• 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

  The who and why of Gaza hospital blast

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/10/2023

  » The blame game has gone into high gear. It started with the massacre perpetrated in Israel two weeks ago by the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip for the past 17 years. US President Joe Biden called it "sheer evil", and a chorus of other voices said the same.

• 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

  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

  What shall we do with climate refugees?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/08/2022

  » You wait ages for the bus, and then three come along at once. Books are a bit like that, too, although in this case it's only a pair of them, both tackling the question of what to do about all the "climate refugees". (The United Nations' International Organization for Migration estimates that 1.5 billion people may be forced to move in the next thirty years alone.)

• OPINION

  Are we ready for the first real automatons?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/01/2021

  » They were planning to put on a play written by an artificial intelligence programme in Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic, this month, to mark the invention of robots (or at least the idea of robots) in the same city exactly one hundred years ago. The coronavirus pandemic got in the way of that, and it will now only be available free online late next month. Kind of symbolic, really: the future is quite different than what they expected.

• OPINION

  There's nothing special about democracy in US

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/01/2021

  » If I have to read one more hand-wringing article about the "crisis of American democracy" and what it means for the world, I'm going to retch.

• OPINION

  What if Trump triumphs again?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/09/2020

  » 'To lose one parent... may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness," wrote Oscar Wilde in his play The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895.

• OPINION

  Climates of fear lead to 'shoot-downs'

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/01/2020

  » One of the main causes of death for airline passengers in recent decades is being shot down by somebody's military. Not the very biggest, of course: accidents account for nine-tenths of all deaths in civilian airline crashes, and terrorist attacks and hijackings cause most of the rest. But a solid 2.5% of the deaths are due to trigger-happy people in military uniforms.

• 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.

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