch's articles discuss legitimate humanitarian or [[environmental]] concerns, the site has a strong undercurrent of reality warping and [[bullshit]] throughout its pages, especially in relation to taking its news from sources such as [[Russia Today]]. Its view of [[science]], the economy and [[geopolitics]] seems to be broadly [[conspiracy theory|conspiracist]].
  
 
Whenever someone makes a remarkable claim and cites Globalresearch, [[whale.to|they are almost certainly wrong]].
 
Whenever someone makes a remarkable claim and cites Globalresearch, [[whale.to|they are almost certainly wrong]].

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Globalresearch.ca (also under the domain name globalresearch.org) is the website of the Montreal-based non-profit The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) founded by Michel Chossudovsky.

While many of Globalresearch's articles discuss legitimate humanitarian or environmental concerns, the site has a strong undercurrent of reality warping and bullshit throughout its pages, especially in relation to taking its news from sources such as Russia Today. Its view of science, the economy and geopolitics seems to be broadly conspiracist.

Whenever someone makes a remarkable claim and cites Globalresearch, they are almost certainly wrong.

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What it thinks it is

The website describes itself as an "independent research and media organization." Globalresearch considers itself to be a reliable "alternative news" source serving as a major repository of a broad range of "news articles, in-depth reports and analysis on issues which are barely covered by the mainstream media" (such as the New World Order). Its politico-economic stance is strongly anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-militarist, "internationalist but anti-globalization."

What it is

Despite presenting itself as a source of scholarly analysis, Globalresearch mostly consists of polemics many of which accept (and use) conspiracy theories, pseudoscience and propaganda. The prevalent conspiracist strand relates to global power-elites (primarily governments and corporations) and their New World Order.[1] Specific featured conspiracy theories include those addressing 9/11,[2] vaccines,[3] genetic modification,[4] Zionism,[5][6] HAARP,[7] global warming,[8][9] and David Kelly.[10] Analyses of these issues tend follow the lines of the site's political biases.

Globalresearch contributors seem to consider information sourced from anyone who seems vaguely aligned with their ideology is reliable; during the 2011 Libyan civil war the site was an apologist for Muammar al-Gaddafi,[11] reproducing his propaganda and painting him as a paragon of a modern leader. In the 2014 Ukrainian crisis the site is taking the standard "anti-globalisation" stance against the Western side and falling into the ranks of imperial Russian propaganda instead.

It's no surprise then that the site has long become a magnet for radicals, fringe figures and whacko elements from the left in general.

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