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HK protesters making bad gamble
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/10/2019
» After 17 consecutive weekends of increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong, the first protester was wounded by a live bullet on Tuesday. Tsang Chi-kin, an 18-year-old student and one of a group of about a dozen students attacking a policeman who had become separated from his comrades, was shot in the chest as he struck the officer with a metal pole. He is expected to survive.
Netanyahu has nearly finished his grim mission
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/09/2019
» Benjamin Netanyahu's work is almost done. If he wins tomorrow's election and forms yet another government (he is now the longest-serving Israeli prime minister), he will put a stake through the heart of the "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that was born in the 1993 Oslo peace accords. Hamas should send him a gold watch for long service.
Whodunnit? Blame always goes to Iran
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/09/2019
» US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dismissed the Houthi claim that the Yemeni rebel group had carried out Saturday's strike on two huge Saudi Arabian oil processing facilities. There was "no evidence" that the drones belonged to the Houthis, he said. Instead, he blamed Iran.
The democratisation of airpower
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/09/2019
» Big shifts in the military balance happen quietly over many years, and then leap suddenly into focus when the shooting starts.
Treachery reigns supreme in the Middle East
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/08/2019
» Things have got so complicated in the Middle East that the players are no longer just stabbing each other in the back. They are stabbing each other in the chest, in the groin, behind the left ear -- anywhere that comes to hand. Friends and allies one day are targets and enemies the next.
Three small victories in Europe: A turning point?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/09/2019
» Have we reached peak fascist in Europe? Well, all right then, peak hard-right nationalist, but are we there yet? That would be reassuring, and three events in the past week give some cause for hope.
Proroguing parliament was Johnson's only option
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/08/2019
» Shock! Horror! Johnson prorogues Parliament! End of democracy in Britain! The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, says he was not even consulted, and calls it "a constitutional outrage".
Greenland's big gamble on Chinese mining
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/08/2019
» From his purchase of New Jersey casinos to his proposed acquisition of Greenland, Donald Trump's real estate deals have always been plagued by bad timing. The United States could probably have bought Greenland from Denmark in 1917, but he's a century too late now.
How to solve two converging crises
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/08/2019
» Maybe we can get through the climate crisis without a global catastrophe, although that door is closing fast. And maybe we can cope with the huge loss of jobs caused by the revolution in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) without a social and political calamity.
The last prime minister of the United Kingdom
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/07/2019
» It has been suggested that Boris Johnson (who becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom this week) is what you would get if Donald Trump had been educated at Eton and Oxford. Maybe, although there is a great gulf between Mr Trump's bombastic self-promotion and Mr Johnson's self-deprecating, rather shambolic persona.