• THAILAND

  Starship: The Iterative Design Methodology

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 23/04/2023

  » 'Obviously, this is not a nominal situation," said John Insprucker, a senior engineer at Space-X, who was doing a webcast on Thursday's launch attempt of Elon Musk's gigantic Starship rocket. So why did Mr Musk's employees, hundreds of whom were watching live, cheer when it blew up only four minutes into flight?

• OPINION

  Sudan: Thieves fall out and the people suffer

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/04/2023

  » It's a pity that both sides can't lose in the war that broke out between rival generals in Sudan on Saturday, but the best that the 48 million Sudanese can hope for now is that one side loses quickly. Beyond that, it's all bad: the rival generals both want to strangle the democratic revolution that began in Khartoum four years ago.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  Israel pogroms reflect nation's shift to right

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/03/2023

  » The dictionary definition of "pogrom" is "an organised massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries." So, there is something deeply strange about hearing pogrom used in Hebrew to describe what some Jewish people are doing to Arabs in 21st-century Israel.

• OPINION

  Micro-suicide drones a real Xmas t(h)reat

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/12/2022

  » Some lucky boys and girls are going to find micro-suicide drones in their stockings this Christmas! Get your orders in now!

• OPINION

  Will we soon have unlimited clean energy?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/12/2022

  » Nuclear fusion, the "holy grail" that would finally end all the world's energy problems, has been receding into the future at the rate of about one year per year all my adult life -- it was always "about 30 years away" -- but suddenly we're catching up. Unfortunately, the change of pace comes too late to save us from an acute global climate emergency.

• OPINION

  Greater urgency needed for our fading glaciers

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/10/2022

  » I'm writing this on a plane to Greenland -- well, actually, on a plane to Denmark, because there's no way to get to Greenland by a civilian airline without going through Copenhagen first -- and it has occurred to me (not for the first time) to wonder where everybody else is.

• OPINION

  Risk of imposed ceasefire eases in Ukraine war

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/09/2022

  » Two months ago, John Bolton wrote an article in The Hill, the leading politics website in Washington, warning against a Russian "October Surprise". He suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin might suddenly cease military operations and declare a ceasefire -- which would utterly snooker the Ukrainians.

• OPINION

  War sounds death knell for The Last Empire

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/09/2022

  » This is not another pipe-sucking reassessment of Mikhail Gorbachev's failed attempt to democratise the Soviet Union thirty years ago. He wasn't actually trying to do that anyway; he was attempting to save the Soviet Union and Communism by civilising and softening the harsh Bolshevik dictatorship that had prevailed since 1917.

• 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.

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