• OPINION

  Argentina must break its vicious political cycle

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/11/2023

  » Bertolt Brecht lived in Germany, not in Argentina, and he has been dead longer than he was alive, but his famous question applies to the Argentine election next Sunday: "Would it not be simpler if the government dissolved the people and elected another?"

• OPINION

  Israel must keep guard up amid Hamas assault

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/10/2023

  » If you are wondering why Hamas launched its all-out assault on Israel on Saturday, I wrote it right here last week. "The Arab world has basically abandoned the Palestinians to their fate, whatever that may be. Six Arab countries have established diplomatic ties with Israel and several more, including Saudi Arabia, are on the brink of doing so."

• OPINION

  France's latest crude, culinary counter-offensive

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/09/2023

  » The French government has just published a decree banning the use of terms like "steak", "spare ribs" and "ham" on plant-based foods. Sausages and "poultry nuggets" will escape the ban so long as the plant protein content is less than 6%.

• OPINION

  Have we passed the point of no return with AI?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/06/2023

  » 'Sometimes I think it's as if aliens have landed and people haven't realised because they speak very good English," said Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather of AI' (Artificial Intelligence), who resigned from Google and now fears his godchildren will become "things more intelligent than us, taking control".

• OPINION

  Beijing will use 'floggings' until morale improves

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/03/2023

  » Xi Jinping was confirmed in a third term as president of China at the National People's Congress last week, and not one of the 3,000 delegates voted against him. Why would they? Everything is perfect in the People's Republic of Oz, and the chief Wizard doesn't even to need to hide behind a curtain.

• OPINION

  Iran nukes: End of the road for an agreement

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/07/2022

  » About six weeks ago Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), warned that the attempt to revive the 2015 deal that restricted Iran's ability to enrich uranium was on the brink of collapse. Three or four weeks more without an agreement, he said, would deal the talks a "fatal blow".

• OPINION

  Do Russians have war in their blood?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/04/2022

  » The geopolitical views of my grandmother, Florence O'Driscoll, could have been summed up in seven words: the Germans have war in their blood. Even as a child I suspected that the world must be more complicated than that, but I never contradicted her. She came by those views the hard way.

• OPINION

  A complex deal: Iran, nukes, oil, Israel, Russia

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/03/2022

  » As with most re-marriages between the same partners, the participants are not exactly starry-eyed. They have just figured out that the old deal was just better than no deal at all.

• OPINION

  Will Russia opt to play the 'Cuban card'?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/01/2022

  » After a week of intense discussions about "security" between Russia and the Nato countries, this is the week when the Western allies will send their written replies to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Various pundits, some of whom have actually been to Russia, warn us that there will be "War in Europe" if Mr Putin's demands are not met.

• OPINION

  Nuke deal is dead! Long live deterrence!

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/12/2021

  » 'We reviewed the proposals ... carefully and thoroughly and concluded that Iran violated almost all compromises found previously in months of hard negotiations," said the German Foreign Ministry spokesman on Sunday. As a funeral oration, it lacked in elegance, but it did the job: the 2015 treaty curbing Iran's nuclear capabilities is dead.

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