Articles tagged with: politics
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The Washington Post’s David Finkel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, discusses his new book, the already highly regarded and well-reviewed The Good Soldiers (Douglas & McIntyre, 2009), with Joseph Planta; a powerful book that follows United States Army soldiers between January 2007 to June 2008, who go to Iraq as part of President Bush’s surge.
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SFU communications professor Donald Gutstein discusses his book Not a Conspiracy Theory: How Business Propaganda Hijacks Democracy (Key Porter, 2009), with Joseph Planta; highlighting some of the notable think tanks in Canada and their relationships with big business, and just how they in turn influence what’s reported in the media.
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The author and journalist, editor of BC Bookworld Alan Twigg, discusses his new book Tibetans in Exile: The Dalai Lama and the Woodcocks (Ronsdale Press, 2009), the story behind George ang Ingeborg Woodcock and their founding of the Tibetan Refugee Aid Society and Canada India Village Aid after meeting the Dalai Lama in 1961.
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Simon Fraser University criminologist Neil Boyd discusses the book he’s co-authored with Larry Campbell and Lori Culbert, A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future (Greystone, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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James Hoggan of the PR firm Hoggan and Associates talks about his new book (co-written with Richard Littlemore), Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming (Greystone, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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The author and poet Karen Connelly talks to Joseph Planta about her new memoir, Burmese Lessons: A Love Story (Doubleday, 2009). Amidst the military dictatorship in Burma, Connelly has a love affair with a young revolutionary named Maung, which is discussed, as well as Connelly’s writing process, and prize winning.
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Michael Byers, UBC professor of global politics and international law and bestselling author (Intent for a Nation: What is Canada For?) discusses his new book Who Owns the Arctic? Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North (Douglas & McIntyre, 2009), with Joseph Planta; other than the politics and issues of Arctic sovereignty, they also discuss whether Byers will run federally again.
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The award-winning Public Eye Online journalist Sean Holman, joins Joseph Planta from Victoria, to discuss investigative journalism, the HST, Jessica McDonald, and more.
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The director of communications for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former Newsweek correspondent Michael Meyer discusses his new book, The Year that Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Scribner, 2009), with Joseph Planta; they talk about the events in eastern Europe twenty years ago in Hungary and throughout the communist bloc that led to the fall of the Wall, Romania and the Ceausescu’s, and the lessons we can apply to today.
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Political pundit (www.strategicthoughts.com) and former NDP advisor, David Schreck returns to the program to discuss, with Joseph Planta, BC politics, the HST, the leadership of Carole James and Gordon Campbell, and whether there’ll be a federal election.
