• OPINION

  Sri Lanka: A bad 'Band of Brothers'

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/07/2022

  » 'How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked (in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises). "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." Sri Lanka is much the same.

• OPINION

  Climate change hits southern part of Africa

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/04/2022

  » Tropical Storm Ana in January, Tropical Cyclone Batsirai in February, then Dumako, Emnati and Gombe in quick succession: three cyclones and two "tropical storms" in six weeks hitting the coasts of southeast Africa.

• OPINION

  Ukraine: a short pause for thought

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/03/2022

  » Two weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine and still no "decapitation" of the Ukrainian government. In the past week, no city has been captured except Kherson, and maybe 2,000 military dead on each side.

• OPINION

  The battle to destroy the whistleblowers

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/10/2021

  » A long time ago now I was asked to do a television series about the world's intelligence services -- and I turned it down flat. My main reason was a feeling that there was less to the whole intelligence world than met the eye, and the subsequent 30 years have only served to confirm that judgement.

• OPINION

  Sept 11 didn't change the world forever

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/09/2021

  » 'Changed the world forever' is the most hackneyed phrase in journalism, and if you can get through this week (the 20th anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks) without hearing it half a dozen times you'll be very lucky.

• OPINION

  China and the US: Too big to be equal?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/09/2021

  » Never mind the destruction of the relatively free society of Hong Kong (no emergency airlift like in Kabul, Afghanistan, but the number of people fleeing Hong Kong may ultimately be larger). Never mind the persecution of the Uighurs, or the Orwellian surveillance society that the Communist Party is building, or the tens of millions who died in wars, famines and "cultural revolutions" to bring equality to China.

• OPINION

  The puzzle of who killed Haiti's Moise

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/07/2021

  » The presidential dogs were still alive, which meant that something was very wrong with the official explanation of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise on July 7. In very poor countries even moderately prosperous people whose houses contain things worth stealing usually have large dogs, and those dogs are trained to attack intruders.

• OPINION

  Israel and Hamas: Lies and a glimpse of truth

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/05/2021

  » First, three lies. The Gaza offensive has yielded "unprecedented military gains", said Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz. The ceasefire last week amounted to a "victory" for the Palestinian people and a defeat for Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, said a Hamas official. But the ceasefire brings "genuine opportunity" for progress, said US President Joe Biden.

• OPINION

  When 'mowing the grass' will no longer do

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/05/2021

  » 'We didn't want this conflict, but now that it's started it has to end with a sustained period of quiet," said Mark Regev, spokesman for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "That can only be achieved by Israel taking out Hamas -- their military structure, their command and control." Or, as the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) would put it, by "mowing the grass".

• OPINION

  Objective allies: Netanyahu and Hamas militants

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/05/2021

  » 'Objective allies' generally don't even talk to each other. They don't have common values, their ultimate goals may be completely incompatible, they often hate each other. But they share some intermediate goal, and are clever enough to realise they can both get what they want by acting together in certain ways.

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