Tuesday, 7 April 2009



In this lecture given by Michel Chossudovsky in 2003, in the early years of the neoconservative Bush administration and the war on terror, he blows away the smokescreen put up by the mainstream media, that 9/11 was an attack on the US by "Islamic terrorists". As this speech is a few years old, we should of course add to it what we know happened afterwards. Through meticulous research, he has uncovered both a military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11 attacks, and a cover-up and complicity of key members of the Bush Administration. According to Chossudovsky, the "war on terrorism" is a complete fabrication based on the illusion that one man, Osama bin Laden, outwitted the $40 billion-a-year American intelligence apparatus. But Chossudovsky does not fit the stereotype of 'truthers' who do nothing else then meticulously going over the details of the events of 9/11. In stead, he puts 9/11 in a wider context of geopolitics, one that allows insight in the shadow side of actual states. In this lecture, he argues that the "war on terrorism" is a war of conquest. Globalisation is the final march to a "New World Order", dominated by Wall Street and the U.S. military-industrial complex. September 11, 2001 provides a justification for waging a war without borders. Washington's agenda consists in extending the frontiers of the American Empire to facilitate complete U.S. corporate control, while installing within America the institutions of the Homeland Security State.

Michel Chossudovsky is currently professor of economics at the Universtiy of Ottawa. He has taught as visiting professor at academic institutions in Western Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia, has acted as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has worked as a consultant for international organizations including the United Nations Development Programme, the African Development Bank, the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning, the United Nations Population Fund, the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organisation, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. In 1999, Chossudovsky joined the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research as an adviser. Chossudovsky is the past president of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He is a member of research organisations that include the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform, the Geopolitical Drug Watch and the International People's Health Council. He is an active member of the anti-war movement in Canada, and has written extensively on the war in Yugoslavia. After the September 11 terrorist attacks he has also been involved in highlighting the historical relationship between the US government, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. He is a frequent contributor to Le Monde diplomatique, Third World Resurgence and Covert Action Quarterly. His publications have been translated into more than twenty languages. His latest book is titled America's "War on Terrorism".

War and Globalisation and other books by Michel Chossudovsky

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