• OPINION

  Trump and the maniac in Pyongyang

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/02/2017

  » 'This guy, he's like a maniac, OK? He wiped out the uncle. He wiped out this one, that one. I mean, this guy doesn't play games. And we can't play games with him. Because he really does have missiles. And he really does have nukes."

• OPINION

  Trump, WikiLeaks and doing business with Russia

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/01/2017

  » When a Fox News reporter asked Donald Trump about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back in 2010, just after Mr Assange had released a huge cache of secret US diplomatic cables, the reality TV star had no doubts: "I think it's disgraceful, I think there should be like the death penalty or something."

• OPINION

  Doomsday Clock gets the time all wrong

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/02/2017

  » 'Without a proper sense of urgency, we will be eventually defeated, dominated and very likely destroyed," wrote former general Michael Flynn, President Trump's National Security Adviser, last year. "They are dead set on taking us over and drinking our blood."

• OPINION

  After the fall of Aleppo, a kind of peace?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/11/2016

  » Eastern Aleppo, the rebel-held half of what was once Syria's biggest city, is falling. Once the resistance there collapses, things may move very fast in Syria, and the biggest question will be: do the outside powers that have intervened in the war accept Bashar al-Assad's victory, or do they keep the war going?

• OPINION

  No good will come from US election

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/11/2016

  » Donald Trump may not win the election next week -- although he is at least going to come close -- but even if he loses, the wells are poisoned.

• OPINION

  The Korean rhetoric and its reality

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/09/2016

  » Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said that North Korea was the "neighbourhod outlaw" after Pyongyang's fifth nuclear weapons test on Friday. Barack Obama said that "The United States does not, and never will, accept North Korea as a nuclear state". Even China voiced its "firm opposition to the test". And South Korea's president, Park Gyeung-hye, accused North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong-un of "maniacal recklessness".

• OPINION

  Is 2016 the new 1936?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/08/2016

  » Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce -- Karl Marx, 1852.

• OPINION

  Duterte is a problem for the Philippines, not the UN

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/08/2016

  » Rodrigo Duterte, the new president of the Philippines, gives good copy. Here's a quote from his final election rally: "Forget the laws on human rights. If I make it to the presidential palace, I will do just what I did as mayor. You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out. Because I'd kill you. I'll dump all of you into Manila Bay, and fatten all the fish there."

• OPINION

  Russia's new 'friend' is Erdogan

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/08/2016

  » There was more than a hint of grovelling in Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan's approach to his new "dear friend", Russian President Vladimir Putin.

• 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."

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