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Frog in the Pot 15 Jul 2013 | 11:00 pm
15 Jul 13 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. Well, okay, but they’re not THAT stupid. How...
Spies and Whistle-Blowers 8 Jul 2013 | 10:57 pm
8 July 2013 Spies and Whistle-Blowers By Gwynne Dyer Edward Snowden, a former contractor to the US Central Intelligence Agency, has been trapped in the transit lounge of Sheremetyevo airport in Mos...
End of the Arab Spring 7 Jul 2013 | 10:55 pm
7 July 2013 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 c...
Egypt and Turkey 3 Jul 2013 | 10:53 pm
3 July 2013 Egypt and Turkey: Democracy in Trouble By Gwynne Dyer Egypt and Turkey have the same basic political problem. Democracy can work despite huge ideological differences, but only if everyb...
Afghanistan Decent Interval 1 Jul 2013 | 10:51 pm
1 July 2013 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 ...
The Nicaraguan Canal 26 Jun 2013 | 10:48 pm
26 June 2013 The Nicaraguan Canal By Gwynne Dyer On 11 June, the Nicaraguan parliament voted in favour of building a $40 billion canal across the country connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans....
World Population: The African Exception 24 Jun 2013 | 10:45 pm
24 June 2013 World Population: The African Exception By Gwynne Dyer The news on the population front sounds bad: birth rates are not dropping as fast as expected, and we are likely to end up with a...
Poison Gas and Red Lines 19 Jun 2013 | 10:42 pm
19 June 2013 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. We must invade.) Fool me twice, shame on me. (Sadd...
Iran: The New Broom? 16 Jun 2013 | 12:18 pm
16 June 2013 Iran: The New Broom? By Gwynne Dyer You certainly can’t say that Iranian elections are boring. In 2005, Iranians surprised everybody by electing the darkest of dark horses, Mahmoud Ahmadi...
Mandela’s Legacy 13 Jun 2013 | 12:15 pm
13 June 2013 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. But this is his fourth hospitalisation in six months,...
