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The mystery of drone strikes
Though Pompeo blamed Iran for the attacks on Saudi oil, Trump doesn’t want a full-scale war with it and neither does the kingdom US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dismissed the Houthi claim that the Yemeni rebel group had carried out Saturday’s strike on two huge Saudi Arabian oil processing facilities....
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The game is not over yet
14 September 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
A political thug in blunderland
09 September 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
The burning truth about wildfires
04 September 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
Johnson makes his Brexit move
30 August 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
Greenland's gamble
26 August 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
In denial of converging global crises
23 August 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
A never-ending culture of war
16 August 2019 | Gwynne Dyer
Hong Kong: It's purely symbolic
So far the people have done well to send the right message to Beijing by playing the balancing act. But it’s now time for them to stop The anti-Government demonstrations in Hong Kong are now eight weeks old and still going strong but the level of violence is rising. A lot...
Bug-eyed monster issue
We need to have an international discussion about whether we should make our existence known should the SETI research yield a positive result There is absolutely no procedure enshrined in international law to respond to a signal from an alien civilisation,” said Martin Dominik, an astronomer at the University of St...
The last PM of a ‘united’ kingdom?
The British are living in interesting times. Their Government, now headed by Boris Johnson, is hell-bent to drag the UK out of the EU It has been suggested that Boris Johnson (who became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom yesterday) is what you would get if US President Donald Trump...
Ukraine: The third revolution
Volodymyr Zelensky will once again stand the test of Parliament. Right or wrong, most Ukrainians believe that he is the real thing No promises, so no disappointments,” said Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky during the election campaign that made him the President last May. It was a daring, even cynical thing for a...
Refugee issue is for real
The problem is not to do with war but poverty, dictatorial regimes and climate change. We may feel sorry for them but there is no legal duty to let them in Every once in a while, a photograph of a migrant’s tragic death (usually that of a child) catches the public’s...
Dysfunctional and divided
The hawks in the White House probably know that Iran is too proud to crumble but they don’t care because they actually want a war Iran has “begun its march...towards nuclear weaponry,” said Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz and that is technically correct. Only one year and 60 days after President...
Not just a late monsoon
Food production is falling, people are dying, massive water refugees are moving and unfortunately, it’s only going to get worse The monsoon rains are finally arriving in central and northern India but they are two weeks late. It started raining in Mumbai last week and it should be raining in Delhi...
