15 July 2011 The End of the American Adventure in Space by Gwynne Dyer The Sun always shines in space, so it was no surprise when Sir Paul McCartney called the crew of Atlantis, the last Space Shuttle, on Friday and sang “Good Day Sunshine” to them. Later in the day President Barack Obama called …
16 June 2011 Risky Territory by Gwynne Dyer “We are getting into very risky territory,” said Christiana Figueres, head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, last week. But she acknowledged that we may have to go there anyway. She was talking about geo-engineering, the manipulation of the world’s climate to avoid catastrophic warming. …
28 May 2011 Libya: Running Out of Options by Gwynne Dyer They swore blind that there would never be foreign “boots on the ground” in Libya, but as NATO’s campaign against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime enters its third month it is getting a lot closer to the ground. It started with Tomahawk missiles fired from over …
25 March 2011 Libya and Altruism by Gwynne Dyer They have committed themselves to a war, but they have no plans for what happens after tomorrow night. They swear that they will never put ground troops into Libya, so their strategy consists solely of hoping that air strikes on Colonel Gadaffy’s air defence systems (and …
15 March 2011 Superstition: Nuclear Power vs. Coal by Gwynne Dyer Suppose that a giant hydro dam had crumbled under the impact of the biggest earthquake in a century and sent a wave of water racing down some valley in northern Japan. Imagine that whole villages and towns had been swept away, and that ten …
26 February 2011 Democracy and the Arabs by Gwynne Dyer One of the incidental pleasures of the past few weeks has been watching the Western media struggling to come to terms with the notion of Arab democracy. The Arabs themselves seem clear enough on the concept of a democratic revolution, but elsewhere there is much …
7 July 2005 London: Not Exactly the Blitz By Gwynne Dyer Tony Blair flew down from the G8 summit in Scotland especially to be with Londoners in their time of trial, and you can hardly blame him for that. It’s not that we needed him to take charge — it was only four smallish bombs, …