Gwynne Dyer

The demonstrations began again in Iran last week, only two years after the ‘Woman! Life! Freedom!’ movement convulsed the country for months. However, the current protests are potentially much broader ...

The Russian word ‘derzhavnost’ is usually translated as ‘great power status’, but the real meaning is closer to the gangland concept of ‘respect’. The word was beyond the reach of ...

US President Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all ‘sanctioned’ oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuelan ports, which is technically an act of war. How seriously ...

A few days ago the European Union’s Earth Observation programme, ‘Copernicus’, made a special announcement at the end of its monthly report on the state of the climate. It ...

“If you’re on a boat full of cocaine or fentanyl or whatever, headed to the United States, you’re an immediate threat to the United States,” said US Secretary ...

Elon Musk promised to build a spaceship that would put people and cargo into Earth orbit at one-hundredth of the current cost per kilo and even enable human beings to ...

By Gwynne Dyer Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu, has just asked the country’s president, Isaac Herzog, to “fully pardon” him of all three charges –  bribery, fraud and ...

If the Ukrainians feel the time has come to surrender to the Russians, they don’t need Donald Trump’s help. The ‘ungrateful’ wretches can do that for themselves. The ...

Twenty years of strict sanctions on Iran by both the United States and the United Nations did not bring down the regime of the ayatollahs. Half a dozen major waves ...

I have spent thousands of hours sitting alongside video editors working on productions quite similar to the Panorama documentary that has landed the British Broadcasting Corporation with the threat of ...

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper,” wrote TS Eliot in 1925, probably responding to the profoundly unsatisfactory aftermath of the First World War (...

Q: Why do some Canadians want Trump to invade Venezuela? A: Because if Trump invades Venezuela first, he’ll get bogged down in that war and never get around to ...

Javier Milei, the Elon Musk wannabe who became president of Argentina two years ago chainsaw in hand, is now in deep trouble with the voters, and the mid-term elections are ...

“The thing that comforts me,” said Jeff Boudier at Hugging Face, the leading open platform for AI builders, “is that the internet was built on the ashes of the over-investment ...

When a bad man does a good thing, we should honour him for it even if his motives are selfish. Donald Trump is only trying to ‘bring peace to the ...

Last February, Donald Trump and his heir apparent JD Vance launched a televised frontal attack on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the White House, telling him that Ukraine had “no ...

Last February, Donald Trump and his heir apparent JD Vance launched a televised frontal attack on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, telling him that Ukraine had “no ...

Ten more countries are recognising Palestine as a sovereign state in the course of this week. That merely brings the total up from 147 to 157, but it’s a big deal ...

“Nato is responding with unity and strength,” said British defence secretary John Healey. “If you’ve got drones that are putting Polish lives at risk, then Nato will take them ...

If Donald Trump were a religious man, he might have said “There but for the grace of God go I” when he heard that former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has ...

I’ll get to the Russian drones shot down over Poland, but I’ll start with the Israeli air strikes on Qatar because that’s a much bigger deal. Israel ...

There is no ‘New World Order’, although there is certainly a new world disorder. The ‘rules-based international order’ that was created after the Second World War, mainly under American leadership, ...

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, ‘Africa No Filter’ and ‘Speak Up Africa’, launched a “Change the Map” campaign in April. “When whole generations, in Africa and elsewhere, learn from a distorted ...

“I love deadlines,” said Douglas Adams, author of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’. “I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” Donald Trump sets deadlines ...