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North Korea and H5N1: A sense of proportion GWYNNE DYER

North Korea and H5N1: A sense of proportion

Western intelligence agencies have been warning for years about the terrible consequences...

December 25 2011
Suicide pact in Durban GWYNNE DYER

Suicide pact in Durban

he Durban climate summit that ended yesterday has been proclaimed a great success. The chair, South Africa’s International Relations Minister...

December 18 2011
Euro crisis: Barking up the wrong tree GWYNNE DYER

Euro crisis: Barking up the wrong tree

One senior European politician said angrily that British Prime Minister David Cameron was “like a man who comes to a wife-swapping party ...

December 15 2011
Women and the monotheisms GWYNNE DYER

Women and the monotheisms

One should not mock the sexual obsessions of Islamic fundamentalists; it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. When a senior academic in Saudi Arabia...

December 14 2011
Putin: The erosion of time GWYNNE DYER

Putin: The erosion of time

“Throughout the day, it was like receiving reports from a war zone,” said Communist Party Vice Chairman Ivan Melnikov Dec. 4...

December 07 2011
Rear-Guard Action in Durban GWYNNE DYER

Rear-Guard Action in Durban

The plans for a new global deal on climate change lie broken and abandoned. The usual suspects are meeting again, this time in Durban.

December 04 2011
Progress Report: the ‘Arab Autumn’ GWYNNE DYER

Progress Report: the ‘Arab Autumn’

The Arab Spring was fast and dramatic: Non-violent revolutions in the streets removed dictators in Tunisia and Egypt in a matter of weeks, and similar...

November 30 2011
The martyrdom of Yulia Tymoshenko GWYNNE DYER

The martyrdom of Yulia Tymoshenko

There are three obvious explanations for Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s behavior in the case of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who has just been sentenced to seven years in prison and a $186 million fine for a decision she made while in office that would never end up in court in a normal democratic country. None of the three reflect well on Yanukovych.

November 23 2011
The Heritage of the Monsters GWYNNE DYER

The Heritage of the Monsters

They didn’t invite the city fathers of Ferrol, the birthplace of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the bloody tyrant who ruled Spain from 1938 to 1973, so the conference can’t just have been about fascist dictators. They didn’t invite the mayor of Tokyo, home-town of General Hideki Tojo, who led Japan into World War II, so it wasn’t just about bad men who were leaders in that war. So what WAS it about?

November 23 2011