• OPINION

  Why won't Putin go to South Africa?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/07/2023

  » Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he won't be going to South Africa for next month's summit of the Brics countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), although all the other leaders will be there. In fact, another couple of dozen national leaders who want to join the club will also be there. Why is Mr Putin staying away?

• OPINION

  Predicting what Israel will do next is easy

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/07/2023

  » The two-day Israeli military incursion into the Palestinian city of Jenin in the northern West Bank (12 Palestinians killed, one Israeli dead) seems at first glance like just another example of "mowing the lawn". That's what the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) call these periodic futile raids they make to kill some Palestinian fighters.

• OPINION

  Could Boris Johnson make a comeback?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/09/2022

  » As a child, outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly said he wanted to be "King of the World". He ended up in a somewhat humbler role, was rejected by his own party's members of parliament for his mendacity, corruption and incompetence, and will hand over to his successor, Liz Truss, on Monday. But the Fat Lady still hasn't sung.

• OPINION

  China and Covid: The cost of infallibility

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/05/2022

  » Even the pope claims to be infallible only on matters of faith and doctrine.

• OPINION

  The battle to destroy the whistleblowers

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/10/2021

  » A long time ago now I was asked to do a television series about the world's intelligence services -- and I turned it down flat. My main reason was a feeling that there was less to the whole intelligence world than met the eye, and the subsequent 30 years have only served to confirm that judgement.

• OPINION

  After Merkel, who will fill her 'sensible shoes'?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/09/2021

  » Last January Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) were ahead in the German opinion polls by 15 points. She was stepping down after 16 years as chancellor (prime minister), but she was still by far the most trusted politician in Germany. Indeed, she is universally known as "Mutti" ("Mummy").

• OPINION

  Time for a new discourse on Afghanistan

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/09/2021

  » A man is sitting in a train somewhere in Europe, tearing sheets of paper into little pieces and throwing them out the window.

• OPINION

  The puzzle of who killed Haiti's Moise

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/07/2021

  » The presidential dogs were still alive, which meant that something was very wrong with the official explanation of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise on July 7. In very poor countries even moderately prosperous people whose houses contain things worth stealing usually have large dogs, and those dogs are trained to attack intruders.

• OPINION

  Bibi, Benny and Ruvi: Israel's future

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/03/2020

  » Benjamin Netanyahu, or "Bibi" as everyone calls him, is the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's history, and still in office although he has failed to win three elections in a row. Last June, last September, and again early this month, Israeli voters split their votes in ways that made it almost impossible to put together a new government.

• OPINION

  Kristallnacht for India's Muslims?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/03/2020

  » The anti-Muslim pogrom in northeastern Delhi last week only killed 43 people, and a few of them weren't even Muslims. But then on Kristallnacht ("The Night of Broken Glass") in Germany in 1938, only 91 Jews were killed. It was still a Nazi declaration of war on the Jews, and a forewarning of the 6 million Jewish deaths to come.

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