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China is expanding PLA despite a failing economy
The next great war may come out of some damned foolish thing in the South China Sea or the East China Sea Alliances are as old as civilisation. Older, actually: almost every hunter-gatherer band that anthropologists have studied, from the New Guinea highlanders to the Yanomamo in the Amazon, made alliances...
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How climate change causes ‘geoengineering’ scam
06 January 2023 | Gwynne Dyer -
Will Russia play the ‘Cuban card’?
22 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
07 January 2021 | Gwynne Dyer
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:...
Iran is not playing a tit-for-tat game
In just one careless stroke by the US, Iran has had two big diplomatic wins thanks to Soleimani’s assassination. The Iranians will probably just chug along as before, cultivating their allies in the Arab world and waiting for Trump to make his next mistake in their favour If the Iranians played...
