Bush’s Last Hurrah: Attack Pakistan
16 September 2008 Bush’s Last Hurrah: Attack Pakistan By Gwynne Dyer The good news is that US President George W. Bush is not going to invade Iran before he leaves office. The bad news is that he is...
View ArticleThe New Consensus in Pakistan
17 March 2009 The New Consensus in Pakistan By Gwynne Dyer The dancing in the streets in Pakistan after the latest political crisis ended may have been overdone, but the relief was genuine. Americans...
View ArticleLieberman the Truth-Teller
23 April 2009 Lieberman the Truth-Teller By Gwynne Dyer The great virtue of a maverick like Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman is that there is none of the usual pussy-footing around. He says...
View ArticlePakistan: A Question of Water
20 August 2010 Pakistan: A Question of Water By Gwynne Dyer This may not be the most tactful time to bring it up, with much of Pakistan underwater and many millions homeless, but Pakistan’s real...
View ArticlePakistan: A Deathly Silence
4 March 2011 Pakistan: A Deathly Silence By Gwynne Dyer At least with a dictatorship, you know where you are – and if you know where you are, you may be able to find your way out. In Pakistan, it is...
View ArticleNigeria and Boko Haram
28 August 2011 Nigeria and Boko Haram by Gwynne Dyer On Sunday Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, visited the scene of last week’s bombing at the United Nations office in Abuja, the capital, and...
View ArticleThe Risk of Islamist Coups
19 January 2012 The Risk of Islamist Coups By Gwynne Dyer The eastern half of what used to be Pakistan narrowly escaped a military coup last month. Brigadier Masud Razzak, the spokesman of the...
View ArticleA Signal Honour
4 May 2012 A Signal Honour By Gwynne Dyer I wanted you to be the first to know. It has just been revealed by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Military Academy in the United States that I am...
View ArticleBlasphemy in Pakistan
10 September 2012 Blasphemy in Pakistan By Gwynne Dyer It was a welcome change from the usual dreary story: a Christian or a Hindu Pakistani accused of blasphemy on flimsy grounds, tried, and sentenced...
View Article“Double Tap”
26 September 2012 “Double Tap” By Gwynne Dyer “Double Tap” is what mobsters do when they put somebody down. One bullet in the heart, one in the head. That way they stay down. It’s practically standard...
View ArticlePakistan
15 May 2013 Pakistan’s New Government: An Older and Wiser Nawaz Sharif? By Gwynne Dyer The first time Nawaz Sharif became prime minister of Pakistan was almost a quarter-century ago. His second term...
View ArticleBangladesh: The Trials
17 July 2013 Bangladesh: The Trials By Gwynne Dyer Genocide is always a difficult crime for courts to deal with, and all the more so when it happened 42 years ago. But Bangladesh is really making a...
View ArticleIsrael: Nuclear Hypocrisy
12 February 2014 Israel: Nuclear Hypocrisy When Mordechai Vanunu, a humble Israeli technician who worked for years at Israel’s secret nuclear site at Dimona, spilled the beans about Israel’s nuclear...
View ArticleThe Return of the Dictators
6 April 2014 The Return of the Dictators “I prefer death to surrender,” said Pakistan’s former military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, on 1 April to the special court that is trying him on five counts of...
View Article“Global” Terrorism
“We will not be cowed by these sick terrorists,” said British Prime Minister David Cameron after ISIS produced a grisly video of the mass beheading of Syrian captives by foreign jihadis who allegedly...
View ArticleThe End of the BRICs
“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable,” said John Kenneth Galbraith, the wisest American economist of his generation. (“A paltry honour,” he would have...
View ArticleIndia: Changing Identities
When India got its independence from Britain 70 years ago this week, it was founded as a secular democracy – secular because it acknowledged the status and rights of Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and...
View ArticlePakistan: Dammed If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
“India is shrinking the flow of water into Pakistan,” said Pakistan’s Chief Justice Saqib Nisar on Saturday, renewing a ban on showing Indian TV shows and Bollywood films on Pakistani television....
View ArticleIndia-Pakistan: Maybe War, But Not a Water War
After the terrorist attack on Indian troops in Kashmir two weeks ago that killed 40 Indian soldiers, but before Tuesday’s retaliatory air strikes across the border into Pakistan by the Indian Air...
View ArticleXinjiang – The Silence of the Muslims
Muslim governments were not silent when Burma murdered thousands of Rohingya, its Muslim minority, and expelled 700,000 of them across the border into Bangladesh. They were unanimous in their anger...
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