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Prayers from afar
Oped, Postbag, Published on 25/12/2025
» Re: "Border conflict test big powers' resolve", (Opinion, Dec 23).
Our shared heritage
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/12/2025
» It is with a sense of sadness that I observe the deteriorating situation between Thailand and Cambodia. As neighbours, we have a shared part, present and future.
Gaza is being offered a big historic chance
Oped, John J. Metzler, Published on 27/11/2025
» The UN Security Council has approved a landmark American-sponsored resolution which just may give long suffering Gaza its final chance for peace and reconstruction. The US resolution enshrines Washington's 20-point plan for Gaza; the current ceasefire, the establishment of a Board of Peace and backs the creation and deployment of an international stabilisation force for the war-ravished territory. There were 13 votes for, none against, and two abstentions, Russia and China.
How a bad Trump edit became a global controversy
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/11/2025
» I have spent thousands of hours sitting alongside video editors working on productions quite similar to the Panorama documentary that has landed the British Broadcasting Corporation with the threat of a billion-dollar libel suit by Donald Trump. I think I know what happened.
UN assembly opens amidst wars, other woes
Oped, John J Metzler, Published on 23/09/2025
» Presidents, prime ministers, kings and potentates are converging on New York for the United Nations General Assembly session. The upcoming General Debate, starting today, will bring together a cast of thousands of delegates for 10 days.
The Trump melodrama: Relief is at hand
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/08/2025
» Nobody had been bothering for the past three years, but then along came Donald Trump, determined to shape a "peace deal" between two countries about which he knows little and cares less. Why? Just to win a bauble called the Nobel Peace Prize, because Barack Obama got it first and that wasn't fair.
China holds back for now over Taiwan
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/07/2025
» 'I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me we [the US and China] will fight in 2025," wrote General Mike Minihan, head of US Air Mobility Command, in a private memo two years ago. There are still five months to go, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that he's wrong.
Let's join the Santa Cruz Rebellion!
Oped, Joe Mathews, Published on 02/06/2025
» I want to move Santa Cruz to join the rebellion. Wanna come along?
Will we waste the AI opportunity?
Oped, Daron Acemoglu, Published on 25/02/2025
» I was fortunate to participate in the recent AI Action Summit in Paris, where many discussions emphasised the need to steer AI in a more socially beneficial direction.
Scramble for Wall St alternatives
Oped, Mike Dolan, Published on 21/02/2025
» Global investors finally appear to be doubting the wisdom of keeping all their eggs in one basket. A decade of exceptional US investment returns may, therefore, be cresting just as Donald Trump's "America First" programme returns to Washington.