Gwynne Dyer
Independent journalist
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. His new book is 'Growing Pains: The Future of Democracy (and Work)'.
Will Hungary be outbreak's first casualty?
'Hello, dictator!" said Jean-Claude Juncker cheerily to Hungary's leader, Victor Orban, at a European Union summit meeting a couple of years ago. The president of the European Commission was only joking, of course, but it was gallows humour. Dictatorship was clearly where Mr Orban was heading -- and now he has arrived.
Save the old or save the economy?
The basic choice all along with Covid-19 has been: Do we let the old die, or do we take a big hit economically?
Covid-19 offers odd glimpse of a new future
Covid-19 is certainly not going to change the world forever, but it is going to change quite a few things, in some cases for a long time.
Nations facing lengthy lockdowns to prevent spread
Most of the countries in Asia, Europe and North America are now in lockdown to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus. This is the 'suppression' strategy, and it should keep the death rate from going exponential for a while. The unanswered question is: what do we do next?
Bibi, Benny and Ruvi: Israel's future
Benjamin Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's history, and still in office although he has failed to win three elections in a row.
A glimpse of the looming migrant 'Armageddon'
Turkey has opened the floodgates, and soon Europe will be drowning in immigrants.
Kristallnacht for India's Muslims?
The anti-Muslim pogrom in northeastern Delhi last week only killed 43 people, and a few of them weren't even Muslims. But then on Kristallnacht ("The Night of Broken Glass") in Germany in 1938, only 91 Jews were killed. It was still a Nazi declaration of war on the Jews, and a forewarning of the 6 million Jewish deaths to come.
Assange hearing takes cues from Pentagon Papers
The cost of being a whistle-blower is going up. When Daniel Ellsberg stole and published the Pentagon Papers in 1971, revealing the monstrous lies that the US government was telling the American public about the Vietnam war, he was arrested and tried, but the court set him free.
Germany, Japan and the war on fuel rationality
Germany and Japan are finally winning a war together. Unfortunately, it is the War on Rationality.
Is the Wuhan 'devil virus' a 'black swan'?
China officially went back to work on Monday, after an extended two-week Lunar New Year holiday.