• OPINION

  Peace is returning to Ukraine

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/09/2015

  » The current ceasefire in the war in eastern Ukraine, the so-called Minsk-2 agreement, was signed last February, but they never actually ceased firing. At least a thousand more people have been killed in the fighting since then, and on one night last month (Aug 14) the monitors of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe recorded 175 separate ceasefire violations.

• OPINION

  Saudi Arabia's risky gamble is driving the oil downturn

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/02/2016

  » ‘The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent,” said John Maynard Keynes (or maybe it wasn’t him, but no matter). At any rate, that was the eternal verity the Saudi Arabians were counting on when they decided to let oil production rip — and the oil price collapse — in late 2014.

• OPINION

  British petulance is shaping European Union's future

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/02/2016

  » What would you call a country that called for "a structure under which [Europe] can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom ... a kind of United States of Europe" at the end of the Second World War (Winston Churchill, 1946), but refused to join that structure when its European neighbours actually began building it (European Economic Community, or EEC, 1957)?

• OPINION

  Russia was right about Syria conflict

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/05/2016

  » 'The Russians had a more realistic analysis of the situation than practically anybody else," said Lakhdar Brahimi, the former UN Special Envoy to Syria. "Everyone should have listened to the Russians a little bit more than they did."

• OPINION

  The US and Russia agree on Syria

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/08/2016

  » Great states hate to admit error, so when they have to change course they generally try to disguise the fact. That's why you may not have heard much about the way that the United States has changed course in Syria in the past three months.

• OPINION

  Let's fight malaria with chickens

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 23/08/2016

  » I had malaria once, and it was extremely unpleasant. I had been working in Yemen, but I actually contracted it when I was flying home on a Dutch airline that must remain nameless. The flight made a stop in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, and the plane was parked out on the runway while waiting to pick up passengers -- right on the edge of a mangrove swamp on the Red Sea coast.

• OPINION

  HFC ban may be too little, too late

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/10/2016

  » The chief source of new problems is solutions to old problems. The ammonia that we used in domestic fridges as a coolant in the early 20th century was poisonous if it leaked, so in the 1930s we replaced it with chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which you can breathe all day without harm. Problem solved.

• OPINION

  Park a victim of a 'Seoul Rasputin'

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/11/2016

  » 'Sad thoughts trouble my sleep at night," said South Korea's President Park Geun-hye. "I realise that whatever I do, it will be difficult to mend the hearts of the people, and then I feel a sense of shame." And so she should, but it's also hard not to feel some sympathy for her plight. This isn't your usual political corruption case. She never benefited from her actions in any way.

• OPINION

  Morsi verdict shows justice is not entirely dead in Egypt

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/11/2016

  » Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, has now been in prison more than three times as long as he was in the presidential palace, but his death sentence was quashed last week. On Tuesday, the country's highest appeal court also overturned his life sentence on a separate charge -- but that doesn't mean he's going to be free any time soon.

• OPINION

  Trump's 'jobs' plan faces uncertainty

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/01/2017

  » The main message of 2016 was that we are entering a period of economic and political upheaval comparable to the industrial revolution of 1780-1850, and nothing expressed that message more clearly than Donald Trump's appointment of Andrew Puzder as his secretary of labour. Even though it's clear that neither man understands the message.

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