Best canadian politics books according to redditors
We found 72 Reddit comments discussing the best canadian politics books. We ranked the 29 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 72 Reddit comments discussing the best canadian politics books. We ranked the 29 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening.
This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY
Science on reasoning, reason doesn't work the way we thought it did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY
The real news:
http://therealnews.com/t2/
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/r
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/
Look at the following graphs:
IMGUR link - http://imgur.com/a/FShfb
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/images/wealth/Actual_estimated_ideal_wealth_distribution.gif
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/images/wealth/Net_worth_and_financial_wealth.gif
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
And then...
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnkNKipiiiM
Free markets?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/
"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.
In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."
Important history:
http://williamblum.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcA1v2n7WW4
Canada used to contribute a lot of peacekeeping troops. Not surprising as it was a Canadian idea. We have sent something like 125,000 soldiers on UN missions, losing 115, the 2nd highest fatality rate. Lately we have been so busy supporting Afghanistan for 13 years now that we only have a couple hundred deployed.
There was as mentioned here a lot of political restrictions and situations where the UN didn't understand what was going on that lead to tragedy. I think overall that peacekeepers have been beneficial. The UN demining efforts, humanitarian aid, reconstruction and military observers supported by peacekeepers have been beneficial. There is of course always controversy like the failures in Bosnia and Rwanda. I feel that these were political in nature rather than a failure of the peacekeepers themselves. But I think the balance is still strongly on favour of them being beneficial.
http://www.unac.org/peacekeeping/en/un-peacekeeping/fact-sheets/canadian-participation-in-un-peacekeepinga-chro/
http://peacemagazine.org/archive/v22n3p15.htm
Some good books on the subject:
http://www.amazon.ca/Sharp-End-Canadian-Soldiers-Story/dp/1550545884
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion,_the_Fox_%26_the_Eagle
http://books.google.ca/books/about/Balkan_Odyssey.html?id=enMHAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/caj/documents/vol_13/iss_1/CAJ_vol13.1_17_e.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_Hands_with_the_Devil_%28book%29
Shake Hands With the Devil is a very hard book to read. I put it away several times. There is also a movie about the book and Hotel Rwanda is loosely based on the story as well. Granted the UN allowed the slaughter of hundreds of thousands. However I think the fault is more that of national governments involved. The UN peacekeepers on the ground actually refused orders to abandon Kigali. They didn't have enough ammunition to defend themselves, but 500 of them stayed and protected 30,000 Rwandans with their lives. They stayed knowing that the the militias could kill them all at any moment, but feared to do so because the international community would be outraged. But by that point the peacekeepers would be dead. So I think the blame should be placed where it belongs on the security council rather than on the peacekeepers themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBPQOT81Vao
i was thinking of saying the same as well. we may be more socially progressive (debatable because USA is a big place) but i think on the whole we are more conservative in our management of social institutions like the legislature, banks, etc.
edit: funny that this appears to be a controversial comment. just theorizing and starting a conversation, didn't make any value judgements! here is an interesting book on the subject:
https://www.amazon.ca/Continental-Divide-Values-Institutions-United/dp/0415903858/
Pierre Bourdieu's The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power, http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=2045
Henry A. Giroux, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/633:higher-education-under-attack-an-interview-with-henry-a-giroux
Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education https://www.amazon.com/Neoliberalisms-Higher-Education-Henry-Giroux/dp/1608463346/ref=pd_sim_14_11?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=296G8BV2FQK2GQNS3SVV
https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Resistance-Education-Pedagogy-Opposition/dp/089789796X/ref=pd_sim_14_10?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=T3QMZTXP4N8FHDNVXMTF
Charles Reitz: http://www.heathwoodpress.com/work-wealth-and-war-recalling-herbert-marcuses-critical-pedagogy/
http://www.heathwoodpress.com/decommodification-liberation-education-commonwealth-as-aesthetic-form-of-an-alienation-free-society/
Hey, I'm just as mad about the 40billion LNG facility. We absolutely shouldn't be building at either. It's hypocritical as hell and I hope Horgan and the NDP gets called out for it, hard.
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It's sad that Albertans are the ones "taking the hit", but the reality is that they've build their entire economy around the industry that's causing the problem. That's something that's been going on in Alberta for decades, organized by fossil fuel companies that KNEW that this was going to happen, but didn't care what effect it would have on Albertans when this was all going to come crashing down. They were looking out for themselves and their bank accounts, and they've had a great few decades milking Alberta of it's wealth and setting them up for failure.
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Don't be mad at BC. Don't be mad at other Canadians trying to get our country to meet it's climate commitments and responsibilities. Be mad at folks like oil lobbyist Bruce Carson, and the folks at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and other big oil lobbyists who caused this problem for Alberta.
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If you're interested in seeing how brutally the oil industry has fucked up the prosperity of Albertans, and drained the province of it's wealth and set it up for failure, check out:
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Oil's Deep State by the former Alberta Liberal leader Kevin Taft
After the Sands by Gordon Laxer, founder of the Parkland Institute in Alberta
The Big Stall by Donald Gutstein, SFU Professor, teaching issues of news media and propaganda analysis
For a decent online overview, this does nicely. If you care to spend a bit of money or go to a library textbooks like Bickerton or Dyck will help further.
They missed out on Ultimatum and Exxoneration.
Also, check out Bordering on Aggression for a take on Fort Drum.
> Origins of Political Order[1] , Francis Fukuyama
Seconded.
My list would include:
Not so much related directly involved with Canadian politics, but still relevant:
I will also be picking up Lord Black's new book on American foreign policy, [Flight of the Eagle] (http://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780771013713/conrad-black/flight-eagle#.UZ_eWLXvuSo), for some summer reading.
Textbook used in most university Canadian politics 101 classes.
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656
You think Tom Englehardt is some lunatic conspiracy theorist too? Looks like it's time for you to shut the fuck up and educate yourself.
http://www.amazon.com/Continental-Divide-Values-Institutions-United/dp/0415903858
https://www.amazon.ca/Bordering-aggression-Evidence-military-preparations/dp/0921842090
Here is a short reading list that should give you the essentials:
Some of these will read like stories, others are more academic in nature. There is both Canadian and American material included. overall, you should get a pretty good impression of how political campaigns are planned and how they actually roll out.
Last Video Game: Super Smash Bros. Melee, as Kirby = not good strength. except for kicking people upwards.
Last Movie I watched: Our school has a spring Porno...so...Walter White, porn version. He has Cancer...so not good.
Last Book I read was Will War Ever End? which is a nonfiction book about a soldier's time in the army and whether it's possible for humans to be non-violent. So I can shoot well, and courageous. Oh, and good at philosophy and writing I guess.
My opponent gets the strength of either Iraq, or War...so OP.
My opponent gets the speed of a governor who bans pornography. But he's a porn character so he's not out of shape.
My opponent gets the power of Master Hand so...so OP.
Anybody see any version of this where I win?
https://www.amazon.ca/Democracy-Alberta-Social-Credit-System/dp/1442615753
https://www.amazon.ca/Notley-Nation-Albertas-Political-Upheaval/dp/1459736036
https://www.amazon.ca/Patch-People-Pipelines-Politics-Sands/dp/150111509X
The following is an excellent Canadian Politics 101 textbook that covers all the basics and is used at several Canadian Universities. It's affordable too.
http://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-Politics-Fifth-Edition-Bickerton/dp/1442601213
*Apparently there's a sixth edition out now.
http://www.utppublishing.com/Canadian-Politics-Sixth-Edition.html
What do you make of this book?
https://www.amazon.ca/After-Sands-Ecological-Security-Canadians/dp/1771621001
I wrote a book about Kathleen Wynne. I published it on Amazon this week. I'm beside myself with excitement. Check it out! :)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1520847777
> Yeah, it's counter-intuitive. Why would you go against consumers this way?
You're not seeing the larger picture.... this isn't about consumers, this is about control of world markets. You're missing the larger historical context, the NSA is all about control and management of information for corporate profits.
Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening.
This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY
Science on reasoning, reason doesn't work the way we thought it did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY
The real news:
http://therealnews.com/t2/
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/r
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/
Look at the following graphs:
IMGUR link - http://imgur.com/a/FShfb
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
And then...
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnkNKipiiiM
Free markets?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/
"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.
In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."
Important history:
http://williamblum.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcA1v2n7WW4
Here's a law suggestion, specifically about our constitution and form of government, which also touches on our culture and history: a collection of essays called The Evolving Canadian Crown.
If the incompetence of a regional government overseeing a population <5M is noteworthy to the extent of a book deal "A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC" for two political reporter co-authors, the exercise of ranking their blunders seems to miss the point.
https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Citizen-Make-Politics-Work/dp/1771085312
Also here is a book about Canadian foreign policy and canadian mining companies fucking up communities everywhere. https://www.amazon.ca/Ugly-Canadian-Yves-Engler/dp/1552665305
I'm not trying to be hyperbolic. See also:
Henry Giroux on Zombie Politics
His website
Public Humanities at Western present: Henry Giroux
Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education Henry Giroux
Links to topics mentioned can be found at Majority Report Geek Wonk
Besides my own experience with unemployment, crippling medical bills and watching everyone around me lose their ability to provide for themselves (which is not empirical) I have read some reports from seemingly reliable news sources.
This,
and this,
There are even books about it by reputable authors.
These are all opinions of the respective authors, but it doesn't seem to be a fringe opinion.