Globalresearch

North Korea, a Land of Human Achievement, Love and Joy Globalresearch is an "anti-Western" website that can't distinguish between serious analysis and discreditable junk &mdash; and so publishes both. It's basically the tankie equivalent to Infowars or WND.

While some of GlobalResearch's articles discuss legitimate humanitarian concerns, its view of science, economics, and geopolitics is conspiracist &mdash; if something goes wrong, the Jews West didit! The site has long been a crank magnet: If you disagree with "Western" sources on 9/11, or HAARP, or vaccines, or H1N1, or climate change, or anything published by the "mainstream" media, then GlobalResearch is guaranteed to have a page you will love.

The website (under the domain names ', ', ', and sister site ') is run by the Montreal-based non-profit The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) founded by Michel Chossudovsky, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Whenever someone makes a remarkable claim and cites GlobalResearch, they are almost certainly wrong. GlobalResearch is such a bad reference that it has been put on the anti-spam blacklist for English Wikipedia.

Do not confuse Globalresearch with globalnews.ca, which is a perfectly ordinary news site, basically the Canadian equivalent to CNN.

What it thinks it is
In an era of media disinformation, our focus has essentially been to center on the "unspoken truth". GlobalResearch describes itself as "one of the leading alternative news media in North America" and believes it is a repository for "news articles, in-depth reports and analysis on issues which are barely covered by the mainstream media". GlobalResearch is strongly anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and anti-globalist.

Scope
Because many of its articles are reposts from other sites (and in turn other sites repost from GlobalResearch), it is hard to determine the reception GlobalResearch receives. As of February 2016, GlobalResearch itself asserted that it has more than 6.92 million page views and more than 2.7 million unique visitors per month. Its YouTube had over 23,000 subscribers and 3.4 million views and its Facebook had over 279k likes as of April 2020. Alexa ranked globalresearch.ca at 19,710th worldwide (a lot of traffic), while globalresearch.org globalresearch.com, and mondialisation.ca had virtually no traffic.

Noted sources
Globalresearch acts as both a fake news clearinghouse, and as a source for originally-written fake news as attributed to "Global Research News" or "Global Research". Globalresearch contributors are happy to source information from anyone who seems vaguely aligned with their ideology, even if said contributors are full of horseshit:


 * Alex Jones
 * Mike Adams
 * James Delingpole
 * Joseph Mercola
 * Gary Null
 * Press TV
 * RT
 * Ron Unz
 * Zero Hedge
 * Contributors to New Eastern Outlook, a Russian government-funded disinformation outfit
 * Oriental Review
 * Sott.net and its editors

Conspiracy theories
We've seen it with the treasonous US crime cabal government that engineered the murder of 3000 Americans on 9/11 to establish a fake war on terror with fake enemies acting as mercenary Islamic stooges that conveniently facilitated the dismantling of the US Constitution. Despite presenting itself as a source of scholarly analysis, Global Research mostly consists of polemicists. The prevalent strand is that a New World Order is being implemented by global elites (primarily governments and corporations). Many of the articles accept conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and propaganda in order to further this narrative.

Specific conspiracy theories include:


 * Big Pharma:
 * Big Pharma forced Australia to silence pro-homeopathy and anti-vaccination proponents;
 * Big Pharma forced the FDA to destroy homeopathy;
 * Big Pharma is covering up the "horrors" of "Western Medicine".


 * Anti-vaccination movement:
 * Vaccines in general are a depopulation tactic.
 * Vaccines cause autism.
 * Vaccines in Kenya have been laced with sterility compounds by the WHO and UNICEF. Bullshit, by the way.
 * Vaccines are toxic.
 * Vaccines don't work.
 * Vaccines are highly profitable.
 * All of the above is being covered up by Monsanto and "the West".


 * 9/11 conspiracy theories:
 * The US did 9/11 to start a war.
 * Most Americans do know the US did it, but are unwilling to push for change.
 * Most Americans don't know the US did it, because their government hides the truth.
 * The media is suppressing the TRUTH.


 * Tiananmen Square Massacre :
 * Tiananmen Square Massacre is a fake conspiracy theory created by the west. (A reprint from a tankie news site.)


 * The Middle East:
 * The USA used nukes in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
 * The USA and the CIA created ISIS and are using it as a "psyop" theater.
 * David Kelly was murdered to shush him.
 * A faction within the CIA personally loyal to George H. W. Bush supported the 1979 revolution in Iran, both to prevent the spread of communism and as part of a personal vendetta with President Jimmy Carter. The cabal also paid the new revolutionary government not to release its 52 embassy hostages until after the 1980 US elections, contributing to Carter's defeat.


 * GMFs:
 * GMFs are poison.
 * GMFs are part of a depopulation conspiracy theory through sterilization of humankind
 * Monsanto:
 * Monsanto is literally the most evil corporation.
 * Even if GMFs were fine, then Monsanto's existence would make them bad.


 * Zionism and the International Jewish Conspiracy:
 * Zionists are plotting to rule everything from Cairo to Baghdad
 * Zionists have infiltrated and now control America.
 * The Holocaust is a profitable industry, which Zionists collaborated in causing, and which that Zionists use to push for Palestinian ethnic cleansing.
 * Zionists use American Jews to push their agenda


 * Chemtrails:
 * Chemtrails are toxic.
 * Chemtrails are used for nefarious geo-engineering.


 * COVID-19 conspiracy theories:
 * The virus came from a US lab. These articles has been promoted by the Chinese government.


 * Genocide denialism:
 * Bosnian genocide denialism: a hoax.
 * Rwandan genocide denialism: "questioning" views are totally true and are being suppressed.


 * HAARP is a climate-controlling weapon


 * Global warming is a conspiracy theory (though some of their articles argue for the existence of global warming )


 * Fluoridation is poison.


 * Nuke fearmongering: Fukushima is killing everything!


 * The Bilderberg Group runs the world.


 * Charlie Hebdo was a false flag.
 * Russian Ukrainian war conspiracy theories
 * Ukraine harvests Children's organs in andrenchrome labs
 * Blackrock is Trying to buy Ukraine


 * Just some actual headlines:
 * North Korea, a Land of Human Achievement, Love and Joy: North Korea Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Victory
 * US Training Nazis, Western Media Providing Cover
 * The Complete History of Monsanto, "The World’s Most Evil Corporation"
 * Capitalism and "The Universal Religion"
 * "US Struggles to Keep Asia in Dark Age. US-Funded 'Newspapers' and 'Activists'".
 * "Weaponizing the Term 'Conspiracy Theory': Disinformation Agents and the CIA": The CIA tells lies, mainstream media is disinformation, and Andrew Wakefield's research is both valid and replicated. Right.
 * Fidel Castro Ruz. His Legacy Will Live Forever (at least according to Fidel Castro)

FBI Refuses to Uncover Plot to Assassinate Occupy Leaders
Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me if the government cooks up these [assassination] plans for every movement that threatens the establishment. They just keep them in place as a last resort, while they use the combined efforts of the media, informants, and provocateurs to quietly neuter these movements before they become a problem. We may have just gotten lucky by stumbling onto one of their premature plans. This article is a truly beautiful example of the site's moonbattery. In the real world, Freedom of Information Act request was sent for details on an assassination plot for members of the Occupy Houston movement. The FBI argued that the documents are legally exempted from the Freedom of Information Act, because they contained the identities of confidential sources who were members of organized violent groups. In the Globalresearch world, Chussodovsky quotes:

From this, Joshua Krause, writing for Global Research, concludes:

Global Research is engaging in classic conspiracist JAQing off: rather than actually trying to find out what the FBI did, or waiting for the details on the group to be revealed, Global Research fills in the blanks with The Big Bad United States Government, providing no reasons to believe this, but merely hoping that the lack of counterevidence is sufficient.

The Doctrine of Superior People: The Bond between Israel and World Zionism
Globalresearch approvingly reuses James Petras' article, which borders on antisemitism. Petras writes:

It's one thing for Petras to disprove Jewish supremacist arguments, which are fundamentally racialist and irrational. It's wholly another to assert that Jews worldwide knowingly conspire to control the events of the world. (This was quite literally Hitler's worldview in reference to the Jews, whom he blamed for every international event.)

Petras describes centuries of Jewish thought with:

Yet surely the highly religious Christian and Islamic societies of the time had exactly the same problem; singling out Judaism for this treatment is suspicious.

Petras writes:

Petras fails to consider that Jews likely avoided being visibly Jewish because of antisemitism, and manages to paint 1800s-1950s Europe as "highly secular".

Petras also does not distinguish between being ethnically Jewish and being religiously Jewish (you can be one without being the other), and ignores the fact that Jewish cultural traditions arising from Judaism are often still found within non-practicing Jews. He writes:

Einstein, for example, truly discarded Judaism and became an atheist/deist. But he did not show disdain for his ethnic background, and expressed identification and solidarity with fellow Jews.

Petras continues with:

The article then proceeds to list a whole bunch of Jews who have done terrible things. One can't imagine why they'd leave those people off lists meant to celebrate pride. Why doesn't the LGBT community include in their list of historical LGBT people? Surely they must be hiding something!

For articles like these, the Jewish Tribune described Globalresearch as "rife with anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial". In response, Chussodovsky argues that Globalresearch is "anti-Zionist, not antisemitic". It appears that Globalresearch is completely unable to distinguish the line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism, much like it is unable to distinguish the line between "anti-Western" conspiracies and genuine news, and so ends up supporting both.

The antisemitism (and anti-globalism) on Globalresearch is either remarkable or explainable by Chossudovsky's background. Chossudovsky is the son of a Russian Jewish emigré with a distinguished UN career (Evgeny Chossudovsky), and Michel Chossudovsky claims that his father supported the Palestinian cause, the Centre for Research on Globalization and Global Research. Global Research was not as far as is known flirting with antisemitism prior to Evgeny's death.

"America is on a 'Hot War Footing': House Legislation Paves the Way for War with Russia?"
Globalresearch asserts that most of mainstream media is ultimately controlled by NATO and the US government.

Globalresearch is correct that no major news sources covered the resolution, (though the Ron Paul Institute and Inquisitr both managed to get their digs in) but they fail to provide any reason to believe that the media "has been instructed not to cover" the issue, rather than looking for more viewer-enticing stories — say, the graphic war that's actually going on in Ukraine. Moreover, a resolution is not a bill — it merely says that Congress is really, really pissed at Russia, rather than putting it on "hot war footing".

Miscellaneous Anti-Western bias
Globalresearch appears to fully believe that the West can do no right, and anything which opposes the "West" (i.e., the US and its allies) can do no wrong. It can be argued they're justified in this thinking, seeing how it was the West that started the Iraq War, the West that overthrew Salvador Allende and instated neoliberal criminal Pinochet as dictator of Chile, alongside the West's long history of colonial "ventures" (read: imperialism) overseas as just mere examples. Examples:


 * During the 2011 Libyan civil war the site was an apologist for Muammar al-Gaddafi, reproducing his propaganda and painting him as a paragon of a modern leader. However, it should be noted that overthrowing Gaddafi has been a disaster for Libya, which is now in an eight year long civil war that shows no signs of ending anytime soon. Thanks, Obama.


 * 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.   Chossudovsky wrote that "the deaths of protesters in Maidan square triggered by Neo-Nazi elements have been used to break the legitimacy of a duly elected government" and questions, "Is the US backing Neo-Nazis in Ukraine?" While criticizing American buildup of forces against Russia, it writes: "The underlying narrative is supported by a string of baseless accusations directed against the Russian Federation. It accuses Russia of having invaded Ukraine. It states without evidence that Russia was behind the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17, it accuses Russia of military aggression." Accordingly, it denies that MH-17 had anything to do with Russia.

Russian Propaganda? Conspiracy theories about GlobalResearch
GlobalResearch is listed in Andrew Weisburd's Disinfo Network, based on how many other alleged disinfo sites referred to said website during the height of the Ukraine crisis. This supports the above section, which notes that many of GlobalResearch's sources are Russian government or extremely pro-Russian authors. GlobalResearch is also listed in the Washington Post's PropOrNot list of sites that "Reliably Echo Russian Propaganda".

Fringe-ier websites have taken the same stance. Websites ToInformIsToInfluence and MadCowNews both make the similar arguments and come to the same conclusion.

All that said, the simpler solution (which also explains everything GlobalResearch has done) is to simply assume that GlobalResearch is merely a nutty anti-Western site, rather than a knowing member of the Russian disinformation conspiracy.