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Vladimir Putin, Navalny and Thomas à Becket
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/08/2020
» In 20 years of writing about Russia's President Vladimir Putin -- he was completely obscure before 1999 -- I have never before had reason to mention him and Saint Thomas à Becket in the same sentence. Finally, however, the time has come.
Fear at the root of America's race problem
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/06/2020
» It's been a bad week in the United States: six nights of protests, huge anger, rioting and looting in 50 cities, hundreds arrested or injured -- but only six dead over the police murder of George Floyd. The number may have gone up by the time you read this, but it's definitely not 1968 again.
Vladimir Putin the immortal hero?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/01/2020
» Five years ago somebody posted photographs on the internet showing a man who looked a lot like Vladimir Putin in photographs from 1920 and 1941. In both shots he was in military uniform, defending the interests of the Russian people then as he still does today.
Ukraine's stagnant war back in focus
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/06/2018
» Four years into a stalemated war, it takes something very big or very bizarre to get Ukraine back into the headlines. Even the news in April that the United States has started delivering lethal weapons (Javelin anti-tank missiles) to Ukraine didn't do the trick, but the non-assassination of Arkady Babchenko last week did just fine.
Israeli 'peace process' still dead
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/05/2017
» Like other US presidents before him, Donald Trump invited the current Palestinian leader to the White House and told him that there was a "very good chance" of a peace settlement between Israel and a soon-to-be-independent state called Palestine.
Park a victim of a 'Seoul Rasputin'
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/11/2016
» 'Sad thoughts trouble my sleep at night," said South Korea's President Park Geun-hye. "I realise that whatever I do, it will be difficult to mend the hearts of the people, and then I feel a sense of shame." And so she should, but it's also hard not to feel some sympathy for her plight. This isn't your usual political corruption case. She never benefited from her actions in any way.
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.
The long, loud silence from the Brexit leadership
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/06/2016
» Parliament met in London on Monday, so that MPs of every party could express their horror and disgust at the murder last Thursday of their colleague Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire. And on Monday everybody did, including the leaders of the Brexit campaign, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. But here's the odd thing: up to that point, the Brexit leaders had said nothing about it.