New Michel Chossudovsky Interview.

Joel Garduce has published a new interview with Michel Chossudovsky in Bulatlat, an alternative weekly online magazine based in the Philippines. Chossudovsky is one of the earliest and most vocal critics of the "official story" of 9/11, and has lectured and written exhaustively on the topic. Here is an excerpt from the interview;

JPG: Your research goes against the thesis of some thinkers like Noam Chomsky that 9/11 is principally a blowback operation. How would you look at these views?

MC: Those views are totally incorrect. The blowback assumes that the relationship between al-Qaeda and the U.S. government intelligence ceased in the wake of the Cold War. Because that's what they say.

They say we created al-Qaeda during the Soviet-Afghan war. We trained the mujahideen, we helped them in fighting the Soviet Union. And in the wake of the Cold War, al-Qaeda has gone against us. And that's what's called the blowback. Blowback is when an intelligence asset goes against its sponsors.

That viewpoint I say is incorrect because in the course of the 1990s there's ample evidence of links between al-Qaeda and the U.S. administration, during the Clinton administration as well as the Bush administration, leading up in fact to 2001. There's evidence of active collaboration between al-Qaeda paramilitary groups in the Balkans and senior U.S. military advisers.

I think that that view is mistaken, whether it emanates from the Left or from other quarters. It is totally mistaken and it is very misleading because it really provides legitimacy to the war on terrorism. It essentially says yes, the war on terrorism is a legitimate objective of U.S. foreign policy. And either they are mistaken or they are involved in media disinformation.

This slightly older interview broadcast on Bonnie Faulkner's Guns and Butter in 3 parts over January and February of this year is an excellent summation of his worldview, (RealPlayer stream), "The War on Terrorism" Part One, Part Two, Part Three. Chossudovsky also spoke at the Perdana Global Peace Forum session in June. (You will need to use Explorer to watch video.)