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2016., Red Publishing Call No: 320.014 E58p Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A Propaganda System: How Government, Corporations, Media and Academia Sell War and Exploitation reveals why most Canadians believe their country is a force for good in the world, despite a long history of supporting empire, racism and exploitation. The book details the vast sums Global Affairs Canada, Veterans Affairs and the Department of National Defence spend articulating a one-sided version of Canadaœs foreign policy. With the largest PR machine in the country, the Canadian Forces promotes its worldview through a history department, university, journals, war commemorations, think tanks, academic programs and hundreds of public relations officers. A Propaganda System traces the long history of government information control during war, including formal censorship, as well as extreme media bias on topics ranging from Haiti to Palestine, investment agreements to the mining industry. The book also details the corporate eliteœs funding for university programs and think tanks.Written for ordinary Canadians interested in the structures impeding understanding of this countryœs role in the world, the book should be of interest to journalists curious about the institutions seeking to spin· them, development workers dependent on government funds and academics interested in the foreign-policy establishmentœs influence on campus.
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-- Hollywood's pact with Hitler2013., Adult, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Call No: 791.43 U72c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: To continue doing business in Germany after Hitler's ascent to power, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films that attacked the Nazis or condemned Germany's persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this bargain for the first time--a "collaboration" (Zusammenarbeit) that drew in a cast of characters ranging from notorious German political leaders such as Goebbels to Hollywood icons such as Louis B. Mayer.
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2014., Adult, 37 Ink/Atria Call No: 951.93 J33d Edition: First 37 Ink / Atria books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom. "The General will now enter the room." Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear. As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to be shattered. When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life. Never before has a member of the elite described the inner workings of this totalitarian state and its propaganda machine. An astonishing expose; told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung's escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is a rare and unprecedented insight into the world's most secretive and repressive regime"--Provided by publisher.
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2016., House of Anansi Press Call No: 920.02 M167h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Massey lectures series.Summary Note: In History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. She looks at the concept of leadership through Bismarck and the unification of Germany; William Lyon MacKenzie King and the preservation of the Canadian Federation; Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the bringing of a unified United States into the Second World War. She also notes how leaders can make huge and often destructive mistakes, as in the cases of Hitler, Stalin, and Thatcher. Richard Nixon and Samuel de Champlain are examples of daring risk-takers who stubbornly went their own ways, often in defiance of their own societies. Then there are the dreamers, explorers, and adventurers, individuals like Fanny Parkes and Elizabeth Simcoe who manage to defy or ignore the constraints of their own societies. Finally, there are the observers, such as Babur, the first Mughal emperor of India, and Victor Klemperer, a Holocaust survivor, who kept the notes and diaries that bring the past to life. History’s People is about the important and complex relationship between biography and history, individuals and their times.
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-- Inglorious Basterds[2009]., Adult, Alliance Vivafilm Call No: DVD Fic Inglourious Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph Hitler.
![Inglourious Basterds [DVD] (2009). Directed by Quentin Tarantino.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Inglourious Basterds [DVD] (2009). Directed by Quentin Tarantino.")
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2019., PublicAffairs Call No: 303.4833 P785t Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we've lost not only our grip on peace and democracy--but our very notion of what those words even mean. Peter Pomerantsev takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, "behavioral change" salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia--but the answers he finds there are not what he expected.
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-- Whole truth about the Iraq War.c2004., Disinformation Co. Call No: DVD 973.931 G795u Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
![Uncovered [DVD] (2004). Directed by Robert Greenwald. : the whole truth about the Iraq War](/Library/images/~imageCT75732.JPG "Uncovered [DVD] (2004). Directed by Robert Greenwald. : the whole truth about the Iraq War")
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-- Friends and foes.c2005., St. Clair Vision Call No: DVD 940.54 W927w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A collection of documentary films about WWII, many of them produced during the war.