Globalresearch.ca
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| —Everything you need to know about Globalresearch in a nutshell[1] |
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 throughout its pages, especially in relation to taking its news from sources such as Russia Today RT[2] and Press TV.[3] 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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[edit] 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."
[edit] What it really is
Despite presenting itself as a source of scholarly analysis, Global Research 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.[4] Specific featured conspiracy theories include those addressing 9/11,[5] vaccines,[6] genetic modification,[7] Zionism,[8][9] HAARP,[10] global warming,[11][12] Bosnian genocide denialism[13] chemtrails,[14] and David Kelly.[15]
Globalresearch contributors are happy to source information from anyone who seems vaguely aligned with their ideology; during the 2011 Libyan civil war the site was an apologist for Muammar al-Gaddafi,[16] 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.
Globalresearch also has published numerous articles written by contributors to New Eastern Outlook, a Moscow-based Russian Government propaganda site. It has published the same articles on the same day as Oriental Review, a Moscow-based site that is also almost certainly a Russian Government site.
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.
[edit] You may have heard of them elsewhere
RationalWiki's readers may be already familiar with a number of Global Research contributors (though it's unclear if these are original GR pieces, or just republished from their usual sources):
[edit] Truly remarkable articles
- North Korea, a Land of Human Achievement, Love and Joy: North Korea Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Victoryimg
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- globalresearch.ca
- Yes, Chossudovsky is a tenured professor. Weep for the future.
[edit] References
- ↑ Poe's Law! Save yourself!
- ↑ http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/russia-today
- ↑ http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/press-tv
- ↑ "The Globalization of Poverty: Deconstructing the New World Order"
- ↑ "The 9/11 Attacks, 'Keeping the Lid on the Lie': Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement"
- ↑ "The Vaccine Coverup: 30 Years of Secret Official Transcripts Show UK Government Cover Up Vaccine Hazards 'To Sell More Vaccines And Harm Your Kids'"
- ↑ "Ten Scientific Studies Prove that Genetically Modified Food Can Be Harmful To Human Health"
- ↑ “'Greater Israel': The Zionist Plan for the Middle East"
- ↑ "The State and Local Bases of Zionist Power in America"
- ↑ "HAARP: Secret Weapon Used For Weather Modification, Electromagnetic Warfare"
- ↑ "Global Warming: Ten Facts and Ten Myths on Climate Change"
- ↑ "Global Warming Media Propaganda"
- ↑ "Was Srebrenica a Hoax? Eye-Witness Account of a Former United Nations Military Observer in Bosnia"
- ↑ "Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health"
- ↑ "The Murder of Dr. David Kelly. 'A Symbol of the Blackness of the Tony Blair Cabal'"
- ↑ "Why the NATO powers are trying to assassinate Moammar Gaddafi"
- ↑ http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/mike-adams
- ↑ http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/james-delingpole
- ↑ http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/gary-null
- ↑ http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/zero-hedge