Gwynne Dyer

27 May 2012 Mali: The Dreams of Capt. Amadou Sanogo By Gwynne Dyer Imagine that you are a junior officer in a West African army. You joined the army at 18, you worked hard, you managed to get sent to the United States four times for various training courses, but somehow the promotions never came. [...]

23 May 2012 How the Afghan War Ends By Gwynne Dyer Last weekend’s NATO summit in Chicago was mostly about how to get NATO troops out of Afghanistan without causing too much embarrassment to the Western governments that sent them, and a little bit about how to ensure that the Taliban don’t take over again [...]

20 May 2012 The Triumph of English By Gwynne Dyer The second president of the United States, John Adams, predicted in 1780 that “English will be the most respectable language in the world and the most universally read and spoken in the next century, if not before the end of this one.” It is destined [...]

16 May 2012 Tibetans in Flames By Gwynne Dyer The number of Tibetans burning themselves to death in protests against Chinese policy has grown very fast recently: the first self-immolation was in 2009, but 22 of the 30 incidents happened in the past year. And while at first it was only Buddhist monks and nuns [...]