Gwynne Dyer
Gwynne Dyer is a United Kingdom-based independent journalist who writes a column for The Hill Times.
Gwynne Dyer is a United Kingdom-based independent journalist who writes a column for The Hill Times.
The next Israeli government will probably be just as expansionist, and just as willing to go to war again, as the present one is.
As the trajectory of his Hindu nationalist party stalled, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the biggest gerrymandering attempt in world history. Now young protesters are in the streets.
Many people fear the U.S. is heading for a constitutional rupture at some point in the next couple of years, and relatively few think it will come so soon over an election that doesn’t directly challenge the role of President Donald Trump. They may be wrong.
Israel has drifted so far right over the last three decades that none of the plausible rival candidates in this month’s Israel election is interested in seeking peace with the Palestinians, and the PLO is in corrupt and useless shambles.
When Ukraine’s president boasted his country had transferred two captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea, Pyongyang went ballistic, but so did Seoul. He was supposed to keep that quiet and now South Korea’s president is facing accusations of covering up the transfer to appease Pyongyang.
Imaginary Iranian nuclear weapons provided the pretext for the Israeli-U.S. assault on Iran in the Twelve-Day War of June 2025. They also served as an excuse for this year’s much larger U.S.-Israeli surprise attack.
In Brazil, inflation is low, unemployment is low, and the economy is growing faster than in most other G20 countries. So, the coming October contest will probably come down to ‘sovereignty.’
Within a year of receiving the Nobel Prize in 2019, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was at war with Tigrayan militia. That war ended in 2022 with the militia defeated and some 600,000 Tigrayans dead, but the country is already sliding back into another war.
The prime minister has the right personal qualities and experiences, but more importantly he governs the middle power most vulnerable to subjugation in the short run. Most Canadians realize this country’s peril may be existential.
The Americans bragged they’ve launched ‘space-control weapons.’ While high ground has always been an advantage in land warfare, that is not necessarily the same for space, which lacks key targets.
After an Anthropic employee quit with a warning that artificial intelligence could lead to human extinction, the company is committing to safety measures, while other AI leaders say it’s the right move. In this secretive and highly competitive world, this is unprecedented.
With Israel’s election on the horizon, a dozen nations are sanctioning products from Israeli settlements in West Bank, and its prime minister is under the microscope after a new book claims he had clear warning of the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
We are trapped on the up escalator, and we need to stop the warming now.
Ahead of key elections in each country, the Israel prime minister’s coalition risks losing its majority in the Knesset, and the American president stands to lose control of the House of Representatives, which would open the door to impeachment proceedings.
Perhaps we are now encountering the Great Filter, the notion that intelligent civilizations may emerge on many planets in a universe, but that most of them are too weighed down by the baggage of their past to adapt to their new circumstances.
It’s really about sovereignty, not trade, and Canada stands a fair chance of winning.