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Monkeypox is no pandemic, not as deadly as Covid
But there will be much worse pandemics coming down the road in the future, and the world needs to be better prepared Monkeypox is very unpleasant and it spreads very fast, but it's not a real killer: 16,000 cases in 75 countries in just a couple of months is impressive, but...
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Nuclear Iran is a disappointment but not a disaster
21 July 2022 | Gwynne Dyer -
Great multicultural experiment succeeds in West
18 July 2022 | Gwynne Dyer -
How a band of brothers destroyed Sri Lanka
13 July 2022 | Gwynne Dyer -
Boris Johnson fell not because of his stupid lies
09 July 2022 | Gwynne Dyer -
Bizarre Cuban Missile Crisis redux in Nicaragua
07 July 2022 | Gwynne Dyer -
Israel: All turbulence in politics is about Netanyahu
27 June 2022 | Gwynne Dyer -
South Africa: Anti-graft Prez faces scam charges
23 June 2022 | Gwynne Dyer
US helps Ukraine but ensures war doesn’t go nuclear
President Joe Biden’s prime duty is to keep the United States safe, not to put the Ukrainian border back where it used to be How would we know if the United States is deliberately starving Ukraine of weapons in order to force it into a compromise peace settlement that leaves some...
Latin America’s pink tide may reach Colombia
Pink tide denotes rise of social democrats in contradistinction with ‘red tide’ of Communist and other hard-left militants Corruption isn't fought with slogans on TikTok,” complained veteran Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Petro. But social media can win elections, and a Rightwing dark horse called Rodolfo Hernández, who calls himself the ‘King...
Boris Johnson averts crisis but still in unsafe zone
The public has turned against him; the Labour Party has been leading the Conservatives in opinion polls Cad.’ ‘Scoundrel.’ ‘Rotter.’ The words that members of the British public used to describe Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the aftermath of last weekend’s failed attempt by parliamentary members of his own Conservative Party...
How to stop sea level rise
The problem is actually smaller than it seems Ninety per cent of ice flowing to the sea from the Antarctic ice sheet, and about half of that lost from Greenland, travels in narrow, fast ice streams measuring tens of kilometres or less across. Stemming the largest flows would allow the ice sheets...
Taiwan: The Codger Misspeaks Again - or Does He?
Joe Biden did not actually promise to commit American forces to defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion Well, my dear, we didn’t know where to look. The old codger was getting away with it again, fielding the questions like a man only nine-tenths of his age, and then somebody asked him...
Russia will not disappear soon
Russian President Vladimir Putin will almost certainly not be in power three years from now. The war he foolishly began in Ukraine has fatally undermined his political credibility among the Russian elite (and among a large though mostly silent part of the population). One way or another, he will be replaced. He...
Farewell neutrality: Sweden and Finland
Both are very much in the same position as Ukraine militarily It’s easy to imagine Vladimir Putin coming into the shop marked ‘Sweden’, breaking some fine china accidentally on purpose, and growling: ‘Nice little shop you’ve got here. It would be a pity if something happened to it.’ But Sweden is...
