Cyril Ramaphosa and the Law By Gwynne Dyer It’s outrageous. You’re at your hobby farm in the country, just pottering around, so you stuff the $580,000 in your pocket under the sofa cushions temporarily just to get it out of the way. Then you forget it when you are gathering things up to go back […]
Venezuela: Things Could Change By Gwynne Dyer Bad things happen, and some of them are nobody’s fault. Big earthquakes in Venezuela are about a century apart (1812, 1902, 2026), so you can’t blame the planners and the politicians for not being well prepared for this one. How high a priority should they have given to
Donald Trump’s vision for how the war against Iran should end is simple: “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!!!!” Wait, no! Donald Trump also wants a veto on who will be Iran’s next leader – although, as he said, “The attack was so successful that it eliminated most of the candidates. It won’t be someone we thought of because
Donald Trump is not just Binyamin Netanyahu’s glove puppet, but it is remarkable how much influence the Israeli prime minister has over the American president. If you are seeking a reason why Trump felt the need to attack Iran again only nine months after he declared that he had eliminated any nuclear threat from that
Fidel Castro and his Communist band of brothers have had a good long run in power (66 years), but they have run out of road. Most of the relatively small Cuban middle class fled to the United States after the 1959 revolution, but the new regime certainly had mass popular support for at least the
Here’s what’s probably happening in Venezuela today. All over the country, army bases are quietly moving weapons and explosives out of storage and handing them out to loyal members of the ruling United Socialist Party. If Trump does put American ‘boots on the ground’, the Resistance will want those weapons to be widely distributed and
Last week Israel was the first country in the world to establish diplomatic relations with Somaliland. Not Somalia, a wreck of a country on the East African coast that has been mired in civil war for the past thirty-five years, but Somaliland, a different country just north of there that has been peaceful, relatively prosperous
US President Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all ‘sanctioned’ oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela ports, which is technically an act of war. How seriously should we take this? Trump has certainly threatened war with Venezuela in the past. Former US National Security advisor John Bolton reports that Trump said
“If you’re on a boat full of cocaine or fentanyl or whatever, headed to the United States, you’re an immediate threat to the United States,” said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week. So it’s perfectly reasonable for the US armed forces to kill everybody on that boat (including a ‘double tap’ on any
Q: Why do some Canadians want Trump to invade Venezuela? A: Because if Trump invades Venezuela first, he’ll get bogged down in that war and never get around to invading Canada. Actually, most Canadians are not thinking that, because a) Venezuela is not even on their mental maps, and b) they are not convinced that