Showing posts with label Gwynne Dyer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gwynne Dyer. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Coup by men not in the Army uniform (Gwynne Dyer, South Asia Monitor)

What's the difference between the coup that overthrew the elected Government in Thailand in 2014 and the coup that has now removed the elected Government in Brazil? The coup-makers in Thailand wore uniforms

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=inthenews&nid=17058

Tuesday, 19 April 2016

A climate emergency (Gwynne Dyer, Arab News)

If you spend a lot of time talking to scientists about climate change, there’s one word you’ll hear time and time again, and yet it’s hardly ever mentioned in the public discussion of climate change. The word is “non-linear.”

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/912561

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

European Union at risk (Gwynne Dyer, Arab News)

A recent headline on the leading French newspaper Le Monde said it all: “Migrants, the Euro, Brexit: The European Union is mortal.” And it’s true. The EU could actually collapse over these three threats.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/909536

Friday, 26 February 2016

Petulance: The English way (Gwynne Dyer, Arab News)

What would you call a country that called for “a structure under which (Europe) can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom... a kind of United States of Europe” at the end of the World War II (Winston Churchill, 1946), but refused to join that structure when its European neighbors actually began building it (European Economic Community, 1957)?

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/886376

Friday, 12 February 2016

North Korea’s nuclear deterrent (Gwynne Dyer, Arab News)

Here we go again. North Korea launched a ballistic missile of intercontinental range on Sunday, saying that it was just putting up a satellite, only weeks after it carried out its fourth nuclear weapons test, which it claimed was a hydrogen bomb. The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned it, and even the People’s Republic of China, North Korea’s only ally, expressed its “regret” at what the country had done.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/879216