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US startup's climate gig stirs up controversy
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/01/2023
» It was the moral equivalent of a fart in a hurricane. The "hurricane" was the explosion of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines in 1991, which boosted 17 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere.
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Widodo is not that different from Trudeau
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/09/2019
» The news out of Indonesia this week is disturbing. In West Papua, the Indonesian-ruled half of the world's second-biggest island, New Guinea, the native people are definitely restive. Some 1.8 million of them, 70% of West Papua's native population, signed a petition demanding the right to self-determination last year, and now much of the island is in revolt.
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This climate of doom may be unscientific
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/09/2019
» Jonathan Franzen has finally seen the light. Unfortunately, it has blinded him.
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Abiy the lucky premier of Ethiopia
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/06/2019
» Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is a very lucky man. He has survived three attempts to kill or overthrow him in the past year.
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Trump, WikiLeaks and doing business with Russia
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/01/2017
» When a Fox News reporter asked Donald Trump about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back in 2010, just after Mr Assange had released a huge cache of secret US diplomatic cables, the reality TV star had no doubts: "I think it's disgraceful, I think there should be like the death penalty or something."
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Another way of looking at the horrors of Hiroshima
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/05/2016
» Today's Hiroshima doesn't give the TV journalists a lot to work with. It's a bustling, mid-sized Japanese city with only few reminders of its destruction by an atomic bomb in 1945. There's the skeletal dome of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (which was right under the blast), and discreet plaques on various buildings saying that such-and-such a middle school, with 600 students, used to be on this site, and that's all.
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