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Trump and the last stand of the US Christians
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/07/2024
» The past week has been a roller-coaster ride for Donald Trump.
Democracy survives crucial test in Senegal
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/04/2024
» The crisis in Senegal, the one country in West Africa that has never had a military coup, has passed. Few people outside Africa were paying close attention to it, but I'm sure you will be pleased to know that democracy has survived.
Nuke deal is dead! Long live deterrence!
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/12/2021
» 'We reviewed the proposals ... carefully and thoroughly and concluded that Iran violated almost all compromises found previously in months of hard negotiations," said the German Foreign Ministry spokesman on Sunday. As a funeral oration, it lacked in elegance, but it did the job: the 2015 treaty curbing Iran's nuclear capabilities is dead.
Pompeo's Israel visit was to push for annexation
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/05/2020
» Israel's new two-headed government, with Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, was supposed to be sworn in on Wednesday. Then suddenly the inauguration was postponed by one day to accommodate a quick visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. What brought Mr Pompeo so far for so short a time?
A journalist's funeral in Ireland reignites deadly past
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/04/2019
» On Wednesday, the Taoiseach (prime minister) of the Republic of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, and Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom, both showed up in Belfast in Northern Ireland for the funeral of a young woman called Lyra McKee. So did the president of the Republic, Michael Higgins and UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn. It's quite possible that none of them had even heard of her a week ago.