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Iran and Trump: Much ado about nothing much
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/06/2025
» I don't get a lot of face-time with Donald Trump, but his rant on Tuesday in front of the chopper that was to take him to the airport and on to the Nato summit in Brussels was the first time I heard him say "f***" in front of live microphones -- and it was clearly about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The myth of global grain shortages
Oped, Jayati Ghosh, Published on 17/08/2023
» In recent years, soaring food prices and the growing frequency and intensity of floods, droughts, and other extreme weather events have prompted warnings of a looming grain shortage, potentially spelling disaster for the world's poorest and most vulnerable populations. Although climate change poses the greatest medium to long-term threat to global food security, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is frequently cited as the immediate cause of the current hunger crisis. But this is a red herring.
Protest glamour
Oped, Postbag, Published on 23/12/2022
» Re: "Senator sparks handbag spat with student activist", (BP, Dec 21).
Chagos: a 50-year-old UK-US crime
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/02/2022
» 'The object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours.... There will be no indigenous population except seagulls," wrote Sir Paul Gore-Booth, a senior official at the British Foreign Office, as the plan to expel the 2,000 Chagos Islanders from their homes was taking shape in 1966. "We must surely be very tough about this."
Strict bug curbs lifted state economies
Oped, Jerry Nickelsburg, Published on 30/06/2021
» In April 2020, with the pandemic in full swing, The Economist published: "A Grim Calculus: Covid-19 presents stark choices between life, death and the economy." Soon Americans were blaming the lockdowns for recession. Before year's end, some states were ending Covid restrictions with the goal of boosting economic activity.
Why our privacy might not be worth protecting
Oped, Firmin DeBrabander, Published on 13/02/2021
» Is privacy overrated?
200 years since the raising of the Argentine flag
Oped, Felipe Solá, Published on 13/11/2020
» Nov 6, 2020 marks an anniversary of great relevance in the protracted sovereignty dispute over the Question of the Malvinas Islands: On this date, 200 years ago, David Jewett, a US national at the service of the Argentine Navy, took possession of the Malvinas Islands (Falkland Islands), raising the Argentine flag on the islands for the first time.
Preserve our heritage, don't leave it to rot
Oped, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 11/07/2020
» Recent news reports that a bust of Chao Phraya Kosathibodi (Kosa Pan), one of the first Siamese ambassadors, was "stolen" from its plinth on the Rue de Siam in the French city of Brest shocked cultural enthusiasts.