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| DATE | 2021-01-03 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] researched facts wrapped in a ball of paranoia
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More Crankbait
This is an interesting study on the fine line between ration discussion
and insanity wrapped up in compulsive and accurate academic research
https://thewalrus.ca/why-google-has-a-responsibility-to-fight-fake-news/
thewalrus.ca
Why Google Has a Responsibility to Fight Fake News
Justin Ling
11-14 minutes
Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in his hospital room by J. Edgar
Hoover and the FBI and not, as is commonly accepted, by a gunman dead
set against the civil-rights leader’s crusade. Israel has plans to annex
large swaths of Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. The American
military is dispersing heavy metals in the skies, giving the public
cancer and asthma. And of course, the World Trade Center buildings were
not brought down by commercial airliners but by controlled demolition.
Those are all uncontroversial realities for the Centre for Research on
Globalization, a Canadian-based conspiracy website run, since 2001, by
Michel Chossudovsky, professor emeritus of economics from the University
of Ottawa, who is also one of the site’s most prolific writers.
Back in 2006, the now defunct Western Standard magazine listed him as
one of Canada’s “nuttiest professors.” A year prior, B’nai Brith Canada
filed a complaint against Chossudovsky to the University of Ottawa for
the antisemitism of some of the Centre for Research on Globalization’s
online content. (The university did not comment on the complaint, and
Chossudovsky distanced himself from some of the content on the site,
which he says he did not post and does not condone.)
And yet the site is still around, at globalresearch.ca, churning out
stories. While it was once a joke, an example of Canada’s truther far
left, the Centre for Research on Globalization has now gained new
relevance, situated somewhere in the bizarre alt-right and fake-news
ecosystem that has become relevant since President Donald Trump’s rise
to power. Website-ranking service Alexa estimates that the site pulls in
roughly 1 million page views per month.
On its face, the website looks like a news site. The site bills itself
as “an independent research and media organization based in Montreal,”
featuring current events, research, videos, and a radio show. (It’s not
clear where the project gets its money, though Chossudovsky issued a
call for donations in October, citing “financial difficulties.”)But
unlike some other conspiracy and fake-news websites, Chossudovsky’s
platform, and its tens of thousands of dubious articles and blog posts,
is considered a news site by Google—meaning it attracts visitors hoping
for an update on current affairs.
There’s an array of keyword combinations that will bring
globalresearch.ca into your search results. If you were to search Google
News, the search giant’s supposedly reputable news aggregator, for “Iran
violent uprising,” the conspiracy website is at the very top of the
rankings, sometimes ahead of even the Guardian and CNN. Contrary to
mainstream news media’s coverage of the popular protests,
globalresearch.ca reported that “the violence has been agitated by
imperialist shrills who are spreading fake news that the protests are
about regime-change in Iran.”
“World Trade Center September 11 investigation,” for instance, you might
find, as I did one day, that Google lists the website on its first page
of news results, linking to a December post from Chossudovsky titled
“Moving toward a Police State (or Have We Arrived?)”
General Google search results are friendly to the site too. The top two
hits for “HAARP,” a Pentagon research project into how to improve radio
communications, are Wikipedia and globalresearch.ca, in that order.
Wikipedia actually quotes Chossudovsky’s views as an example of the
outlandish conspiracy theories about the program, saying he believes
HAARP has the “capability of triggering floods, hurricanes, droughts and
earthquakes.”
Alexa estimates that fully a third of globalresearch.ca’s traffic comes
from search engines. Google picks its news sources the same way it does
most other things: through an algorithm. To curate news results, the
algorithm singles out and prioritizes stories based on a variety of
factors, including how often they’re being shared. “As a result, stories
are sorted without regard to political viewpoint or ideology,” the
search giant says on its site. Its policies are generally pretty lax
when it comes to fake news; its guide for publishers reads: “Sites in
Google News primarily offer timely reporting or analysis of recent
events.” The guide also says, “Sites included in Google News must
not…engage in coordinated activity to mislead users.”
Nevertheless, the search giant says it reserves the right to yank a
site’s designation as a “news” outlet for “other misleading practices.”
To that end, Google is currently conducting a review of the Centre for
Research on Globalization, but the search giant is generally loath to
delist sites from its search algorithm or remove sites from its news
portal, preferring to let the technology pick the best candidates. When
asked by The Walrus about globalresearch.ca, a spokesperson for Google
said that “at this time, we do not see anything that violates our
present policies.”
It’s not as though Google has never cut out purported fake-news sites.
Infowars, the Alex Jones–fronted conspiracy-theory media site turned
nutritional-supplement vendor does not appear on Google News at all. In
the past year, Google has also tinkered with its algorithm to
de-prioritize websites it considers conspiratorial, fake, misleading, or
of lower quality, opting to boost more reputable websites instead.
Critics have cried censorship, but Google contends that ranking websites
is the very core of how its search engine works.
Google’s changes appear to have hurt globalresearch.ca. Alexa shows that
the site was among the 12,000 most-visited sites in the world as of
early 2017, but it now sits at around 24,000. Data compiled by the World
Socialist Web Site—which complains that it was also unfairly impacted by
Google’s changes—show that the Centre for Research on Globalization’s
website has seen its traffic decline some 60 percent.
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, recognized
that his company had provided a platform, and thus online legitimacy, to
sites dealing in lies and innuendo. Last November, he spoke specifically
regarding RT and Sputnik, both owned by the Russian government, which he
identified as tools to promote news that could damage the US and NATO.
Schmidt referred to their narratives as “weaponized” information.
Google’s plan for those sites isn’t to ban them entirely, it’s to
“engineer” the sites out of your feed, as Schmidt puts it. RT and
Sputnik are, after all, state-run broadcasters that, with some major
exceptions, report on real news, albeit with a heavy slant. “I am
strongly not in favour of censorship. I am very strongly in favour of
ranking. It’s what we do,” Schmidt told the Halifax International
Security Forum in November.
Chossudovsky and his outlandish views may fit into
real-news-with-a-heavy-slant category as well. He has appeared
repeatedly on Sputnik and RT, as well as on state-owned Iran’s PressTV.
He’s caught the attention of NATO’s Strategic Communications Centre of
Excellence. The Globe and Mail reported in November that the NATO centre
has been investigating whether the Centre for Research on Globalization
is part of a system used by the Russian government to sow skepticism of
the West, in part by feeding fake and misleading information into
Google. (When asked by the Globe, Chossudovsky wouldn’t confirm about
any ties he may have to the Kremlin.)
If Russia is using the Centre for Research on Globalization, via Google,
to muddy the waters, it’s not a bad strategy. In its annual “trust
barometer,” public-relations firm Edelman asked 33,000 people worldwide
about how much they trust a variety of institutions, including the
media. The study found that just 43 percent of people have faith in the
press as a whole. But when asked about individual platforms, 64 percent
said they trusted search engines—beating traditional media (57 percent),
online-only media (51 percent), and social media (41 percent.)
Much has been made about fake-news websites that were, seemingly, set up
in order to dupe unsuspecting denizens of social media into spreading
misinformation. Those sites operated in hopes of tricking Facebook users
into sharing the fake news—be it for advertising profit or for a more
sinister motive, such as sending the former host of The Celebrity
Apprentice to the White House. But there’s an argument to be made that
Google is the real front line in the fight against propaganda and
misinformation. With the focus paid in recent months to fake news and
alternative facts, the public seems to be growing wise to the fact that
not every link on their Facebook or Twitter feed can be trusted. But
when one uses Google, however, one expects a higher quality. That is,
after all, how Google has become omnipresent.
But of course, trust in institutions rests on a belief that the
institutions are acting in the public’s best interest. To that end,
companies such as Google are stuck between a rock and a hard place:
leave the suspicious sites alone, and hope people can read critically,
and they risk blending fake with real news; try to take down the sites,
or push them to the depths of the internet, and they risk spurring
claims of censorship.
The former seems like a risky proposition. An Ipsos survey from May
found that more than eight in ten Canadians thought themselves adept at
spotting fake news, but the poll also found that half of those who
participated were unable to separate real news from fake stories.
Then again, nothing would feed a mind like Chossudovsky’s more than the
world’s largest internet company taking aim at his website, chemtrails
and all.
Chossudovsky’s site already accused Google of censorship after its flow
of traffic slowed in 2017, as have the Russian state-run websites and
Infowars, among others. Ezra Levant’s far-right anti-Islam Rebel Media
ran a $300,000 crowdfunding campaign, alleging that Google-owned Youtube
was targeting conservatives through its plan to cut off advertising
revenue from some channels and remove fervently racist or violent
content from its platform altogether.
There’s undoubtedly value in Google ensuring that citizens do not
stumble on racist tirades or baseless conspiracy theories, but there is
a trade-off: protecting the confidence of users trying to find
information on the news of the day will likely hurt Google’s credibility
with those who actually believe the innuendo and nonsense peddled by
Chossudovsky and others.
That’s what’s become so hard about the fight over fake news. Even the
phrase “fake news” itself has become an issue. Craig Silverman, a
BuzzFeed editor who helped popularize the term, wrote last month: “Not
being able to focus on actual fake news is a symptom of the ongoing
collapse of a shared sense of reality and the related public
conversation.” That is, by declaring that their classification as fake
news is itself fake news, the peddlers of misinformation, propaganda,
and conspiracy are fighting back against efforts to sideline their
lunacy. It’s an outcome that we should have seen coming but didn’t.
Justin Ling
Justin Ling (-at-Justin_Ling ) is a Montreal-based freelance journalist and
author of the book Missing from the Village, which came out in September.
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On 1/3/21 6:23 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> crankbait -
> https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Globalresearch
>
> rationalwiki.org
> Globalresearch - RationalWiki
> 37-47 minutes
>
> Globally researching, globally wrong.
>
> Globalresearch is an "anti-Western" website that can't distinguish
> between serious analysis and discreditable junk — and so publishes both.
> It's basically the moonbat equivalent to Infowars or WND.
>
> While some of GlobalResearch's articles discuss legitimate humanitarian
> concerns, its view of science, economics, and geopolitics is
> conspiracist — 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 globalresearch.ca(link),
> globalresearch.org(link), globalresearch.com(link), and sister site
> mondialisation.ca(link)) is run by the Montreal-based non-profit The
> Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) founded by Michel
> Chossudovsky (1946–),[2][3] a former professor of economics at the
> University of Ottawa, Canada.[4]
>
> 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.[5]
>
> Do not confuse Globalresearch with globalnews.ca, which is a perfectly
> ordinary news site.
> What it thinks it is[edit]
>
> “”In an era of media disinformation, our focus has essentially been to
> center on the "unspoken truth".
> —True only if "unspoken" means "so embarrassingly false that nobody else
> will say it"[2]
>
> 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".[2] GlobalResearch is strongly
> anti-capitalist,[6][7] anti-imperialist,[8] and anti-globalist.[9]
> Scope[edit]
>
> Because many of its articles are reposts from other sites (and in turn
> other sites repost from GlobalResearch), it is hard to tell how popular
> GlobalResearch is. As of February 2016, GlobalResearch itself asserts
> that it has more than 6.92 million page views and more than 2.7 million
> unique visitors per month.[2] Its YouTube had over 23,000 subscribers
> and 3.4 million views[10] and its Facebook had over 279k likes as of
> April 2020.[11] Alexa ranked globalresearch.ca at 19,710th worldwide (a
> lot of traffic),[12] while globalresearch.org[13]
> globalresearch.com,[14] and mondialisation.ca[15] had virtually no traffic.
> Noted sources[edit]
>
> Globalresearch acts as both a fake news clearinghouse, and as a source
> for originally-written fake news as attributed to "Global Research
> News"[16] or "Global Research".[17] 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[18]
> Mike Adams[19]
> James Delingpole[20]
> Joseph Mercola[21]
> Gary Null[22]
> Press TV[23]
> RT[24]
> Ron Unz[25]
> Zero Hedge[26]
> Contributors to New Eastern Outlook, a Russian government-funded
> disinformation outfit[27][28]
> Oriental Review[29]
>
> Conspiracy theories[edit]
>
> Chossudovsky, giving a lecture titled "9-11: Pretext for War".[30]
>
> “”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.
> —Joachim Hagopian promoting 9/11 conspiracy theories on Globalresearch[31]
>
> 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).[32][33] 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;[34]
> Big Pharma forced the FDA to destroy homeopathy;[31]
> Big Pharma is covering up the "horrors" of "Western Medicine".[35]
>
> Anti-vaccination movement:
>
> Vaccines in general are a depopulation tactic.[36]
> Vaccines cause autism.[37][38]
> Vaccines in Kenya have been laced with sterility compounds by
> the WHO and UNICEF.[36][39][40] Bullshit, by the way.[41]
> Vaccines are toxic.[42]
> Vaccines don't work.[43][44]
> Vaccines are highly profitable.[44]
> All of the above is being covered up by Monsanto and "the
> West".[34][45]
>
> 9/11 conspiracy theories:
>
> The US did 9/11 to start a war.[31][30]
> Most Americans do know the US did it, but are unwilling to push
> for change.[46]
> Most Americans don't know the US did it, because their
> government hides the truth.[47]
> The media is suppressing the TRUTH.[48]
>
> Tiananmen Square Massacre :
>
> Tiananmen Square Massacre is a fake conspiracy theory created by
> the west. [49] (A reprint from a tankie news site.)
>
> The Middle East:
>
> The USA used nukes in both Iraq and Afghanistan.[50]
> The USA and the CIA created ISIS[51][52] and are using it as a
> "psyop" theater.[53]
> David Kelly was murdered to shush him.[54]
> 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.[55]
>
> GMFs:
>
> GMFs are poison.[56][57][58]
> GMFs are part of a depopulation conspiracy theory through
> sterilization of humankind[59]
> Monsanto:
>
> Monsanto is literally the most evil corporation.[60][61]
> Even if GMFs were fine, then Monsanto's existence would make
> them bad.[62]
>
> Zionism and the International Jewish Conspiracy:
>
> Zionists are plotting to rule everything from Cairo to Baghdad[63]
> Zionists have infiltrated and now control America.[64]
> The Holocaust is a profitable industry, which Zionists
> collaborated in causing, and which that Zionists use to push for
> Palestinian ethnic cleansing.[65]
> Zionists use American Jews to push their agenda[66]
>
> Chemtrails:
>
> Chemtrails are toxic.[67]
> Chemtrails are used for nefarious geo-engineering.[68]
>
> COVID-19 conspiracy theories:
>
> The virus came from a US lab.[69] [70] These articles has been
> promoted by the Chinese government [71][72]
>
> Genocide denialism:
>
> Bosnian genocide denialism: a hoax.[73]
> Rwandan genocide denialism: "questioning" views are totally true
> and are being suppressed.[74]
>
> HAARP is a climate-controlling weapon[75][76]
>
> Global warming is a conspiracy theory[77][78] (though some of their
> articles argue for the existence of global warming[79])
>
> Fluoridation is poison.[80][81][82]
>
> Nuke fearmongering: Fukushima is killing everything![83]
>
> The Bilderberg Group runs the world.[84]
>
> Charlie Hebdo was a false flag.[85]
>
> Just some actual headlines:
>
> North Korea, a Land of Human Achievement, Love and Joy: North
> Korea Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Victory[1](North Korea, a Land of
> Human Achievement, Love and Joy: North Korea Celebrates 60th Anniversary
> of Victory by Andre Vltchek (August 04, 2013) Dissident Voice via Global
> Research (archived from November 15, 2015).
> US Training Nazis, Western Media Providing Cover[86]
> The Complete History of Monsanto, "The World’s Most Evil
> Corporation"[60]
> Capitalism and "The Universal Religion"[87]
> "US Struggles to Keep Asia in Dark Age. US-Funded 'Newspapers'
> and 'Activists'".[88]
> "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.[89]
> Fidel Castro Ruz. His Legacy Will Live Forever (at least
> according to Fidel Castro)[90]
>
> FBI Refuses to Uncover Plot to Assassinate Occupy Leaders[edit]
>
> “”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.
> —Chussodovsky[91]
>
> This article is a truly beautiful example of the site's moonbattery.[91]
> 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.[92][93][94] In the Globalresearch world, Chussodovsky quotes:[94]
>
> An identified [DELETED] as of October planned to engage in sniper
> attacks against protestors (sic) in Houston, Texas if deemed necessary.
> An identified [DELETED] had received intelligence that indicated the
> protesters in New York and Seattle planned similar protests in Houston,
> Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, Texas. [DELETED] planned to gather
> intelligence against the leaders of the protest groups and obtain
> photographs, then formulate a plan to kill the leadership via suppressed
> sniper rifles. (Note: protests continued throughout the weekend with
> approximately 6000 persons in NYC. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests have
> spread to about half of all states in the US, over a dozen European and
> Asian cities, including protests in Cleveland (10/6-8/11) at Willard
> Park which was initially attended by hundreds of protesters.
>
>>From this, Joshua Krause, writing for Global Research, concludes:[95]
>
> As of now, we have no idea who this person is that was preparing to
> engage in these attacks, or if it even was person. For all we know it
> could have been a group of people or a state-sanctioned organization. We
> don’t know if this is information the FBI received on a suspect, or if
> this was a communication between themselves and one of their own assets.
> The language of the document certainly sounds pretty creepy. Terms like
> "if deemed necessary" and "received intelligence" have led many to
> believe that this unknown person was officially sanctioned to act by the
> government. And if that isn't true, if the FBI had just received a tip
> that a lone gunman was about to start killing peaceful protesters, what
> measures did they take to prevent that from happening? By all
> appearances, they didn’t do anything. So, best-case scenario, the
> government knew something could happen, and decided to ignore it; and
> worst-case scenario, they were playing an active role in this plot. …
>
> All this for a bunch of idealistic college kids. I will admit,
> there's a chance that we're misinterpreting these documents, but they
> sure make the FBI look insane. Like I said before, it appears that they
> were either plotting to assassinating Occupy leaders, or they were going
> to look the other way while somebody else did the deed.
>
> 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[edit]
>
> See the main article on this topic: Evil Jew
>
> Globalresearch approvingly reuses James Petras' article, which borders
> on antisemitism.[note 1] Petras writes:[66]
>
> Israel's dominant role in formulating US Middle East policy is
> largely a product of its success at recruiting, socializing and
> motivating overseas Jews to act as an organized force to intervene in US
> politics and push Israel’s agenda. What motivates American Jews, who
> have been raised and educated in the US[,] to serve Israel? […] I am
> going to focus on one – the ideology that ‘Jews are a superior people’.
> The notion that Jews, either through some genetic, biologic, cultural,
> historical, familial and/or [sic] upbringing, have[ ]special [sic]
> qualities allowing them to achieve at a uniquely higher level than the
> ‘inferior’ non-Jews.
>
> 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:[66]
>
> For centuries Jewish ‘wisdom’ was confined to textual exegesis of
> religious dogma – texts full of superstition and social control, as well
> as blind intolerance, and which produced neither reasoned arguments nor
> contributed to scientific and human advancement.
>
> 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:[66]
>
> Historically, highly talented individuals of Jewish origin succeeded
> by renouncing the constraints of everyday Jewish life, rabbinical
> overseers and Jewish institutions. Most contemporary prestigious
> scientists, including the frequently cited Nobel Prize winners, have
> little or nothing to do with Judaism! And their contributions have
> everything to do with the highly secular, integrated culture in which
> they prospered intellectually – despite expressions of crude
> anti-Semitism in the larger society.
>
> 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:[66]
>
> Jewish Supremacists persist in claiming 'racial credit' for the
> achievements of individuals who have publically[sic] renounced,
> denounced and distanced themselves from Judaism and have dismissed any
> notion of Israel as their spiritual homeland. Their universal prestige
> has prevented them from being labeled, apostate or ‘self-hating’. Albert
> Einstein, often cited by the Supremacists as the supreme example of
> ‘Jewish genius’, denounced Israel’s war crimes and showed disdain for
> any tribal identity.
>
> 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. [97]
>
> Petras continues with:[66]
>
> Supremacists compile a very selective list of virtuous Jews, while
> omitting areas of life and activity where Jews have disproportionately
> played a negative and destructive role.
>
> 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
> Jeffrey DahmerWikipedia 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".[30] In
> response, Chussodovsky argues that Globalresearch is "anti-Zionist, not
> antisemitic".[30] 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),[96] and Michel Chossudovsky claims that his
> faither supported the Palestinian cause, the Centre for Research on
> Globalization and Global Research.[98] 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?"[edit]
>
> Globalresearch asserts that most of mainstream media is ultimately
> controlled by NATO and the US government.[99]
>
> The adoption of a major piece of legislation by the US House of
> Representatives on December 4th (H. Res. 758) would provide (pending a
> vote in the Senate) a de facto green light to the US president and
> commander in chief to initiate – without congressional approval– a
> process of military confrontation with Russia. Global security is at
> stake. This historic vote –which potentially could affect the lives of
> hundreds of millions of people Worldwide– has received virtually no
> media coverage. A total media blackout prevails. … One would expect that
> this historic decision would has been the object of extensive news
> coverage. In fact what happened was a total news blackout. The nation’s
> media failed to provide coverage of the debate in House of
> Representatives and the adoption of H Res 758 on December 4. The
> mainstream media had been instructed not to cover the Congressional
> decision. Nobody dared to raise its dramatic implications. its impacts
> on “global security". "World War III is not front page news.” And
> without mainstream news concerning US-NATO war preparations, the broader
> public remains unaware of the importance of the Congressional decision.
> … Spread the word. Reverse the tide of war. Break the mainstream media
> blackout.
>
> Globalresearch is correct that no major news sources covered the
> resolution, (though the Ron Paul Institute[100] and Inquisitr[101] 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,[102] rather than putting it on "hot war footing".
> Miscellaneous Anti-Western bias[edit]
>
> 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.[103][104] 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.[105][106][107][108][109][86] 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"[110] and questions, "Is the US backing Neo-Nazis in
> Ukraine?"[111] 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."[99] Accordingly, it denies that MH-17 had anything
> to do with Russia.[105]
>
> Russian Propaganda? Conspiracy theories about GlobalResearch[edit]
>
> 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.[112] 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".[113]
>
> Fringe-ier websites have taken the same stance. Websites
> ToInformIsToInfluence[114] and MadCowNews[115] 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.
> See also[edit]
>
> Fake news
> Moonbat
> NaturalNews
> Tankies
> Truthout
>
> External links[edit]
>
> Global Research
>
> Author Index
> Most Popular Index
> Profile on Facebook
> Global Research TV on main site
> Global Research TV on YouTube
>
> See the Wikipedia article on Michel Chossudovsky.
> Decent response on Quora: "How legitimate is The Centre for Global
> Research?"
>
> Notes[edit]
>
> Jump up ↑ Michel Chossudovsky is the son of Russian-Jewish émigré
> Evgeny Chossudovsky.[96]
>
> References[edit]
>
> ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 North Korea, a Land of Human Achievement, Love
> and Joy: North Korea Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Victory by Andre
> Vltchek (August 04, 2013) Dissident Voice via GlobalResearch (archived
> from April 1, 2020).
> ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 About GlobalResearch (archived from
> May 20, 2019).
> Jump up ↑ Contact GlobalResearch (archived from April 3, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Michel Chossudovsky University of Ottawa (archived from
> March 10, 2013).
> Jump up ↑ MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist: Difference between
> revisions Wikipedia.
> Jump up ↑ Search Global Research: Capitalism[a w]. GlobalResearch.
> Jump up ↑ Capitalism and the Ebola Crisis[a w]. GlobalResearch.
> Jump up ↑ US Imperialism Wages Permanent Warfare to Prevent Its
> Inevitable Collapse[a w]. GlobalResearch.
> Jump up ↑ Search Global Research: Globalization[a w]. GlobalResearch.
> Jump up ↑ About GlobalResearchTV (Joined Nov 4, 2008) YouTube
> (archived from June 16, 2017).
> Jump up ↑ GlobalResearchCRG Facebook (archived from April 4, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ globalresearch.ca Alexa (archived from 5 Apr 2020 05:45:48
> UTC).
> Jump up ↑ globalresearch.org Alexa (archived from 5 Apr 2020
> 05:53:23 UTC).
> Jump up ↑ globalresearch.com Alexa (archived from 5 Apr 2020
> 05:54:08 UTC).
> Jump up ↑ mondialisation.ca Alexa (archived from 5 Apr 2020 05:54:30
> UTC).
> Jump up ↑ Global Research News — Archive Global Research News
> (archived from April 2, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Global Research — Archive Global Research News (archived
> from April 2, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/alex-jones
> Jump up ↑ Mike Adams — Archive Global Research News (archived from
> March 18, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ James Delingpole — Archive Global Research News (archived
> from March 18, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Dr. Joseph Mercola - Archive Global Research News
> (archived from March 18, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Dr. Gary Null - Archive Global Research News (archived
> from March 28, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Press TV — Archive Global Research News (archived from
> April 1, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ RT - Archive Global Research News (archived from April 3,
> 2020).
> Jump up ↑
> https://web.archive.org/web/20200318005542/https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/ron-unz
> Jump up ↑ Zero Hedge — Archive Global Research News (archived from
> June 8, 2017).
> Jump up ↑ Accused Russian Troll Uses a Novel Argument to Fire Back
> at Facebook: He works for a Kremlin outlet, pushing the fakest of news.
> But he insists he’s only guilty of employing a time-honored literary
> tradition. by Kevin Poulsen (Jul. 30, 2019 5:10AM ET) Daily Beast.
> Jump up ↑ Search: New_Eastern_Outlook Global Research News (archived
> from 5 Apr 2020 04:24:06 UTC).
> Jump up ↑ Oriental Review — Archive Global Research News (archived
> from March 18, 2020).
> ↑ Jump up to: 30.0 30.1 30.2 30.3 Conspiracy web site headed by
> Ottawa professor sets dangerous example for students (August 25, 2005)
> Jewish Tribune (archived from April 29, 2011).
> ↑ Jump up to: 31.0 31.1 31.2 The FDA and Big Pharma’s Latest Killer
> Agenda: Destroy Homeopathic Medicine by Joachim Hagopian (June 11, 2015)
> GlobalResearch (archived from March 18, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ "The Globalization of Poverty: Deconstructing the New
> World Order" by Michel Chossudovsky (May 17, 2017) Global Research
> (archived from March 29, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ World Bank Whistleblower Reveals How the Global Elite
> Rules the World by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog (30
> September 2013) via Global Research (February 21, 2018) (archived from
> March 29, 2020).
> ↑ Jump up to: 34.0 34.1 Australia Silences Criticism Of Vaccines,
> Benefits of Homeopathy by Brandon Turbeville (December 30, 2014)
> Activist Post via Global Research (archived from March 27, 2020.
> Jump up ↑ Ex Pharmaceutical Sales Representative Comes Clean,
> Reveals Horrors of Western Medicine by Lance Johnson (March 26, 2015)
> Natural News via Lance Johnson (archived from March 25, 2020).
> ↑ Jump up to: 36.0 36.1 "Depopulation Vaccine" in Kenya and Beyond
> by Jon Rappoport, nomorefakenews.com (10 November 2014) via Global
> Research (November 11, 2014) (archived from April 1, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Uncovering the Cover-Up: Scientific Analysis of the
> Vaccine-Autism Connection, Deeply Flawed US Vaccine Policies. by Gary
> Null (November 28, 2015) Global Research (archived from March 25, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ U.S. Media Blackout: Italian Courts Rule Vaccines Cause
> Autism by Mary Holland, Health Impact News (13 February 2015) via Global
> Research (January 04, 2016) (archived from March 27, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Is the WHO Using Vaccines to Secretly Sterilize Women All
> Over the Globe? by Michael Snyder, End of the American Dream (11
> November 2014) via Global Research (November 12, 2014) (archived from
> March 27, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ "Mass Sterilization": Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility
> Agent in UN Tetanus Vaccine by Brian Shilhavy (February 17, 2015) Health
> Impact News via Global Research (archived from March 19, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Is Tetanus Vaccine Spiked with Sterilization Chemicals?
> Catholic bishops in Kenya asserted that a tetanus vaccine campaign was
> really a secret effort to sterilize young women. by David Mikkelson
> (Published 10 November 2014; Updated 18 April 2018).
> Jump up ↑ http://www.globalresearch.ca/are-vaccines-safe/15669 Are
> Vaccines Safe? Bracing Ourselves for More Sham Vaccine Studies by
> Richard Gale & Gary Null, Progressive Radio Network and Global Research
> (13 October 2009) via Global Research (February 01, 2015) (archived from
> March 23, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ US Centers for Disease Control Issues Flu Vaccine Apology:
> This Year’s Vaccine Doesn’t Work! by Mike Adams (December 05, 2014)
> Natural News via Global Research (archived from March 27, 2020).
> ↑ Jump up to: 44.0 44.1 Mumps Being Spread by and Among Vaccinated
> People by Joseph Mercola (May 10, 2016) Mercola.com via Global Research
> (archived from March 23, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ The Vaccine Coverup: 30 Years of Secret Official
> Transcripts Show UK Government Cover Up Vaccine Hazards "To Sell More
> Vaccines And Harm Your Kids" ChildHealthSafety and Global Research 14
> March 2012) (December 02, 2014) Global Research (archived from April 1,
> 2020).
> Jump up ↑ The Walls Are Crumbling Down Around the "Official 9/11
> Story" – Why? by Jeffrey Berwick, The Daily Bell and Global Research (5
> August 2014) via Global Research (January 04, 2015) (archived from
> February 2, 2018).
> Jump up ↑ 9/11 Truth in 2014: Is a Breakthrough Possible? by Richard
> Gage & Michael Welch (March 24, 2014) Global Research (archived from
> March 27, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ "The 9/11 Attacks, 'Keeping the Lid on the Lie': Media
> Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement" by
> Elizabeth Woodworth (March 12, 2014) Global Research (archived from
> April 1, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ What Really Happened in Tiananmen Square 25 Years Ago: The
> massacre that wasn't by Brian Becker (June 04, 2014) LiberationNews.org
> via Global Research (archived from March 29, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ BREAKING: ‘US used Nukes on Iraq, Afghanistan’: Atomic
> bomb dropped on Tora Bora: Expert (1 December 2011) Press TV via Global
> Research (archived from January 29, 2018).
> Jump up ↑ America Created Al-Qaeda and the ISIS Terror Group by
> Garikai Chengu (October 28, 2019) Global Research (archived from April
> 1, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Twenty-six Things About the Islamic State
> (ISIS-ISIL-Daesh) that Obama and Trump Do Not Want You to Know About by
> Michel Chossudovsky (18 November 2014; January 12, 2020) Global Research
> (archived from March 18, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Unlimited War! ISIS Psyop Theater Comes to Full Fruition
> by Bernie Suarez February 16, 2015) Activist Post via Global Research
> (archived from March 18, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ "The Murder of Dr. David Kelly. 'A Symbol of the Blackness
> of the Tony Blair Cabal'" by David Halpin (September 05, 2013) Global
> Research (archived from March 31, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ The Real Iran Hostage Crisis: A CIA Covert Op by Harry V.
> Martin, Free America (1 July 1995) via Global Research (February 26,
> 2013) (archived from April 1, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ "Ten Scientific Studies Prove that Genetically Modified
> Food Can Be Harmful To Human Health" by Arjun Walia, Activist Post (8
> April 2014) via Global Research (March 13, 2018) (archived from March
> 29, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ GMO Soy Accumulates Carcinogenic Formaldehyde:
> Game-Changing Study GreenMedInfo (15 July 2015) via Global Research
> (July 19, 2015) (archived from March 21, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Over 40 Rodent Feeding Studies Show Genetically Modified
> Food is Disastrous to Health …Why aren't these foods labeled? by
> Christina Sarich (October 09, 2015) Natural Society via Global Research
> (archived from March 23, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) – Planned
> Sterilization of Humanity? by Peter Koenig (March 01, 2016) Global
> Research (archived from March 31, 2020).
> ↑ Jump up to: 60.0 60.1 The Complete History of Monsanto, "The
> World’s Most Evil Corporation" by E Hanzai Waking Times (22 June 2014)
> via Global Research (November 25, 2019) (archived from March 19, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
> realfarmacy.com 19 May 2013) via Global Research (July 16, 2013)
> (archived from March 22, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO): Profit, Power and
> Geopolitics by Colin Todhunter (15 December 2014; March 28, 2018) Global
> Research (archived from March 19, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ "'Greater Israel': The Zionist Plan for the Middle East"
> by Israel Shahak & Michel Chossudovsky Association of Arab-American
> University Graduates, Inc. (3 March 2013) via Global Research (February
> 04, 2020) (archived from March 17, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ "The State and Local Bases of Zionist Power in America" by
> James Petras, Dissident Voice (1 September 2010) via Global Research
> (September 03, 2010) (archived from March 25, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ Anti-Semitism: The Ultimate Zionist Weapon by William
> Hanna Dissident Voice (1 August 2014) via Global Research (August 03,
> 2014) (archived from March 25, 2020).
> ↑ Jump up to: 66.0 66.1 66.2 66.3 66.4 66.5 "The Doctrine of
> 'Superior People': The Bond between Israel and World Zionism" by James
> Petras (September 05, 2015) Global Research (archived from March 29, 2020).
> Jump up ↑ "Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical
> Aerosols on Human Health" by Ilya Sandra Perlingieri (7 May 2010; April
> 23, 2016) Global Research (archived from January 27, 2017).
> Jump up ↑ Earth Day, Geo-Engineering and Chemtrails by Michael Welch
> (April 25, 2015) Global Research (archived from March 28, 2020).
> Jump up ↑
> https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-coronavirus-shocking-update/5705196
> Jump up ↑
> https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-further-evidence-virus-originated-us/5706078
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