Iran’s Virtual Nukes By Gwynne Dyer “Devastating Iran’s nuclear facilities was…very hard to do,” Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly last month, “but for me it was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make as prime minister. Because if we hadn’t done it, we’d all be […]
Brazilian Election By Gwynne Dyer “Flávio Bolsonaro is Trump’s candidate and what Trump wants is to colonise Brazil, take our riches, steal our future and leave us in the dust,” claims the latest video released by President Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva’s re-election campaign. The weird thing is about half of Brazil’s voters would be
War in Ethiopia By Gwynne Dyer Another October coming up, and still the Nobel Peace Prize Committee refuses to give Donald Trump his Prize. They even gave one to Barak Obama, who was Black and a Democratic and had only been in office for twenty minutes. Meanwhile, they ignore a man truly worthy of the
Carney’s Campaign by Gwynne Dyer “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose,” said former New York Governor Mario Cuomo forty years ago. Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is now in the poetic phase of his campaign to create an alliance – maybe just a loose alliance – of middle powers who can resist the
Space War and Other Distractions By Gwynne Dyer When Troy Meink, the chief of the US Space Force, announces for no obvious reason that the United States “now has on-orbit space-control weapons”, people naturally assume that something is up. Why is Meink admitting the truth now? He’s even boasting about it! It can’t be to
Not AI Doom By Gwynne Dyer Somebody was bound to sound the alarm eventually. In this case it was a young British artificial intelligence researcher called Jacob Coxon, who quit his job at the AI company Anthropic to warn the world that “if we don’t slow down the current rate of progress, there is a
Israel: Settler Terrorists By Gwynne Dyer It has been a year since Canada, France and the United Kingdom officially recognised the State of Palestine (under Israeli occupation, final border to be determined). The killings by Israelis settlers and their military supporters in the West Bank are getting worse, so it was time for the next
Climate: “No Good Outcomes” By Gwynne Dyer “El Niño is being supersized before our eyes,” said United Nations Secretary General António Guterres. “The science leaves no room for doubt: the planet is in uncharted waters, and those waters are heating up. The world is in the danger zone of extreme weather.” He’s right: we are
‘Wait for September’. By Gwynne Dyer Making predictions in print is rarely a good idea, and saying ‘I told you so’ is always rude, but rules are made to be broken. On 10 June, one week before the short-lived ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ (MoU) on the Middle East war was signed, I wrote a piece on
Nancy Roman Telescope By Gwynne Dyer Last Sunday (30 August) a Falcon Heavy rocket delivered the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope onto a direct transit trajectory to its permanent home at the Lagrange Two Point (L2) 1.5 million km. from Earth. In 100 days it will reach its station, power up, and start observing the