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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:...
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Iran is not playing a tit-for-tat game
07 January 2020 | Gwynne Dyer -
English turkeys vote for Christmas
23 December 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
70 years of a comatose NATO
04 December 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
Savour win, don’t push your luck
26 November 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
The tribalisation of politics
18 November 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
Not a coup, just a big blunder
12 November 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
Breaking down barriers
09 November 2019 | Gwynne Dyer
Who is the winner?
The truth is that Russia has won the prize in Middle East politics but the reward is a can of worms The death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi serves as a symbolic full stop to the many civil wars that have engulfed Syria in the last eight years, although Baghdadi...
More to this than meets the eye
The Turkish-Syrian border drama could have been masterminded by Russia to get USA out and restore the Assad Govt’s control over eastern Syria Russia and its Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad win, the Kurds lose, and the United States (US) leaves in disgrace. It has been a hectic few days on the...
Time to take the winnings and go
Protesters in Hong Kong have won the withdrawal of the extradition law but their other demands will never be met by the Communist Party of China After the 17th consecutive weekend of increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong, the first protester was wounded by a live bullet last week. The 18-year-old...
Old Ottoman habits die hard
The Turkish President’s party lost control of all big cities in the last poll so it's time to beat the Kurds. This time it's going to be the Kurds, who live in northern Syria, just across the border from the Turkish ones The Ottoman Empire, like many of its Middle...
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....
The game is not over yet
It’s not time to give up on survival as yet. But we do need more time as it’s theoretically possible to hold the global temperature down Jonathan Franzen has finally seen the light. Unfortunately, it has blinded him. The distinguished American novelist and essayist wrote a piece in the current issue...
A political thug in blunderland
Salvini, a hard-Right populist who thought he could force an early election and become Italy’s strongman by breaking up the coalition Government he served in, has publicly cut his own throat There is something very gratifying about watching a political thug get hoist with his own petard. Matteo Salvini, the hard-Right...
