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Cyprus Bank Robbery
by Gwynne Dyer Could a failed bank robbery in Cyprus cause the collapse of the euro? It's hard to imagine how anything that happens in Cyprus, with less than one million people, could bring down the...
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A War in Korea?
by Gwynne Dyer The U.S.-South Korean military exercises will continue until the end of this month, and the North Korean threats to do something terrible if they do not stop grow more hysterical by the...
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The Passing of Margaret Thatcher
by Gwynne Dyer Margaret Thatcher was the woman who began the shift to the right that has affected almost all the countries of the West in the past three decades. She died in London on Monday, 34 years...
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Parkinson's Law Expanded
by Gwynne Dyer"Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," wrote Cyril Northcote Parkinson in 1955, and instantly created a whole new domain in the study of human affairs....
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The Battle for Burma
by Gwynne Dyer Last month, as the anti-Muslim violence in Burma spread from Rakhine state in western Burma to the central Burmese city of Meiktila, Aung San Suu Kyi sat among the generals on the...
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Drones and Guantanamo
by Gwynne Dyer John Bellinger is the last person in Washington you'd expect to criticize President Barack Obama for making too many drone strikes. It was he who drafted the (rather unconvincing) legal...
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3D Guns
by Gwynne Dyer The story so far: Cody Wilson, who describes himself as a "crypto-anarchist" and almost certainly wears a Second Amendment belt-buckle, had a bright idea early last year. No government...
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What Drives Shinzo Abe?
by Gwynne Dyer Shinzo Abe, now six months into his second try at being prime minister of Japan, is a puzzling man. In his first, spectacularly unsuccessful go in 2006-07, he was a crude nationalist...
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An African Iceberg?
by Gwynne Dyer Keeping a file of random clippings is an old-fashioned thing to do, but sometimes it offers you unexpected connections. Sometimes it's a connection that you don't even want to see.…[...
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The Peaceful World
by Gwynne Dyer Imagine for a moment that all the wars of the world have come to a peaceful conclusion. Most violent crime against people and property has also been eradicated.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe...
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Drums Along the Nile
by Gwynne Dyer Beware the open mike. Last week Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi summoned senior politicians of all parties to discuss Ethiopia's plan to dam the main tributary of the Nile river.…[...
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Mandela's Legacy
by Gwynne Dyer As I write this Nelson Mandela is still with us. He may even still be living at the end of this year.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Poison Gas and Red Lines
by Gwynne Dyer Fool me once, shame on you. (The Taliban regime in Afghanistan helped al-Qaeda to plan 9/11.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Afghanistan: The Quest for a "Decent Interval"
by Gwynne Dyer History does not exactly repeat itself: the final outcome of the American intervention in Afghanistan will not be the same as the end result in Vietnam. But the negotiations between the...
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End of the Arab Spring?
by Gwynne Dyer If the people in charge of the various opposition parties in Egypt had any strategic vision, they would not have launched the mass protests that caused the army to oust President...
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A Frog in the Pot
by Gwynne Dyer If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, so they say, it will hop right out again. Frogs aren't stupid.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Motor City
by Gwynne Dyer As it happens, I was in Detroit this month. I went to see the art and the architecture, domains in which Detroit is still one of the richest cities in the United States.…[ Read more ][...
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Tourism's future: Big Data
by Gwynne Dyer"Recording artist" used to be a term reserved for musicians contracted to record companies. This was before the music industry was eviscerated by Apple, and others, and made plastic...
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The World's Most Important Hamburger
by Gwynne Dyer The most important hamburger in the history of the world was cooked (but only half-eaten) in London on Monday. It was grown in a lab, not cut from a cow, and it tasted — well, not quite...
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All Change on the Internet
by Gwynne Dyer Edward Snowden is safe from American "justice" for the moment, and he will certainly go down as the most effective whistle-blower in history. His revelations are going to cause a...
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