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Khashoggi death: Worse than a crime
The killing of the Saudi journalist was definitely a blunder. Mohammed bin Salman thinks he can make foreigners shut up but his very own family can probably bring him down If Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), did really send a hit team to Turkey to...
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New chapter in Iraqi leadership
08 October 2018 | Gwynne Dyer -
Life exists but will our civilisation survive?
02 October 2018 | Gwynne Dyer -
Thirty minutes in Salisbury and two Russians
20 September 2018 | Gwynne Dyer -
A global standard for human rights?
14 September 2018 | Gwynne Dyer -
No more Palestinian refugees
08 September 2018 | Gwynne Dyer -
High seas need to get fishy again
03 September 2018 | Gwynne Dyer -
Autumn offensive in Syria
27 August 2018 | Gwynne Dyer
Corbyn, Palestinians and Brexit
It is plausible to think that Jeremy Corbyn might lose the leadership as it is becoming clear that he is the main reason labour doesn’t enjoy a big lead in the opinion polls It sounds like a tempest in a teapot but it could bring down Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of...
It's a long-term strategy
The ICC wasn’t created to overthrow people like Duterte. Its real function is to provide a legal way for punishing members of a criminal regime after it has collapsed Here’s the good news. last February, the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague opened an inquiry into alleged crimes against humanity...
Our future: Hothouse earth
The scientific word is out: We have already passed the point where a return to the stable climate of the past 14,000 years is possible and we are on course for ‘hothouse earth’ It would be churlish to ask what took them so long. let us be grateful instead that the...
Arduous path to democracy
The general direction of travel in South-East Asia and elsewhere is still towards democracy, but it’s a longer journey than it looks A quarter-century before the Arab Spring of 2011, there was a democratic spring in South-East Asia: The Philippines in 1986, Burma in 1988, Thailand in 1992 and Indonesia in...
Where will it all endij
Vagaries of climate change are such that it’s going to get worse before it gets better. When dealing with the future, you can only deal in probabilities; and even those are very dodgy This is Armageddon Summer in the northern hemisphere: Out-of-control wildfires all around the Arctic Circle (not to mention...
Zimbabwe goes to polls in showdown vote
Zimbabwe’s first free elections are set to change the nation’s course but it’s difficult to tell who’s best to save the economy: New blood or old tyrantIJ I am as soft as wool. I am a very soft person in life,” Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa told the BBC in a recent interview,...
Changing Syria's demography
Syria is no place to be if you are in the bad books of the regime. With the fall of Deraa, the end of Syria’s civil war is within sight. What will the victorious Ba'ath Party doIJ With the fall of Deraa, the end of Syria’s civil war is within sight....
