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)'.
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.
Turkey's anxious Erdogan takes on the world
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not an "Islamist", in the extreme sense of the word.
The peace deal that forgets the Palestinians
The peculiar thing about the "peace deal" between Israelis and Palestinians that was announced in Washington on Tuesday was obvious at a single glance.
Coronavirus response reveals China's fatal weakness
In an emergency, the good thing about a dictatorship is that it can respond very fast. The bad thing is that it won't respond at all until the dictator-in-chief says that it should. All the little dictators who flourish in this sort of system won't risk their positions by passing bad news up the line until the risk of being blamed for delay outweighs the risk of being blamed for the emergency in the first place.
Time for the rich to erase proof of climate neglect?
Donald Trump's speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Monday contained no surprises.
Vladimir Putin the immortal hero?
Five years ago somebody posted photographs on the internet showing a man who looked a lot like Vladimir Putin in photographs from 1920 and 1941. In both shots he was in military uniform, defending the interests of the Russian people then as he still does today.
Climates of fear lead to 'shoot-downs'
One of the main causes of death for airline passengers in recent decades is being shot down by somebody's military. Not the very biggest, of course: accidents account for nine-tenths of all deaths in civilian airline crashes, and terrorist attacks and hijackings cause most of the rest. But a solid 2.5% of the deaths are due to trigger-happy people in military uniforms.
Dismantling Malta's mafia state
It's two years since Daphne Caruana Galizia, the best investigative journalist in Malta, was killed by a car bomb.
Missing all exits on Highway to Hell
'The point of no return is no longer over the horizon," warned UN secretary general Antonio Guterres as the 25th climate summit (COP25) opened in Madrid two weeks ago, and the multitude of delegates from more than a hundred countries presumably understood what he meant. But they ignored it anyway.
