No more “Iran experts”, but U of T still a training ground for empire

A tiny bit of good news: U of T media relations have taken the “Iran experts” page off their website. Of course, this doesn’t mean people like Aurel Braun won’t continue to use their titles as U of T professors to authorize their fear-mongering and urgings towards another Mideast war.

U of T’s war lobby will take hard work to dismantle. The ascendant Munk School of Global Affairs, created by secret agreement between the U of T leadership and mining baron Peter Munk, has been stocking its faculty with military-friendly scholars teaching students about how to govern the “global system”. Students in the new Master’s in Global Affairs program get to take fun courses such as “Understanding National, Transnational and Global Security Threats” taught by Linda Goldthorp – on leave from her job as Director of Intelligence Production at Canada’s Department of Defence. It is worth noting that students in other programs are barred from taking these courses, presumably to keep critical voices from disrupting the formation of imperial imaginaries in the next generation of elite technocrats.