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Anti-abortion laws and radicalisation
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/12/2020
» 'Get your rosaries off our ovaries," chanted the women marching in support of the referendum that made abortion legal in Ireland in 2018. Two years later the 2020 election broke the century-long stranglehold on power of the two centre-right parties, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. They got fewer than half the votes even together.
Contagion death rates and doses of arrogance
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/04/2020
» Something has gone wrong in the "Anglosphere", as the English-speaking countries are known in some other parts of the world.
Save the old or save the economy?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/04/2020
» The basic choice all along with Covid-19 has been: Do we let the old die, or do we take a big hit economically? So far, the decision almost everywhere has been to take the hit and save the old (or most of them), but in some places it has been a very near-run thing.
Iran: 'Boots on the ground' war unwinnable
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/05/2019
» 'After a long debate, the highest levels of the military could not forecast a way in which things would end favourably for the United States," said Richard Clarke, counter-terrorism adviser in the White House under three administrations. That was back in 2007, and he was talking about the Pentagon's attempts to come up with a winning strategy for a US war with Iran. No matter how they gamed it, the US lost.
China and Taiwan following a well-rehearsed script
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/01/2019
» 'Independence for Taiwan would only bring profound disaster to Taiwan," said China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday, and he ought to know. He is the one who would make sure the disaster happened.
The first shots of another Gulf war?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/09/2018
» The men who carried out Saturday's attack on the parade in Ahvaz, in Iran's southwestern province of Khuzestan, were well trained: Four of them killed 25 people and wounded 70 others before they were shot dead. The question is whether they were trained by the Islamic State (IS), or by the backers of the low-profile Ahvaz National Resistance, which also claimed credit.
The root of Islamist terrorism
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/06/2017
» It happens after every major terrorist attack by Islamist terrorists in a Western country: The familiar debate about who is really to blame for this phenomenon. One side trots out the weary old trope that the terrorists simply "hate our values", and other side claims that it's really the fault of Western governments for sending their troops into Muslim countries.
Donald Trump and China: The 'madman' strategy
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/12/2016
» 'When two elephants fight against each other, the grass always suffers," said Yu-Fang Lin of the National Policy Foundation, a Taiwan-based think tank, in an interview with the Washington Times. He was talking about the famous phone call between Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen and Donald Trump on 2 Dec. If the US and China get into a military confrontation, Mr Lin suggested, it is Taiwan that will be crushed.
Russia's new 'friend' is Erdogan
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/08/2016
» There was more than a hint of grovelling in Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan's approach to his new "dear friend", Russian President Vladimir Putin.
IS is fomenting a Muslim backlash
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/08/2016
» 'Our country is at war," said French President Francois Hollande after a priest was murdered near Rouen in front of his congregation by two attackers who claimed to be serving Islamic State. It's the sort of thing leaders feel compelled to say at times like this, but it does send the wrong message.