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Will Russia play the ‘Cuban card’?
But Russia stopped being Communist 30 years ago After a week of intense discussions about ‘security’ between Russia and the NATO countries, this is the week when the Western allies will send their written replies to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Various pundits, some of whom have actually been to Russia, warn...
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COVID-19 fatigue: The end is not in sight
17 January 2022 | Gwynne Dyer -
Kazakhstan: A quarrel among thieves
13 January 2022 | Gwynne Dyer -
Industrialisation of Space
11 January 2022 | Gwynne Dyer -
N-Power: Missing Piece of the Puzzle
08 January 2022 | Gwynne Dyer -
Navalny is a thorn in Putin’s side but he’s no Lenin
25 January 2021 | Gwynne Dyer -
Lady Luck has been very kind to Biden
19 January 2021 | Gwynne Dyer -
No need to cry for America
11 January 2021 | Gwynne Dyer
Assange is safe, for now
America had worked hard to get around natural British reluctance to extradite a non-American, non-resident to the US, for a political crime Recently, a British judge finally rejected America’s attempt to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and jail him forever (or at least for 175 years in a high-security “supermax” prison)...
The unfruitful spring
The problem resides in the Arab world, where the political climate has only two seasons: Brief springs and very long winters Ten years ago in the middle of December, Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Tunisia, set himself alight in front of a Government building in rage at the corrupt dictatorship...
A wave in favour of choice
Abortion is currently an issue in many countries and in almost every one of them there’s a majority in favour of it among the younger population Get your rosaries off our ovaries,” chanted the women marching in support of the referendum that made abortion legal in Ireland in 2018. Two years...
Populists turning reckless in wake of Trump’s defeat?
It’s just straws in the wind right now, but his loss is creating a sense in other populist-ruled nations that the juggernaut has stalled There is nothing wrong in participating in a sex party of any kind. However, such meetings with many people are illegal under the Coronavirus laws,” said a...
Middle East set to lose its clout
As the climate emergency deepens, oil-guzzling motor vehicles are switching to electricity instead. That does not bode well for oil-rich nations The only officials present were American and Saudi,” tweeted the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, but he was either mistaken or was not telling the...
The enigma named Putin
What the Russian Premier needs is a position that gives him the final say when big changes loom but lets him abjure from daily exercise of power Five years ago somebody posted photographs on the internet showing a man who looked a lot like Vladimir Putin in photographs from 1920 and 1941....
Collateral damage of political paranoia
All these shoot-downs of civilian jets by trigger-happy militaries around the world are fundamentally a political phenomenon, not a technical malfunction or mere human error One of the main causes of death of airline passengers in recent decades is being shot down by somebody’s military. Not the very biggest, of course:...
