Gwynne Dyer

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Gwynne Dyer
Gwynne Dyer in an undated promotional photograph.[1]
Born	April 17, 1943 St. John's, Newfoundland
Occupation	journalist

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 PhD 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.

Contents 1 Views 2 Circulation 3 References 4 Works 4.1 Books 4.2 Documentaries 4.3 Radio series 5 External links

[edit] Views

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Dyer's thinking does not fall into conventional categories of right and left. Partially informed by his extensive experience working as a journalist in the former Soviet Union, he favours free markets.^[2] On the other hand, he is a strong supporter of the goals of the Kyoto Protocol and has admonished Western governments for not giving it their full support.^[3][4] Dyer's perspective on world affairs has a distinctly internationalist cast. ^[5] In his column he often writes about events in countries that are seldom discussed in mainstream media. He has been a harsh critic of American foreign policy, once writing for example that "the United States needs to lose the war in Iraq as soon as possible" ^[6] and more recently that "[t]he US was deeply involved in all of Saddam's major crimes" ^[7].

[edit] Circulation

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^[8], such as Kamloops This Week, the Hamilton Spectator and Edmonton's Vue Weekly as well as the Sun Media Group. He is also published globally by Arab News^[9] and Al-Jazeerah.info. Older articles are available online at the columnist's official website.

[edit] References

[edit] Works

[edit] Books

• War: The Lethal Custom (1985) ISBN 0-7867-1538-3
• The Defence of Canada: In the Arms of the Empire (1990) ISBN 0-7710-2975-6
• Ignorant Armies: Sliding Into War in Iraq (2003) ISBN 0-7710-2977-2
• Future: Tense : The Coming World Order (2004) ISBN 0-7710-2978-0
• With Every Mistake (2005) ISBN 0-679-31402-4

[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

• Official Website
• Profile