• OPINION

  Widodo is not that different from Trudeau

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/09/2019

  » The news out of Indonesia this week is disturbing. In West Papua, the Indonesian-ruled half of the world's second-biggest island, New Guinea, the native people are definitely restive. Some 1.8 million of them, 70% of West Papua's native population, signed a petition demanding the right to self-determination last year, and now much of the island is in revolt.

• OPINION

  The democratisation of airpower

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/09/2019

  » Big shifts in the military balance happen quietly over many years, and then leap suddenly into focus when the shooting starts.

• OPINION

  Whodunnit? Blame always goes to Iran

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/09/2019

  » US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dismissed the Houthi claim that the Yemeni rebel group had carried out Saturday's strike on two huge Saudi Arabian oil processing facilities. There was "no evidence" that the drones belonged to the Houthis, he said. Instead, he blamed Iran.

• OPINION

  Netanyahu has nearly finished his grim mission

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/09/2019

  » Benjamin Netanyahu's work is almost done. If he wins tomorrow's election and forms yet another government (he is now the longest-serving Israeli prime minister), he will put a stake through the heart of the "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that was born in the 1993 Oslo peace accords. Hamas should send him a gold watch for long service.

• 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

  Three small victories in Europe: A turning point?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/09/2019

  » Have we reached peak fascist in Europe? Well, all right then, peak hard-right nationalist, but are we there yet? That would be reassuring, and three events in the past week give some cause for hope.

• OPINION

  Proroguing parliament was Johnson's only option

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/08/2019

  » Shock! Horror! Johnson prorogues Parliament! End of democracy in Britain! The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, says he was not even consulted, and calls it "a constitutional outrage".

• OPINION

  How to solve two converging crises

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/08/2019

  » Maybe we can get through the climate crisis without a global catastrophe, although that door is closing fast. And maybe we can cope with the huge loss of jobs caused by the revolution in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) without a social and political calamity.

• OPINION

  Greenland's big gamble on Chinese mining

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/08/2019

  » From his purchase of New Jersey casinos to his proposed acquisition of Greenland, Donald Trump's real estate deals have always been plagued by bad timing. The United States could probably have bought Greenland from Denmark in 1917, but he's a century too late now.

• OPINION

  Treachery reigns supreme in the Middle East

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/08/2019

  » Things have got so complicated in the Middle East that the players are no longer just stabbing each other in the back. They are stabbing each other in the chest, in the groin, behind the left ear -- anywhere that comes to hand. Friends and allies one day are targets and enemies the next.

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