Michel Chossudovsky founded the Centre for Research on Globalization in 2001, launching Global Research as its publishing arm. Chossudovsky is a former economics professor at the University of Ottawa, and the project was framed from the outset as scholarly analysis of globalization, war and geopolitics offered as a counterweight to mainstream coverage. The organisation is registered in Montreal and has operated continuously for a quarter of a century, building an archive that runs to hundreds of thousands of items. Its output is largely contributed rather than staff-reported, drawing on a wide roster of outside writers, and much of it is republished from elsewhere. The centre also runs regional offshoots, including Asia-Pacific Research, which republishes Global Research material for an Asian readership. Funding comes through reader donations and book sales rather than advertising. Today, Global Research is mainly focused on geopolitics, war and foreign policy, economics, and health and science commentary, published as a mix of contributed essays, republished pieces and archive material, from their base in Montreal, Canada. One interesting fact: The site sends more outbound traffic to a single destination than to everything else combined, and its own top competitor by audience overlap is its founder's personal Substack. A quarter-century-old organisation whose closest neighbour on the analytics is one man's newsletter.