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Space 2018: Better to go back out late rather than never
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/01/2018
» It's going to be a good year in space, and the new players are aiming high. The Indian Space Research Organisation intends to send Chandrayaan-2, an uncrewed orbiter, lander and rover, to the moon in March.
The rise of Islamic State: Is it over?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/12/2017
» Late last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin met the leaders of Iran, Turkey and Syria, allegedly to discuss a final peace settlement in the Syrian civil war. On Monday he was in Syria to announce a partial withdrawal of Russian troops from the country because they had inflicted a "total rout" on the jihadist militants of the Islamic State (IS). Is the war really over?
Is Trump twigging to 'rational accommodationism'?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/12/2017
» Here we go again. Whenever North Korea launches a new long-range missile or does another nuclear test, US President Donald Trump condemns the test and warns Pyongyang not to do it again, while his generals and diplomats point out that it "threatens the entire world". But latterly, the pattern has been evolving.
Next Middle East war set for Lebanon
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/11/2017
» 'When all the Arabs and the Israelis agree on one thing, people should pay attention. We should stop this Iranian takeover," said Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month. So we're paying attention now, and we even know where the next war will start: Lebanon.
Why China won't budge on N Korea
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/11/2017
» Over the next few days, Donald Trump will be visiting the leaders of Japan, South Korea and China, and the same topic will dominate all three conversations: North Korea. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in will be looking for reassurance that the United States will protect them from North Korea's nuclear weapons, but in Beijing Mr Trump will be the supplicant.
Adult supervision a tricky business at the White House
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/10/2017
» Here's the scenario. Late one evening Donald Trump is watching Fox News and a report comes on that North Korea is planning to launch a missile that can reach the United States. (Kim Jong-un's regime has said it is going to do that one of these days -- but only as a test flight landing in the ocean somewhere, not as an attack.)
Russian victory reuniting Syria under Assad's rule
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/09/2017
» Two years ago this month, the Russian air force was sent in to save the tottering Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad from collapse. The air was thick with Western predictions that Moscow had made a dreadful mistake.
Climate change creeps up on us all
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/09/2017
» At least a decade ago, a retired general at the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies said to me that the rich countries will never take climate change seriously until some very big and apparently climate-related disaster happens in a first-world country. Hurricane Harvey was not that disaster.
Applying a sense of proportion to acts of terrorism
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/08/2017
» London in March: five dead. Stockholm in April: another five dead. Manchester in May: 22 dead. London again in June, this time on London Bridge: eight dead. Barcelona in August: 14 dead. Five mass-casualty terrorist attacks in Europe in six months, and all but one (Manchester) carried out using rental trucks. Is it safe to go to Europe any more?
Still not a smoking gun
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/07/2017
» Like the diligent journalist I am, I went online within minutes of the news that Donald Trump Jr had put "incriminating" emails about his meeting with Russian lawyer and lobbyist Natalia Veselnitskaya on Twitter. I opened the Washington Post site and there, nestled between the paragraphs of their lead story on Mr Trump Jr, was an ad for a box set of The Walking Dead. And I thought ...