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Eric Margolis
Afghanistan: Where’s The Cash?
China is playing a cautious game in Afghanistan. I was invited by Chinese military intelligence to Beijing in 1981 to ask me if Beijing should begin supplying arms to the Afghan Islamic anti-Sovie…
Business
The Palm Oil Industry Association holds AGM
The Executive Committee of the Palm Oil Industry Association of Sri Lanka (POIASL) hosted the Association’s 3rd Annual General Meeting (AGM), on the 31st of August 2021 as a virtual event. The POIASL…
Human Rights
UNICEF announces life-saving support in responding to COVID-19
The UK is providing lifesaving medical equipment for high-risk pregnant mothers and infants identified with COVID-19 to 11 public maternal hospitals across the island. This is in response to a reques…
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Taliban - Reloaded: A New Force under the Old Name
There is no doubt that the second coming of the Taliban has been prepared and backed, again, by the ISI and Pakistan. by Dr. Zlatko Hadžidedić The fall of Kabul to the Taliban, pre-negotiated with t…
Diplomacy
Sri Lanka and Thailand hold high-powered talks to explore mutually beneficial investment corridors
To further enhance and expand investment corridors between Sri Lanka and Thailand, the Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Bangkok, together with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka and …
Social
Sri Lanka: Parakarama Samudraya - Mixed-up priorities
It is customary to have jogging tracks or walkways bordering small lakes with hardly any wave actions on the banks while for the larger inland water areas driveways for vehicles are available or cons…
Victor Cherubim
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s initiative for dialogue with Tamil Diaspora
They would urge the release of long and short term Tamil prisoners held without trial under the PTA. by Victor Cherubim NRTSL (Non Resident Tamils of Sri Lanka) UK have taken up the offer of Presiden…
N.S. Venkataraman
When Would Tibet Get Liberated from China and How?
The Tibetans in exile have formed a government of their own and are constantly raising their voice about the injustice done to Tibet and demanding freedom and independence for Tibet from China’s aggr…
Tisaranee Gunasekara
Sri Lanka: A stake through the ideological heart
The habit of allowing extremists to shape the national agenda and set the national course must end if Sri Lanka’s future is to be better than her past. by Tisaranee Gunasekara “There has been enoug…
feature
Fear Inc – The prison we have lived in since 9/11
The cynical ‘War on Terror’ that started after al-Qaeda’s attacks on the US has claimed almost one million lives and eroded democracy and civil liberties throughout the world. by Christopher McMichae…
Columns
Bangladesh as a Gateway Between ASEAN and SAARC
Re-establishing the Himalayan-South Asian connectivity can occur if political solutions can be found. by Pathik Hasan Bangladesh’s 271km border with Myanmar can play a strategic role as a potential …
Human Rights
Food Politics
Worldwide, more than 2 billion people don’t have enough to eat, while 2 billion are overweight or obese, and nearly a third of the food that gets produced is wasted and ends up discarded According t…
Victor Ivan
Sri Lanka: Agenda for Social Transformation
Mangala was conscious that Sri Lanka was in a huge crisis. He was also aware that neither the Government nor the opposition had a solution for it. He knew that it was essential that the socio-politic…
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Confronting Tyranny Today
Unaccountable and irresponsible power over other human beings proved not only grasping and cruel but also impermanent. No human being lives forever, and the tyrannos (tyrant), or perhaps his son, w…
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