Talk:Michel Chossudovsky
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[edit] Availability of books
Are his books available online? I can't find them. -Mel
I have added ISBNs to the bibliography so that should help you. --Theo (Talk) 11:21, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
You can get his books at any Chapters or Indigo, we use two of his texts as text books in my university.
[edit] Michel Chossudovsky & Conspiracy Theories
Is there any connection between Michel Chossudovsky and Lyndon LaRouche? They seem to have the same agenda and share many beliefs. Shouldn't the text about Michel Chossudovsky focus a bit more on his conspiracy theories about the New World Order (conspiracy), globalization and such things. Now they are just mentioned. - Johan, Sweden
- He is not a conspiracy theorist. He states very clearly that there are institutional structures which result in the outcomes which he highlights. He never implies a dark cabal of shadowy figures plotting to rule the world. Those who characterize his work as being conspiracy theory are using a straw man. Troyc001 13:48, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
- he does claim e.g. that al qaeda is controlled by pentagon [1], or that u.s. military received advanced warning of the 2004 tsunami, but withheld this information from asian countries [2] [3]. sounds like conspiracy theories to me. - Ktotam 16:05, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
- Rubbish. Al Quaeda is known to have been helped by the CIA and perhaps even created by the CIA during the Soviet-Afghan war. The aim was to draw the Soviets into the "Afghan trap." The CIA funded and trained militant Islamic fanatics in the hope that they would wage Jihad on the Ruskies and weaken them significantly. It's no conspiracy theory.
- Honestly folks, whether you believe him or not is not in question, but a man who has articles on his own website that posit the theory that the United States government can control the weather is clearly catagorizable as a conspiracy theorist. This is not POV, this is common sense. See [4]. I have returned the category to the article and I believes it deserves to be there unless someone can address my points. Zabby1982 21:02, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
- Rubbish. Al Quaeda is known to have been helped by the CIA and perhaps even created by the CIA during the Soviet-Afghan war. The aim was to draw the Soviets into the "Afghan trap." The CIA funded and trained militant Islamic fanatics in the hope that they would wage Jihad on the Ruskies and weaken them significantly. It's no conspiracy theory.
- he does claim e.g. that al qaeda is controlled by pentagon [1], or that u.s. military received advanced warning of the 2004 tsunami, but withheld this information from asian countries [2] [3]. sounds like conspiracy theories to me. - Ktotam 16:05, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
By the way folks: Chossudovsky is not involved in the "propagation" of alternative theories on 9/11. They get published on Global Research along with a great deal of other stuff that wasn't written by Chossudovsky or approved by him. For a real conspiracy, try checking out Chomsky's work on the "Manufacture of Consent" and the use of big media conglomerates to keep people in check. Chossudovsky's work is mild and uncontroversial when compared to real conspiracies and large scale dissemination of propaganda (anyone remember the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Information? Nope, it was NOT closed down, either, contrary to what you might think by reading only the mainstream media reports).
- That's ridiculous, of course the 9/11 articles are approved by him, as with anything else on that site, he's the editor of globalresearch.ca [5]. That's what editors do, they approve articles and manage content. Zabby1982 22:39, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Everyone who hates America says the American government is either hatching complex and dark schemes of conquest and suppression or are stumbling, silly clowns without a clue... which is it? Just pick an America that fits your hate and make it "real."
Chossudovsky does not hate America, he is one of Canada's most brillent academics who has been a contributing factor to international research in economics. He is grossly and deliberatly misrepresented to belittle his work. He was in Chile when Pinnochet took over--- in fact all his collugues, American economists teaching in Chile, started running the country's economic affairs with Pinnochet's take-over. He was also in Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia and saw first hand the truth behind what was really happening there. He is respected greatly in Europe and Asia where he is very popular in countries such as Malyasia, South Korea, and Serbia. His work on 9/11 uses offical and mainstream sources such as CNN transcripts which prove that the Bush Administration had meetings with Pakistani intelligence which was funding the 9/11 terrorists. 74.101.98.235
