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The Korean rhetoric and its reality
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/09/2016
» Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said that North Korea was the "neighbourhod outlaw" after Pyongyang's fifth nuclear weapons test on Friday. Barack Obama said that "The United States does not, and never will, accept North Korea as a nuclear state". Even China voiced its "firm opposition to the test". And South Korea's president, Park Gyeung-hye, accused North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong-un of "maniacal recklessness".
Is 2016 the new 1936?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/08/2016
» Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce -- Karl Marx, 1852.
Imagination: President Trump in power
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/07/2016
» Let us suppose that it is July 2017. Let us suppose that Donald Trump, nominated as the Republican candidate for the US presidency exactly a year ago, won the November election -- quite narrowly, perhaps, but the polls are certainly suggesting that such a thing is possible. So he was inaugurated six months ago, and has started to put his campaign promises into effect.
Russia was right about Syria conflict
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/05/2016
» 'The Russians had a more realistic analysis of the situation than practically anybody else," said Lakhdar Brahimi, the former UN Special Envoy to Syria. "Everyone should have listened to the Russians a little bit more than they did."
Migrants, euro, Brexit: the EU at risk
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/04/2016
» A recent headline in the leading French newspaper Le Monde said it all: "Migrants, the Euro, Brexit: The European Union is mortal." And it's true. The EU could actually collapse over these three threats.
Why Turkey shot down the Russian plane in a heartbeat
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/11/2015
» The key fact is that the Russian plane, by Turkey's own admission, was in Turkish airspace for precisely seventeen seconds. That's a little less time than it takes to read this paragraph aloud. The Turks shot it down anyway -- and their allies publicly backed them, as loyal allies must.