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  Hope on horizon for starving Palestinians?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/03/2024

  » Good news! The US logistical support ship General Frank S. Besson Junior has just sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, carrying the equipment needed to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza. That will enable the US to deliver food to the starving (yes, literally starving) Palestinian population of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip.

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  Afghanistan faces famine, it can't be ignored

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/02/2022

  » Because the Taliban have been designated as "terrorists", it is possible for the United States not only to embargo American aid and trade to Afghanistan, but also to block or at least seriously hinder efforts by other countries to send humanitarian aid. As a result, more than half the country's people -- 23 million at last count -- are suddenly near starvation.

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  Ethiopia: War in Tigray still a tricky prospect

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/12/2020

  » 'Love always wins. Killing others is a defeat," said Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in June 2018, shortly after surviving a grenade attack at a rally in Meskel Square in the capital, Addis Ababa. How was he to know that just thirty months after saying that he would have to stop loving and start killing?

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  HK protesters making bad gamble

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/10/2019

  » After 17 consecutive weekends of increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong, the first protester was wounded by a live bullet on Tuesday. Tsang Chi-kin, an 18-year-old student and one of a group of about a dozen students attacking a policeman who had become separated from his comrades, was shot in the chest as he struck the officer with a metal pole. He is expected to survive.

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  Hong Kong: It's purely symbolic

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/08/2019

  » The anti-government demonstrations in Hong Kong are now eight weeks old and still going strong, but the level of violence is rising.

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  Mohamed Morsi: A death foretold

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/06/2019

  » Egypt's first and last democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, died on Monday, lying on the floor of the courtroom where they were trying him on yet more charges. (He was already serving several life sentences.) It was probably a heart attack, but according to witnesses they left him lying there for 20 minutes before medical help arrived.

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  The Chinese People's Republic of Amnesia

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/06/2019

  » Another of the five-yearly anniversaries has rolled around, and it's time to write another think-piece about the long-term meaning of the massacre on Beijing's Tienanmen Square on 4 June 1989. But 30 years later, what is there left to say?

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  Brexit heads to climax over Irish border

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/11/2018

  » It was either ignorant or irresponsible for those campaigning for Brexit (British exit from the European Union) two years ago to claim that the Irish border would not be a problem. In fact, it may lead to a catastrophic "no deal" Brexit in which the United Kingdom crashes out of the EU without an agreement of any kind.

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  Long trek to democracy in SE Asia

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/08/2018

  » A quarter-century before the Arab Spring of 2011, there was a democratic spring in Southeast Asia: the Philippines in 1986, Myanmar in 1988, Thailand in 1992 and Indonesia in 1998. The Arab Spring was largely drowned in blood (Syria, Egypt, Libya), but democracy really seemed to be taking root in Southeast Asia -- for a while.

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  After reaching a peak, the only way for Russia is down

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/03/2017

  » The crowds of protesters in Moscow and other Russian cities were far bigger the last time, in 2011-2012. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was so intoxicated by the forty or fifty thousand citizens who demonstrated in Moscow against Vladimir Putin's rule that he boasted: "I see enough people here to take the Kremlin ... right now, but we are peaceful people and won't do that just yet."

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