Gwynne Dyer

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Gwynne Dyer, Ph.D , MA , BA (born April 17, 1943) is a London-based independent Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian.

He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and joined the Royal Canadian Navy at the age of sixteen. While still in the navy, he obtained a BA in History from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1963; an MA in Military History from Rice University, Houston, Texas, in 1966; and a Ph.D in Military and Middle Eastern History at King's College London in 1973. Dyer served in the Canadian, American and British navies. He was employed as a Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 1973-77. In 1973 he began writing articles for leading London newspapers on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and soon decided to abandon academic life for a full-time career in journalism.

Dyer's twice-weekly column on international affairs is published by 175 papers in 45 countries and is translated into more than a dozen languages. The most frequent subjects of the column are international military and political affairs and, more recently, the environment. His language is pithy, critical and often ironical.

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[edit] Criticism

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Dyer's column was blacklisted by Canadian newspaper conglomerates Canwest Global and Hollinger International (formerly owned by Conrad Black)[citation needed], with the result that Dyer's column has recently been available in his native country only in independently owned newspapers and the large national Black Press[1], such as Kamloops This Week, the Hamilton Spectator and Edmonton's Vue Weekly. He is also published globally by Arab News[2] and Al-Jazeerah.info. Older articles are available online at the columnist's official website.

[edit] Works

[edit] Books

[edit] Documentaries

  • Anybody's Son Will Do (1983)
  • War (1983)
  • The Defence of Canada (1986)
  • The Space Between (1986)
  • Harder Than It Looks (1987)
  • The Human Race (1994)

[edit] Radio series

  • Seven Faces of Communism (1978)
  • Brazil (1979)
  • The Catholic Counter-Revolution (1980)
  • War (1981)
  • The Gorbachev Revolution (1988-90)
  • Millennium (1996)

[edit] External links

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