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UFOs: The Silly Season is coming early
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/06/2021
» Normally it happens in August, when wicked people all over the northern hemisphere temporarily stop doing evil things to take their children to the beach and enjoy the last of the summer. With no bad news to report, desperate journalists will run any story, however silly.
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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.
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Israel and Hamas: Lies and a glimpse of truth
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/05/2021
» First, three lies. The Gaza offensive has yielded "unprecedented military gains", said Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz. The ceasefire last week amounted to a "victory" for the Palestinian people and a defeat for Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, said a Hamas official. But the ceasefire brings "genuine opportunity" for progress, said US President Joe Biden.
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Belarus: An unexpected opportunity
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/05/2021
» Poland's Prime Minister Mateus Morawiecki has condemned the "hijacking" of the Ryanair jet on the orders of Belarus's President Alexander Lukashenko, accusing him of a "reprehensible act of state terrorism".
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When robots will be caring for humans
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/05/2021
» The birth rates are falling fast in all the world's more prosperous countries, but the generation now in their middle years have not yet grasped what that means for their later years. If they end up needing some sort of assisted living, either at home or in a care home, they will probably be looked after by a robot.
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When 'mowing the grass' will no longer do
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/05/2021
» 'We didn't want this conflict, but now that it's started it has to end with a sustained period of quiet," said Mark Regev, spokesman for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "That can only be achieved by Israel taking out Hamas -- their military structure, their command and control." Or, as the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) would put it, by "mowing the grass".
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Objective allies: Netanyahu and Hamas militants
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/05/2021
» 'Objective allies' generally don't even talk to each other. They don't have common values, their ultimate goals may be completely incompatible, they often hate each other. But they share some intermediate goal, and are clever enough to realise they can both get what they want by acting together in certain ways.
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Napoleon and world history: What if...?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/05/2021
» Napoleon Bonaparte doesn't come up much in conversation these days, which is hardly surprising given that he has been dead for two centuries. On the other hand, today will be exactly 200 years since he died, so maybe we could make an exception just this once.
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Someone like 'Bibi' can't lose in Israel
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/05/2021
» A tempest in a small teapot this week, as Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Israel of "apartheid".
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Genocide in Armenia: Call it what it was
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/04/2021
» Following in the path of 31 other countries including Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Russia, and Brazil, the United States on Saturday at last "recognised" the Armenian genocide. Not that the United States ever denied it, but it officially avoided the word "genocide" for 106 years for fear of angering the Turks.
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