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No good will come from US election
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/11/2016
» Donald Trump may not win the election next week -- although he is at least going to come close -- but even if he loses, the wells are poisoned.
Mosul and Aleppo, a tale of two sieges
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/10/2016
» Two great sieges are getting under way in the Middle East, one in Mosul in Iraq and the other in Aleppo in Syria. They have a great deal in common, including the fact that the attackers both depend heavily on foreign air power, but they are treated by most international media as though they were completely different events. How similar they are will become clearer with the passage of time.
Duterte is a problem for the Philippines, not the UN
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/08/2016
» Rodrigo Duterte, the new president of the Philippines, gives good copy. Here's a quote from his final election rally: "Forget the laws on human rights. If I make it to the presidential palace, I will do just what I did as mayor. You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out. Because I'd kill you. I'll dump all of you into Manila Bay, and fatten all the fish there."
Another way of looking at the horrors of Hiroshima
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/05/2016
» Today's Hiroshima doesn't give the TV journalists a lot to work with. It's a bustling, mid-sized Japanese city with only few reminders of its destruction by an atomic bomb in 1945. There's the skeletal dome of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (which was right under the blast), and discreet plaques on various buildings saying that such-and-such a middle school, with 600 students, used to be on this site, and that's all.