SENT by Joe Paiva of Adelaide, 12 April 2026 — BILL CLINTON’s Down to Earth Analysis
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Yemen’s Leverage in the Red Sea
Desert Wanderer
By threatening to block the Bab al-Mandab Strait, Yemeni forces have successfully pressured Gulf nations into staying out of the wider war against Iran. This tactical leverage likely explains why these nations did not respond militarily to recent Iranian attacks on U.S. regional bases. Sana’a has also offered a conditional truce to Saudi Arabia, promising not to target its ports if the Kingdom stays out of any U.S.-Israeli military alliance.
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The Realist’s Verdict: How U.S. Hubris in West Asia Cemented a Multipolar World
Cameleer
Take in what John Mearsheimer has to say NOW about the Middle-Eastern Warfronts and Political situations:
Probably the best analysis you can find today regarding what just happened in West Asia is this one by John Mearsheimer. It offers a perspective that Western media never reports.
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Huge Groundwater Source at Pitabeddara in Lanka Discovered
ITEM in THe ISLAND, March 2026, entitled “Lanka discovers largest groundwater source”
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) on Friday said the largest groundwater source discovered in Sri Lanka so far had been identified during tube-well drilling near the Pitabeddara Police Station.
According to the NWSDB, the tube well was drilled following geological studies of rock layers and the identification of underground water through fractures in rock strata using specialised technical instruments.
The Board said steps would be taken to distribute water from the newly discovered source to residents facing shortages in Pitabeddara, Morawaka and surrounding areas.
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Introducing “We are Verité Research”
We are Verité Research …. https://www.veriteresearch.org/about-us/
Verité Research is an independent think-and-do tank based in Sri Lanka, dedicated to providing strategic analysis to drive transformative change. Through rigorous research, advocacy, and education, we tackle complex challenges with practical, actionable insights.
Our interdisciplinary approach spans various areas of economic research—including socio-economics, international economics, and macroeconomics—alongside our Verité Sectoral Engagement Team (VSET), which focuses on sector-specific research and engagement with public institutions. Our specialized teams in legal research, governance and anti-corruption, media and politics, and parliamentary monitoring work together to provide a holistic, integrated approach.
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Channa Gunasekera Featured by CRICKETIQUE in 2012
“Through the Covers” by Channa Gunasekara
Notice in the Nation: Former Sri Lanka captain and SSC stalwart Arjuna Ranatunga is presented with a copy of the book ‘Through the Covers’ written by the late Channa Gunasekara by his grand daughter Nihara at the book launch held at the SSC pavilion on Friday. Gunasekara’s son Chanaka is also in the picture. Gunasekara was a former Sri Lanka cricketer who represented SSC in the fifties – (Pic by Rukshan Abeywansha).
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Gammanpila’s Pus Vedilla on the EASTER SUNDAY Attacks in 2019
Verite Research, deploying this title “Gammanpila’s book launch on Easter Attacks: A story that did not sell”
Over the past week, Sinhala media coverage of former MP Udaya Gammanpila’s book launch, “පාස්කු ප්රහාරයේ මහ මොළකරු සොයා යෑම” (“Searching for the Mastermind of the Easter Sunday Attacks”), was strikingly limited. Print media engagement was particularly minimal, while social media narratives—monitored via specialised digital tracking tools—were largely critical and/or sarcastic.[1] Television coverage, while more visible than print, remained limited.
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Crazy Brinkmanship ‘Trumpian’ …. !!@!!
Insights, analysis and must reads from CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and the Global Public Square team, compiled by Global Briefing editor Chris Good ….. under the title “Countdown to War Crimes?”
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” President Donald Trump posted to social media this morning. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” This followed Trump’s Easter Sunday message: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH!”
Not for the first time, Trump has given Iran a 48-hour deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face attacks on electricity-generating power plants and bridges. That deadline expires at 8 p.m. ET tonight.
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Historical Records: Some Thoughts in April 2026
Michael Roberts
Over the last 6-9 months Roshan Samarawickrema has been cataloguing my books in a long-term project. As it happens, a chance finding in my computer files led me to a Note [undated] to Nishan de Mel, a good friend who is the Director of VERITE RESEARCH in Colombo, which is entitled “RARE MATERIAL –NEW” …..
DEAR NISHAN et al
Given the aging process and the right-royal mess my study arena is in, I fear that there is a corpus of rare items that may disappear when I am cremated at some point in the near future. Some of the rare books will be available in university libraries and in the stock maintained by collectors.
PK Balachandran …. & …. Genl Shavendra Silva
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A = my stock also contains some slim pamphlets and leaflets which are quite rare and are just the ‘scale’ of items that disappear beyond any horizon.
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Impasse: Uneasy Peace in the IRAN Arena
Desert Wanderer, with highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
I have just read that Trump has postponed his plan to destroy the entire Persian civilization for two weeks. He is using this “threat of annihilation” as leverage to force Iran into a humiliating defeat, after declaring “total victory over Iran” for the 27th time.
Of course, the reality is different. Trump hasn’t won the war; it is still ongoing. He is desperate for a ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, but Iran views the war differently.
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