• 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

  China and its repression of the Uighurs

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 23/08/2018

  » Two weeks ago, Prof Gay McDougall, co-chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, alleged that up to a million people belonging to the Uighur and other Muslim minority groups in China's northwestern province of Xinjiang have been detained in concentration camps to be "re-educated" about religion.

• OPINION

  Beauty queen shows old habits die hard

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/02/2024

  » It did not end well for Karolina Shiino, the young woman who won the title of Miss Japan two weeks ago.

• 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

  Waging a just war and the Gaza Strip

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/12/2023

  » 'If you [Americans] were OK with us killing 5,000 children, you are OK with killing 10,000 children," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli diplomat who helped negotiate the Oslo peace accords in the 1990s. That's what Israeli diplomats really think of US policy, he says.

• OPINION

  Is it the end of populism, or just a pause?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/06/2023

  » We're going to miss the populist "big beasts" now that they're gone. Who will now tell us that "Voting Conservative will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3"? (Boris Johnson) Who will describe Barack Obama as "handsome, young and also suntanned"? (Silvio Berlusconi)

• OPINION

  Syria: The rehabilitation of dictator Assad

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/05/2023

  » There is no justice. Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator whose membership even the Arab League suspended 12 years ago, is off to Riyadh this week to celebrate his re-admission to the organisation. He will pay no price for his many crimes against humanity: the name of the game now is not retribution but 'rehabilitation'.

• 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

  Recycled wars of benighted Afghanistan

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/08/2021

  » In the year 2000, five years after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, nobody elsewhere cared what happened in that land-locked, benighted country. It was ruled by angry rural fanatics who tormented the local people with their demented rules for proper "Islamic" behaviour, but it was not a military or diplomatic priority for anybody.

• 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.

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