• OPINION

  Killing Darya Dugina: Ukraine own-goal?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/08/2022

  » 'Iam a political observer of the International Eurasianist Movement and an expert in international relations. In this capacity, I appear on Russian, Pakistani, Turkish, Chinese and Indian television channels. The situation in Ukraine is really an example of a clash of civilisations; it can be seen as a clash between globalist and Eurasian civilisation."

• OPINION

  In Iran, all options to curb crisis are bad

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/10/2022

  » 'Death to [fill in the blank]!" has been the slogan of choice chanted by Iranian protesters since the glory days of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. ("Death to the Shah!", "Death to America!", etc) It's now forty-three years later, however, and the content has become a bit more nuanced.

• OPINION

  Climates of fear lead to 'shoot-downs'

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/01/2020

  » One of the main causes of death for airline passengers in recent decades is being shot down by somebody's military. Not the very biggest, of course: accidents account for nine-tenths of all deaths in civilian airline crashes, and terrorist attacks and hijackings cause most of the rest. But a solid 2.5% of the deaths are due to trigger-happy people in military uniforms.

• OPINION

  Of plagues, genocides and the coronavirus

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/07/2020

  » Last Sunday in the city of Baltimore, they tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the harbour.

• OPINION

  This climate of doom may be unscientific

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/09/2019

  » Jonathan Franzen has finally seen the light. Unfortunately, it has blinded him.

• OPINION

  Wreath gaffe puts Corbyn in hot water

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/08/2018

  » It sounds like a tempest in a teapot, but it could bring down Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Labour Party -- and that could end up meaning that Britain doesn't leave the European Union after all.

• OPINION

  Only the poor end up dying screaming

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/01/2018

  » If you had a million dollars to spend (but not on yourself), where would it do the most good? Well, the cost to cover morphine or a morphine-equivalent pain relief treatment for all the sick children younger than 15 years who are in really serious pain in low-income countries would be just $1 million (33.4 million baht) per year. About half of them of those children are going to die, but with morphine at least they wouldn't die screaming.

• OPINION

  Silly buggers: Russia, US play chicken

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 23/06/2017

  » I don't remember which navy I was in when I first heard the term "silly buggers", but the meaning was clear. It included some sensible exercises like "man overboard" drills, but the heart and soul of the game was high-speed manoeuvres by ships travelling in close company. These sometimes got quite exciting, because ships don't have brakes.

• OPINION

  Philippine insurgency stems from lack of compromise

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/06/2017

  » A month ago, hardly anybody outside the Philippines had ever heard of Marawi. Now it's the latest front in the war against the Islamic State (IS). More evidence, if you needed it, that the terrorism associated with the IS will go on long after Mosul and Raqqa have been liberated and "Caliph Ibrahim" (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi) has been killed or captured.

• OPINION

  Democracy survives crucial test in Senegal

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/04/2024

  » The crisis in Senegal, the one country in West Africa that has never had a military coup, has passed. Few people outside Africa were paying close attention to it, but I'm sure you will be pleased to know that democracy has survived.

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