• OPINION

  Norway, oil and the issue of climate change

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/10/2021

  » You can see why Saudi Arabia wants to go on pumping as much oil as it can. Oil exports account for 87% of the Saudi government budget and 42% of GDP. The Saudi population, now 35 million, is growing by two-thirds of a million a year, and the country already imports 80% of its food. They'd be starving in a few years if they stopped pumping.

• 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

  Vulnerability marks 100 years of the CCP

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/06/2021

  » The Chinese Communist Party is celebrating the centenary of its foundation tomorrow and most people in China accept the origin myth that justifies its dictatorial rule. China was a horrendously impoverished and unequal society in 1921, the official line says, and owes its current prosperity and freedom from foreign rule to the Communist revolution of 1949.

• OPINION

  Some good news on the climate front

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/06/2021

  » 'I see a huge and growing gap between the rhetoric and the reality," said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, two weeks ago, but he despaired a bit too soon. Last Wednesday a Dutch court ruled that Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world's biggest oil companies, must cut its global carbon dioxide emissions by 45% by 2030.

• OPINION

  Biden speaks some sense on Afghanistan

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/04/2021

  » 'If they go, we'll all have to go. That's the reality of it," said a British source about President Joe Biden's announcement that the last American troops will be out of Afghanistan by Sept 11, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. (What can possibly have possessed him to choose that date?)

• OPINION

  Bolsonaro must quarantine Brazil -- now

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/03/2021

  » If I were a world dictator, I would immediately place Brazil under total quarantine: nobody gets in, nobody comes out. And I would keep it isolated until they (a) arrest and jail President Jair Bolsonaro; (b) impose a strict countrywide lockdown for at least two months; and (c) vaccinate everybody in the country (all 213,584,556 of them). And then we'll see.

• OPINION

  The Sheikh of Dubai and his two daughters

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/02/2021

  » Dubai can be amusing, in a voyeuristic way, for a week or two. The tallest building in the world and the mall with the shark tank, but it's the people, really.

• OPINION

  Playing football won't turn boys into manly men

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/02/2021

  » It seemed innocent enough at the start: just a surge in the number of boys coming to school with notes from doctors saying they were excused from playing contact sports. But pretty soon high schools all over China were having trouble finding enough willing young men to make up a football team.

• OPINION

  Putsch against Suu Kyi reflects military's insecurities

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/02/2021

  » China's Xinhua news agency tactfully described the Burmese army's seizure of power on Monday as a "cabinet reshuffle". This suggests a possible new approach for Donald Trump's legal team as he faces a second impeachment trial, but it won't work, for two reasons. One, Mr Trump's coup attempt failed. Two, people got killed.

• OPINION

  Anti-abortion laws and radicalisation

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/12/2020

  » 'Get your rosaries off our ovaries," chanted the women marching in support of the referendum that made abortion legal in Ireland in 2018. Two years later the 2020 election broke the century-long stranglehold on power of the two centre-right parties, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. They got fewer than half the votes even together.

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