Gwynne Dyer

20 March 2013 Cyprus Bank Robbery By Gwynne Dyer Could a failed bank robbery in Cyprus cause the collapse of the euro? It’s hard to imagine how anything that happens in Cyprus, with less than one million people, could bring down the common currency shared by three hundred million Europeans, but there are few human [...]

16 March 2013 Iraq Ten Years Later By Gwynne Dyer Why did George W. Bush choose 19 March, 2003 to invade Iraq, rather than some day in May, or July, or never? Because he was afraid that further delay would give United Nations arms inspectors time to refute the accusation (his sole pretext for making [...]

14 March 2013 The Koreas: The Risk of Miscalculation By Gwynne Dyer The joint US-South Korean military exercises known as “Key Resolve” and “Foal Eagle” have got underway, and so far the heavens have not fallen. The American forces have not launched an unprovoked assault on North Korea, despite the strident claims of Pyongyang’s media [...]

10 March 2013 Afghanistan: The Najibullah Syndrome By Gwynne Dyer “Yesterday’s bombings (in Afghanistan) in the name of the Taliban were aimed at serving the foreigners and supporting the presence of the foreigners in Afghanistan and keeping them in Afghanistan by intimidating us,” said Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai on Sunday. What on Earth could he [...]