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Time for war on Zika ahead of Olympics
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/06/2016
» In the past, the only excuse for cancelling the Olympic Games has been a world war.But if this year's Games had been scheduled for somewhere in West Africa two years ago, when the Ebola outbreak was nearing its peak, they would certainly have been called off. So should the Olympic Games scheduled to begin in Rio de Janeiro on Aug 5 be cancelled, moved or postponed?
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What would happen if Brexit actually wins?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/06/2016
» After months in which opinion polls showed a 6-10% lead for the "Remain" side in the referendum campaign on continued British membership of the European Union, the numbers have suddenly shifted in favour of "Leave". The latest Guardian/ICM polls revealed that 52% of those polled favour Brexit (British exit from the EU), while only 48% want to stay in.
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Age of technology will need universal basic income
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/06/2016
» In a referendum on Sunday, Swiss voters rejected a proposal for a guaranteed annual income for everybody by an overwhelming 78% majority. But the idea was not crazy, and it is not going to go away.
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Macedonia's 'Colourful Revolution'
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/06/2016
» Abstract expressionism is no longer cutting-edge art in most places, but in one country it is enjoying a massive popular revival: Macedonia. The artists are at work day and night in the capital, Skopje, decorating public buildings and statues with splatters of every colour in the rainbow in a style clearly inspired by Jackson Pollock.
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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.
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Brexit stirs serious talk of apocalypse
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/06/2016
» How's this for apocalyptic? "As a historian I fear Brexit [a British vote to leave the European Union in the referendum on June 23] could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but also Western political civilisation in its entirety," said Donald Tusk, the president of the European Union, in an interview published on Monday in the German newspaper Bild.
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The long, loud silence from the Brexit leadership
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/06/2016
» Parliament met in London on Monday, so that MPs of every party could express their horror and disgust at the murder last Thursday of their colleague Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire. And on Monday everybody did, including the leaders of the Brexit campaign, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. But here's the odd thing: up to that point, the Brexit leaders had said nothing about it.
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Will it be Frexit, Nexit or Swexit?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/06/2016
» The EU is dying. I hope we've knocked the first brick out of the wall,” exulted Nigel Farage, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party. He proposed that June 23, the day when the British narrowly voted (with 51.8%) to leave the European Union, be a new national holiday called Independence Day.
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Face-off looms over South China Sea
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/07/2016
» Next Tuesday, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea will issue its ruling on China's claim to practically all of the South China Sea. And already the main military contenders are moving more forces into the region.
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Wrecked Iraq a symbol of stupidity
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/07/2016
» "Suppose that... the Iraqis feel ambivalent about being invaded and real Iraqis, not (just) Saddam's special guard, decide to offer resistance," wrote British prime minister Tony Blair to US president George W Bush in December 2001, two years before the US and the UK invaded Iraq. At least Mr Blair had some doubts, but neither man could really imagine that the Iraqis would see them as conquerors, not liberators.
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