OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Assad secures improbable victoryCOMMENT: Do the outside powers that have intervened in the war accept Bashar al-Assad's victory, or do they keep the war going?29 Nov 04:00 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Nepotism ends dynastic rule in South KoreaCOMMENT: Park Geun-hye has 15 months left of her five-year term, but she is finished politically, and that just feels sad.21 Nov 04:00 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerUS being left behind in climate change fightCOMMENT: Even before Donald Trump hijacked the Republican Party, he was loudly declaring that the science of climate change, like President Barack Obama, had not been born in the United States.16 Nov 04:00 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Three miracles needed to keep Greece in EUAfter the IMF took part in the 2010 bail-out it was deeply embarrassed. It had broken its own rules, and found it hard to admit it, writes Gwynne Dyer.07 Jul 12:11 AM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Rebels had reason to unleash poison gasWhy would anyone believe Seymour Hersh?15 Apr 05:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Tyrants face the music with little to fear'I prefer death to surrender," said Pakistan's former military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, on April 1 to the special court that is trying him on five counts of high treason.08 Apr 05:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGywnne Dyer: World's grim future warm and hungryIf you want to go on eating regularly in a rapidly warming world, live in a place that's high in latitude or high in altitude.03 Apr 08:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Ukraine needs cash and careful handlingThe Yanukovych era is finished; the former president will not make another comeback, writes Gwynne Dyer. He has killed too many people.25 Feb 04:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Bloody toll leaves Ukraine's president no choiceWhen a Government announces an "anti-terror operation", that generally means it has decided to kill some people.20 Feb 04:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Extreme weather a little payback for temperate emittersThe standard climate change predictions said people in the tropics and the sub-tropics would be badly hurt by global warming.18 Feb 04:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Snowden's mission: helping us control the spiesIt's always dangerous to declare "mission accomplished". Former US president George W. Bush did it weeks after he invaded Iraq, and it will be quoted in history books a century hence as proof of his arrogance and his ignorance.29 Dec 04:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: North Korean turmoil will have China and US on edgePurges in Communist states have rarely stopped with the execution of one senior party member.17 Dec 04:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: China and Japan playing risky game of chickenSince China declared an "Air Defence Identification Zone" (ADIZ) that covers the disputed islands called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese.01 Dec 04:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Republican hardliners calling the shotsEighty per cent of the Republicans in the House of Representatives don't have to worry about what the general public thinks, writes Gwynne Dyer.07 Oct 04:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Greek raid lesson from Germany's pastTwo governments did bold, brave things last week. One of them quit and called a new election even though it had a viable majority in Parliament.01 Oct 04:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Use law to stop rape being an African problemLast May, with considerable trepidation, I wrote an article about what seemed to be extraordinarily high rates of rape in Africa.17 Sep 05:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Casual diplomacy produces unexpected rabbitWhen someone pulls a rabbit out of a hat, it's natural to be suspicious. Magicians are professionals in deceit - and so are diplomats. But sometimes the rabbit is real.11 Sep 09:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerRussians switch off + put up with PutinWhy do Russians continue put up with being ruled by Vladimir Putin, asks Gwynne Dyer, when there are alternatives available?08 Sep 05:30 PM
OpinionVote avoids shame of unwinnable war'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" - so the British Parliament decided that it didn't want to be shamed over Syrian intervention, writes Gwynne Dwyer.04 Sep 12:00 AM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: The secret's out - US spies are in the darkEvery step onward increases the scale and complexity of the computer systems, until they are too big and complex for any one person to understand, writes Gwynne Dyer.01 Sep 05:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Monogamy vs adultery - it's about survival of the speciesScience writer Matt Ridley once described the human mating system as "monogamy plagued by adultery," which sounds a little judgmental.06 Aug 05:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Nelson Mandela's South African legacyAs I write this, Nelson Mandela is still with us, writes Gwynne Dyer. "How will South Africa do without him? Wrong question. In practice, South Africa has been doing without him for more than a decade."13 Jun 09:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Ethiopian dam spells water woes for EgyptEgypt depends utterly on irrigation water from the Nile to grow its food. Even now there is not enough and Egypt's population is still growing fast, writes Gwynne Dyer.04 Jun 05:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Deciphering the double speak on Syrian solutions and securitySometimes, in diplomacy, a translator is not enough. You need a code-breaker.02 Jun 05:30 PM
OpinionGwynne DyerGwynne Dyer: Want a gun? Just go and photocopy oneNot everybody in the world, exactly, but at least everybody with $8000 to buy a 3D printer on e-Bay, or access to one of the 3D printing shops, writes Gwynne Dyer.20 May 05:30 PM
