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Shared delusions of Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 23/11/2018
» "It's a suffering tape, it's a terrible tape," the Snowflake-in-Chief told Fox News on Sunday, defending his refusal to listen to the recording of journalist Jamal Khashoggi being murdered and sawn into pieces in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on Oct 2. "I know everything that went on in the tape without having to hear it. It was very violent, very vicious and terrible."
Saudi Arabia is a populist dictatorship
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/06/2018
» Joy and pride among Saudi women who are at last allowed to drive. Delight in the car dealerships that anticipate a lot of new business. And dismay in the families of the 1.4 million chauffeurs, almost all from South Asia, who have been earning around US$1,000 (32,960 baht) a month driving Saudi women around. But it will take a lot more than this to change Saudi Arabia.
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.
Balfour Declaration and 100 years of bloody conflict
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/10/2017
» One hundred years ago next week, in the midst of WWI, the British government sent a letter known as the Balfour Declaration that led, three decades later, to the creation of the state of Israel.
Dial back on the rhetoric to deal with N Korea's nukes
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/09/2017
» The last time when North Korean nuclear weapons might have been headed off by diplomacy was 15-20 years ago, when there was a deal freezing North Korean work on nuclear weapons, and then one stopping the country's work on long-range ballistic missiles.
May's mess: 'Soft' Brexit or no Brexit
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/06/2017
» 'We don't know when Brexit talks start. We know when they must end," tweeted Donald Tusk, former Polish prime minister and now president of the European Council.
Trump carries on US tradition of abandoning pacts
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/06/2017
» It's not just Donald Trump. The United States has a long record of negotiating international agreements and then running away from them. The rest of the world has an equally long record of heaving a sigh of regret, telling the Americans it will be happy to have them back when they get over it, and carrying on without them. It will do it again over the Paris accord on climate change.
Universal basic income still in 'experimental' stage
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/04/2017
» In Switzerland last June, they had a referendum on a universal basic income that would have given each adult Swiss citizen US$2,500 (86,450 baht) per month. It would have gone to everybody whether they were working or not and the horrified Swiss rejected it by a majority of more than three-to-one.
The worsening settlement quagmire
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/12/2016
» Israel's Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is very cross about last Friday's United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the creation of illegal Jewish settlements all over the occupied West Bank and in East Jerusalem.
The US and Russia agree on Syria
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/08/2016
» Great states hate to admit error, so when they have to change course they generally try to disguise the fact. That's why you may not have heard much about the way that the United States has changed course in Syria in the past three months.