Dr. Chossudovsky is a Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa. Chossudovsky has been a visiting professor internationally, and has been an advisor to governments of developing countries. In 1999, He joined the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research as an adviser. He is a signatory of the Kuala Lumpur Declaration to Criminalize War. He is the author of The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003) and America's "War on Terrorism" (2005) and Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011). He’s also written and published numerous articles and made countless number of critical papers on the global economic and geopolitical issues around the world. Most importantly the Global Research (Center for Research on Globalization at http://www.globalresearch.ca/ ) he founded in September 2001 has become one of the leading alternative news media in North America. According to Alexa, the web ranking agency, Global Research is ranked among the top 18,000 most popular websites Worldwide, out of a worldwide total of more than 150 million websites.  It is among the top 10,000 websites (all categories) in the US. Moreover, Global Research articles are also published on more than fifty alternative media sites and blog sites. Global Research is ranked by Alexa as the Number One Site in the Globalization category. It is among the top thirty in the Politics category More than 2.6 million hits (page views), 1.2 million visits and over 700,000 ”unique visitors” per month on globalresearch.ca (Google Diagnostics, November 2011).