• OPINION

  Hope on horizon for starving Palestinians?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/03/2024

  » Good news! The US logistical support ship General Frank S. Besson Junior has just sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, carrying the equipment needed to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza. That will enable the US to deliver food to the starving (yes, literally starving) Palestinian population of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip.

• OPINION

  What Wagner's revolt means to Putin's war

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/06/2023

  » The Don is a much bigger river than the Rubicon, but Yevgeny Prigozhin and his army crossed it anyway on Friday.

• OPINION

  The molecular line between life and death

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/03/2023

  » 'We are but one very small company [among] many hundreds of companies using AI software for drug discovery and de novo design. How many of them have ... the know-how to find the pockets of chemical space that can be filled with molecules predicted to be orders of magnitude more toxic than VX?" This is a warning that requires a little explanation.

• OPINION

  Have we solved the floaty-bag problem?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/02/2023

  » The United States has been having "a bit of a floaty-bag problem over its airspace", as South Africa's Daily Maverick news site put it.

• OPINION

  In Iran, all options to curb crisis are bad

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/10/2022

  » 'Death to [fill in the blank]!" has been the slogan of choice chanted by Iranian protesters since the glory days of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. ("Death to the Shah!", "Death to America!", etc) It's now forty-three years later, however, and the content has become a bit more nuanced.

• OPINION

  Killing Darya Dugina: Ukraine own-goal?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/08/2022

  » 'Iam a political observer of the International Eurasianist Movement and an expert in international relations. In this capacity, I appear on Russian, Pakistani, Turkish, Chinese and Indian television channels. The situation in Ukraine is really an example of a clash of civilisations; it can be seen as a clash between globalist and Eurasian civilisation."

• OPINION

  What's next for Ukraine as the siege goes on?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/03/2022

  » Russian troops are stalled for the third week outside most of the major cities of eastern and central Ukraine, but they have failed to surround and cut off any of them except Mariupol, the big port on the Black Sea that has become the Ukrainian "Stalingrad". Indeed, Ukrainian counter-attacks are driving the Russians back some distance in a few places.

• OPINION

  Do we need more rockets in the stratosphere?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/08/2021

  » If you're worried about your "carbon footprint" -- a concept foisted on the world in 2004 by British Petroleum to persuade people that their own behaviour, and not giant oil companies like BP, is causing the climate problem -- then you definitely should not sign up for a sub-orbital space flight. Besides, you probably can't afford it (US$250,000 -- about 8 million baht -- per person).

• OPINION

  Shipping is worse than aviation

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/03/2021

  » 'We're waiting on food goods like coconut milk and syrups, some spare parts for motors, we've got some fork lift trucks, some Amazon goods on there, all sorts," said Steve Parks of Seaport Freight Services in England, who is awaiting twenty of the 18,300 containers aboard the Ever Given. Which of those things cannot be sourced from somewhere closer than Asia?

• OPINION

  Napoleon and world history: What if...?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/05/2021

  » Napoleon Bonaparte doesn't come up much in conversation these days, which is hardly surprising given that he has been dead for two centuries. On the other hand, today will be exactly 200 years since he died, so maybe we could make an exception just this once.

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