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UFOs: The silly season comes early this time
Then there are all the suggestions that the UFOs are optical illusions, meteorological phenomena or electromagnetic events The Silly Season has come early this year. 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...
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Why Netanyahu, or someone like him, can’t lose in Israel
03 May 2021 | Gwynne Dyer -
Leaders Summit on Climate: The last chance saloon
26 April 2021 | Gwynne Dyer -
When Words Have No Meaning
19 April 2021 | Gwynne Dyer -
Quaking over Iran’s phantom nuclear weapons
12 April 2021 | Gwynne Dyer -
Myanmar should stick to non-violence to counter Tatmadaw
05 April 2021 | Gwynne Dyer -
Dragon’s threat real or imagined, but nuclear war will be a folly!
29 March 2021 | Gwynne Dyer -
Time to end the decade-long Syrian war and US sanctions
22 March 2021 | Gwynne Dyer
Afghanistan: The same sell-out, a different day
The US is abandoning Afghanistan, just like it abandoned South Vietnam, and it’s demanding that the puppet ruler give it political cover for withdrawal and take the blame In a letter to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani recently, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted that Ghani agree to share power with...
Quarantine Brazil, Now!
There is no evidence of community spread of P.1 in other countries yet, but it is only a matter of time If I were a world dictator, I would immediately place Brazil under total quarantine: Nobody gets in, nobody comes out. And I would keep it isolated until they arrest and...
The crown prince of amateurs
MBS is frightening but a Saudi leader that the US President won’t even talk to does not have a great future If Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, were a burglar, he wouldn’t be George Clooney in ‘Ocean’s Eleven’. He’d be a cartoon burglar in...
Texas must read up on global warming
Climate change doesn’t care whether you believe init or not. And it may get worse It’s not funny when people die of the cold but there was some innocent amusement to be had from the indignation of Texans unable to boil their drinking water during the ‘Big Freeze’ because the power...
What is wrong with the royals?
Dubai’s sheikh has 25 children, so he obviously loves kids, but his daughters keep trying to escape! Dubai can be amusing, in a voyeuristic way, for a week or two. The tallest building in the world and the mall with the shark tank, but it’s the people, really. There are a...
China in a tizzy to prevent ‘feminisation’ of male adolescents
This will eventually be resolved, as these things usually are, by the magic of generational turnover. The young will outlive the old and become the majority It seemed innocent enough at the start: Just a surge in the number of boys coming to school with notes from doctors saying they were...
Republican split the only way out?
It's a risk but genuine conservatives have no future in a party under Donald Trump anyway If the Republican Party splits, what name should the breakaway party use? The Conservative Party, maybe? This question has not become a burning issue yet, because it’s far from clear that the Republican Party...
