• OPINION

  France's latest crude, culinary counter-offensive

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/09/2023

  » The French government has just published a decree banning the use of terms like "steak", "spare ribs" and "ham" on plant-based foods. Sausages and "poultry nuggets" will escape the ban so long as the plant protein content is less than 6%.

• OPINION

  Is Aussie political madness catching?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/08/2018

  » I happened to be in Canberra last Friday, speaking to a room full of journalists at the National Press Club, when the news came in, halfway through lunch, that Australia had a new prime minister. The moderator pointed out that the year is already two-thirds gone and it is "only three prime ministers till Christmas" -- and the China Daily's headline read "Australia changes its prime minister again, again, again, again, again".

• OPINION

  Prepare for a fossil fuel fire sale

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/11/2021

  » An article with the innocuous title "Reframing Incentives for Climate Policy Action" slipped out in the scientific journal Nature Energy three weeks ago and got very little attention, presumably because of the hopeless title. But it's not innocuous at all. It's explosive.

• OPINION

  Will US military aid to Ukraine tip the scales?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/04/2024

  » 'I've said before, you do the right thing and you let the chips fall where they may," said Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives. The chips being the 10 or 20,000 extra Ukrainians who died needlessly during the six months when the Republican Party blocked the sending of any more US military aid to Ukraine.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  The fascists are (probably not) coming after all

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/01/2024

  » ‘Fascism is on the march everywhere!” shrieked the headline on a recent think-piece by my least favourite foreign affairs commentator (who must remain nameless because I don’t want to give him any publicity). But articles and op-eds about the fascist threat are certainly on the march, and occasionally a real fascist pops up in public.

• OPINION

  Charting China's decline, at a slow pace

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/12/2023

  » For several years now, I have had a file on my computer named "China -- has the moment arrived?" But I think I missed the moment -- or rather I forgot that these things aren't a moment, they're a process.

• OPINION

  Armenia's latest exodus: Not a genocide

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/10/2023

  » It is a tragedy, but it is not a genocide. In a single week, almost all of the 120,000 Armenians who lived in the enclave in western Azerbaijan called Nagorno-Karabakh have fled across the border into Armenia. Most say they don't expect ever to go home again.

• OPINION

  Turkey and its hundred-year culture war

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/05/2023

  » Turkey's elections are fairly free, and there is going to be one this Sunday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for two decades, and he should really lose by a landslide. Imagine what the United States would be like if Donald Trump had been in power for 20 years, and that's what Turkey looks like today.

• OPINION

  Thailand: Back around in the circle again?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/05/2023

  » There have been occasional violent episodes in Thai politics and one recent massacre (2010), but the struggle for a genuine democracy has usually been relatively restrained. Maybe that is why it has lasted so long.

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