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Saudi Game of Thrones
Muhammad bin Salman has many options at hand to save himself. He is likely to stay in power, perhaps to the ultimate ruin of the country he rules Now is the moment of maximum danger for Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman (MbS). He has weathered the...
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Populism: It's the automation, stupid
04 December 2018 | Gwynne Dyer -
Shared delusions about Iran
27 November 2018 | Gwynne Dyer -
From denial to confession
19 November 2018 | Gwynne Dyer -
What went wrong?
13 November 2018 | Gwynne Dyer -
Brexit and the Irish border
05 November 2018 | Gwynne Dyer -
Silence on Yemen is deafening
30 October 2018 | Gwynne Dyer -
Idiots on both sides
25 October 2018 | Gwynne Dyer
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...
New chapter in Iraqi leadership
Corruption in Iraq is a system, not a series of individual crimes, and the beneficiaries of the system will fight tooth and nail to preserve it Fifteen years after George W Bush invaded Iraq to destroy Saddam Hussein’s imaginary ‘weapons of mass destruction’, what have the Iraqis got to show for...
Life exists but will our civilisation survive?
High-energy technological civilisations successfully pass through energy-environment bottleneck. But not many do so without suffering major losses The universe is a pretty big place, as Carl Sagan once remarked. “If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” The Drake Equation is gradually filling out, and it’s looking good...
Thirty minutes in Salisbury and two Russians
The clumsy and self-defeating actions of the Russian Government, asking the two Salisbury poisoning suspects to explain their brief trip to the public, are indicators of how far the rot in Putin’s regime has gone Salisbury is a nice old English town with a fine cathedral, only an hour and a...
A global standard for human rights?
Is there such a thing as global culture? Consider gay rights. It belongs to the same category of social innovation as the end of slavery and rise of feminism The Indian Supreme Court decriminalised homosexuality on September 6. Last April, a court in Trinidad and Tobago found colonial-era laws banning gay...
No more Palestinian refugees
Donald Trump’s efforts to erase Palestinian people have a serious flaw. They may be hungry but probably not hungry enough to surrender unconditionally Who said this? “The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances...
High seas need to get fishy again
A high-seas treaty cannot repair the oceans that are already badly damaged but offers a real possibility of providing a large safe haven for the fish population to recover, at least for a while Nobody loves the United Nations. It’s a bureaucracy, and its job is to make rules. But where...
