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    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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    Thai-Israeli relations need recalibrating

    Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 23/04/2024

    » This year, Thailand and Israel celebrate 70 years of diplomatic ties. Obviously, this comes during a period of great strain for Israel and the broader Middle East. Amidst it all, Thailand must recalibrate one of its most important foreign policies in the Middle East; otherwise, there will be nothing to celebrate.

  • OPINION

    Govt pulls through with Songkran fest

    Editorial, Published on 21/04/2024

    » Peak celebrations for the Songkran holiday this year may have passed, but there are already a few refreshing signs lingering in the aftermath of the festivities.

  • OPINION

    Iran, Israel is a panto crisis, not a real war

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/04/2024

    » Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's "Supreme Leader", is embarrassed and humiliated by the complete failure of his drone and missile attack on Israel, but does US President Joe Biden have the empathy to feel sorry for his old adversary in his time of trouble?

  • OPINION

    Sinking reputation

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 12/04/2024

    » The outcome of the Royal Thai Navy's (RTN) internal investigation into the sinking of the HTMS Sukhothai may draw the final curtain on one of the country's worst maritime tragedies.

  • OPINION

    India needs more leaders like Manmohan Singh

    News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 10/04/2024

    » Almost 10 years after he gave way to Narendra Modi as prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh retired last week from public life. During his long career, Mr Singh also served as chief economist, central bank governor, finance minister, and foreign minister. Although he disappointed many who hoped he would accomplish more, India today owes much of its success to the reforms he implemented.

  • OPINION

    Will AI create more fake news than it exposes?

    News, Tyler Cowen, Published on 08/04/2024

    » The best large-language models can already write like humans, especially if prompted properly. Photos and images can be faked at low cost. Yet-to-be-released technology can create convincing voice simulations. There are signs that some academic papers contain traces of GPT-4. If even professors are faking it, then surely the dam has burst.

  • OPINION

    Economics, at its core, is irredeemably sexist

    Oped, Published on 05/04/2024

    » Economics has an intractable "women problem". High-school girls avoid it. Female undergraduates abandon it. And the problem runs deeper than the difficulty of attracting enough women to mathematics, science, and engineering. Even women who have reached the discipline's summit, like Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, consider economists "a tribal clique" and their models defective.

  • OPINION

    Western armed forces facing a recruitment crisis

    News, Peter Apps, Published on 01/04/2024

    » Every morning on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower, an unsuspecting crew member is called to the bridge, presented with a cookie and asked to sit in the captain's chair.

  • OPINION

    The gigantic 'anomaly' in climate change

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/03/2024

    » It was bound to happen some time, and the time could well be now. We know that when there was strong warming on our planet (like at the end of the last Ice Age about 11,000 years ago), there were sudden big leaps in the global temperature. It wasn't a smooth process at all.

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