Syria: Who is to blame?

March 13, 2025 · 0 Comments

By Gwynne Dyer “They kidnapped; they killed; they humiliated; they kicked people out of jobs,” explained an Alawite writer living in coastal Syria. “One way ...

The Golden Age of the snowmobile

By Keith Schell Growing up in the 1970s, it seemed as though everybody and his brother manufactured snowmobiles. Considered the golden age of the snowmobile, ...

Time to force the issue

By Constance Scrafield As early as the beginning of the 1900s there were suggestions that compulsory voting in Australia be made law. Not quite there ...

Give Buffy a break

By Brian Lockhart There’s an old public service commercial from 1970 that a lot of people remember – because it was really well done. It ...

Burma on the brink

By Gwynne Dyer If the Burmese drive General Min Aung Hlaing and his brutal military regime from power, as they seem about to do, the ...

My father’s ‘Swedish Pimple’

By Keith Schell Since time immemorial, fishermen worldwide have embarked on a personal quest to discover the ‘Holy Grail’ of fishing lures. The one lure ...

Different kinds of thieves

By Gwynne Dyer What’s the difference between smash-and-grab raids and protection rackets? Not all that much from the legal point of view, but protection rackets ...