29 March 2023 Israel: The Fascists and the Fanatics By Gwynne Dyer Imagine that Donald Trump had been the president of the United States, in office and out and in and out and in yet again, for more than half of the past 25 years. What would the US look like today? Well, that’s about …
27 March 2023 Precision Fermentation: Catastrophe Lifeline By Gwynne Dyer On Saturday Asteroid 2023 DZ2 flew by our planet at 27,000 km per hour, closer to us than it was to the Moon. It was less than one-hundredth of the diameter of the gigantic asteroid that took down the dinosaurs and most other animals 66 …
23 March 2023 UN Climate Report: Clutching at Straws By Gwynne Dyer The final report of the United Nation’s climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has come out at last. The desperate optimism that characterised the last few volumes (this is Part Four of four) has frayed away to almost nothing. UN …
19 March 2023 ICC Arrest Warrant on Putin By Gwynne Dyer Although the arrest warrant issued on Russian President Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court last week was welcome, there was a certain puzzlement about the actual crime he is being charged with. This is a man who launched an unprovoked invasion of a …
14 March 2023 Freddy and the Ice: Messages From the Future By Gwynne Dyer Two new things on the climate front this week, both bad news. Hurricanes* used to be like drive-by shootings: one pass, one hit and then gone. Now they’re starting to come back for a second hit. And until now scientists only …
12 March 2023 China: The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves By Gwynne Dyer Xi Jinping was confirmed in a third term as president of China at the National People’s Congress last week, and not one of the 3,000 delegates voted against him. Why would they? Everything is perfect in the People’s Republic of Oz, …
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8 March 2023 ‘General Winter’ Missed the Bus By Gwynne Dyer “The cold is coming soon,” gloated former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev last June. He predicted that the citizens of the European Union, deprived of the Russian gas that normally supplied about 40% of their energy, would be freezing in their homes when ‘General Winter’ …
5 March 2023 Starmer and Gray: A Dastardly Plot? By Gwynne Dyer At first, it just looked like dumb luck. Less than a year after he was driven from office by his own party, former British prime minister Boris Johnson was getting his final comeuppance. The cross-party Privileges Committee that was created to determine whether …
1 March 2023 Israeli Pogrom By Gwynne Dyer The dictionary definition of ‘pogrom’ is “an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.” So there is something deeply strange about hearing ‘pogrom’ used in Hebrew to describe …