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Vinland history: a question of dates, timing

Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/11/2022

» 'If the 20th century AD were dated at the same resolution as the 20th century BC, the two World Wars would be indistinguishable in time; and the Montgomery Bus Strike might post-date the release of Mandela." So wrote the Exact Chronology of Early Societies' (ECHOES) team of palaeohistorians at Groningen University in the northern Netherlands -- and then they fixed the problem.

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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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Freddy and the Ice: Messages From the Future

News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/03/2023

» Two new things on the climate front this week, both bad news. Typhoons used to be like drive-by shootings: one pass, one hit and then gone. Now they're starting to come back for a second hit.

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Vikings and Skraelings come full circle

News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/10/2021

» It was already known that the first and only Norse settlement in North America was at L'Anse aux Meadows, at the northern tip of Newfoundland. The specialists even assumed that it happened in the early 11th century, because the Viking sagas more or less said so. But the traditional carbon-14 dates were all over the place.

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Last days of the Old Middle East

Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/09/2020

» President Donald Trump declared "the dawn of a new Middle East" in Washington on Tuesday as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed public agreements with Israel for the first time.

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Will Hungary be outbreak's first casualty?

Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/04/2020

» 'Hello, dictator!" said Jean-Claude Juncker cheerily to Hungary's leader, Victor Orban, at a European Union summit meeting a couple of years ago. The president of the European Commission was only joking, of course, but it was gallows humour. Dictatorship was clearly where Mr Orban was heading -- and now he has arrived.

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Dismantling Malta's mafia state

News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/12/2019

» It's two years since Daphne Caruana Galizia, the best investigative journalist in Malta, was killed by a car bomb. She had been using the huge leaks of financial data in the "Panama Papers" to track down suspicious dealings by members of the Maltese government, and she was getting too close for comfort.

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What if China won't back down to Trump?

News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/05/2019

» Donald Trump is playing hard-ball with China over trade, and the worry-warts are fretting that he's going to start a real trade war by accident. The bigger threat, however, is that he will push first China, and then the whole world, into a deep recession.