• 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

  The US and Russia agree on Syria

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/08/2016

  » Great states hate to admit error, so when they have to change course they generally try to disguise the fact. That's why you may not have heard much about the way that the United States has changed course in Syria in the past three months.

• OPINION

  Will Orlando bring about the end of the United States?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/06/2016

  » "If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country any more," said Donald Trump after the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando early on Sunday morning, and The Donald never exaggerates. The United States is a very fragile entity, only two-and-a-bit centuries old. One more attack like Orlando -- 49 dead and 53 wounded -- and it's finished.

• OPINION

  Syria's chance for 'peace and stability'

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/03/2016

  » So far the Russian plan for a ceasefire in Syria is working remarkably well. The truce that came into effect on Saturday had been observed with only minor violations on all the relevant fronts, and the UN's humanitarian coordinator in Syria, Yacoub el-Hillo, called it "the best opportunity that the Syrian people have had over the last five years for lasting peace and stability".

• OPINION

  Terror is our biggest fear, but not our biggest threat

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/12/2015

  » On Sunday President Barack Obama spoke about a mass shooting in the United States for the 17th time in the past seven years. (There have actually been 335 mass shootings in the US already this year, but he only does the big ones.) But this time Mr Obama spoke from the Oval Office.

• OPINION

  West's reproach of Russian realism reeks of hypocrisy

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/10/2015

  » It's a week since the Russians began their air strikes in Syria, and the countries that have already been bombing there for over a year -- the United States and some other Nato countries -- are working themselves up into a rage about it. The Russians are not bombing the right people, they are killing civilians, they are reckless, dangerous, and just plain evil.

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