"Canada's Nuttiest Professors" or ... the "Baked Dozen"

or ... "WARD CHURCHILL IS A PUSSY"

from the Western Standard's Sept. 25th '06 issue ... [free registration required]

• Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa ...
  
  "As overseer of the anti-US, anti-globalization website GlobalResearch [he] has manufactured a long list of eyebrow raising accusations that often read more like wild-eyed conspiracy theories ..... B'Nai Brith Canada has complained to the University of Ottawa about anti-Semitic postings on [his] site."

Check out the feature writers at the site.

• Sunera Thobani, Assistant Professor, Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, University of B.C. ...
  
  "Thobani was among the first outside of Gaza to revel in the murder of thousands of Americans at the hands of al Queda's killers on Sept. 11, 2001. Scant weeks afterward, she told an Ottawa feminist conference that Americans were the real terrorists .... Though Thobani hails from Tanzania - where sharia law is still practiced - she's said that we're the real misogynists, stating: "there will be no emancipation for women anywhere on this planet until the western domination of this planet is ended." "

Oh ... the irony.

• Shannon Bell, Assoc. Professor of Political Science, York University
  
  "Political science has never been this risque. But Bell doesn't exactly cover filibusters and Senate reform; try post-contemporary theory, fast feminism, sexual politics, cyberpolitics, identity politics and violent philosophy. The self-described "performance artist' holds workshops teaching the art of "female ejaculation" (also available on video for those off-campus). In 1998 she made news testifying in defence of a sado-masochist prostitute, saying such deviant behaviour was "therapeutic" and that she was an experienced dominatrix herself. In 2000, she was found by police in an illegal lesbian bathhouse. In class, Bell says she dresses provocatively to get a rise out of her students. Early in the term, for example, she usually dons over-the-top feminine outfits. "Then, around the end of October, things are getting intense in terms of their assignments.", she said. "And I move into solid leather for about a month" "

Need I say more?

• John McMurtry, Professor of Philosophy, University of Guelph
  
  "McMurtry is one of only a few Canadian academics with full membership in an organization called Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a group of conspiracy theorists who believe the George W. Bush administration staged the 2001 terrorist attacks as a pretext to implement repressive, war-oriented policies. Not that he had much use for the traders and brokers who populated the World Trade Centre to begin with; McMurtry's strong distaste for capitalism is exhibited in prolific writings ..."

He also writes at Chossudovsky's GlobalResearch.

• Shadia Drury, Canada Research Chair in Social Justice, University of Regina
  
  "Drury insists that a cabal of extreme conservatives, linked by an allegiance to the teachings of the late University of Chicago political scientist Leo Strauss, controls the White House. Parliament too, since she counts Prime Minister Stephen Harper among the neo-con clique. She's acknowledged Karl Marx as her hero because he "inspired the great reforms of the western industrialized world". ..."

She's not too impressed with Christians, either.

• Michael Keefer, Assoc. Professor of English, University of Guelph
  
  "Like his colleague McMurtry, Keefer's a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and contributing editor to Chussodovsky's GlobalResearch website. He's also a member of a left-wing network, CampusActivism that aims to empower campus radicals and "spark a powerful student movement that will fight for justice everywhere". ... [he] publicly predicted the US would launch a nuclear attack on Iran in March 2006 (we're still waiting). The outstanding defender of Venezuela's Marxist president Hugo Chavez, says the US military is guilty of "terrorist bombings" in Iraq."

This is getting boring ... they're all clones of each other. The rest are:

• Leo Panitch, Professor of Political Science, York University ... probably left of Chomsky
• Taiaiake Alfred, Indigenous Peoples Research Chair and Professor of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria ... in favour of "de-colonization" and probably requires a high-colonic.
• Kathleen Mahoney, Professor of Law, University of Calgary ... "an activist lawyer, academic and feminist ... a staunch opponent of free speech"
• Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto ... quoted as saying " "We face an ever-greater risk of synchronous failure of our social, economic and biophysical systems arising from simultaneous, interacting stresses acting powerfully at multiple levels of these global systems." Whatever that means, it sounds scary."
• Sophie Quigley, Professor of Computer Science, Ryerson University ... just a tad confused about her role.
• Joel Bakan, Professor of Law, University of B.C. ... and wannabe filmmaker ... look out Michael Moore!

It's an excellent article and the first time I've ever seen the words "left-wing hegemony" all in a row.

I'll come back to update the link once they publish on Monday.

Cross-posted