GWYNNE DYER: COP26: There's a smidgen of hope in the air
Perhaps it’s the extreme weather of the past year or so that has put people into a more cooperative mood.
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GWYNNE DYER: Ethiopia and Nigeria: Dismantling Africa
Somaliland, Eritrea, South Sudan...who’s next?
Looking for the pain threshold: Why COP26 won’t deliver
Reaching the Paris goal would require a 45 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.
Will China invade Taiwan?
Further escalation by either side would be deterred by the fear of nuclear war, and some sort of deal would have to be ...
GWYNNE DYER: The Quad and next Cold War
What’s this all about?...sheer power in an almost abstract sense.
DYER: Are US, China too big to be equal?
Americans are used to these disparities, and can console themselves with the myth of ‘equal opportunity’.
Tigray: Sparta in Africa
Suddenly Ethiopia starts to look a lot like former Yugoslavia just before the civil wars of the 1990s split it into six ...
GWYNNE DYER: Afghanistan's recycled wars
This is not the first time that the country has been in such a mess
GWYNNE DYER: United Kingdom: 'Let the Bodies Pile High'
On Monday, with new Covid cases zooming past 50,000 a day and currently doubling every two weeks, Johnson announced the ...
GWYNNE DYER: Digital peasants and the ignorant rich
Omicron looks like it may be a big problem, and there could be even bigger ones behind it.