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Turmoil Looming in Sri Lanka … April 1st … Not A Joke
Tisaranee Gunasekara, in Sri Lanka Guardian, 1 April 2022, where the title reads “Sri Lanka: On Protests”
I don’t know who is organising the Sunday’s planned protest. For me, that mystery is a serious problem. This is not a Hollywood movie, a Lankan version of V for Vendetta.
On November 2019, 6.9million Lankans overestimated the intelligence, capacity and compassion of the Rajapaksa brothers. That mistaken assessment was the root cause of the tragedy we are living through today as individuals and as a nation. Should we now compound that error by fatally underestimating their will to power?
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| The aftermath of the protest against the Government yesterday in Colombo suburb |
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Newsline: Paikisothy Saravanamuttu in Discussion with Faraz Shauketaly
Faraz Shauketaly of NewslineSL: with Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu on leadership crisis in SL (05 April 2022) #eng Subscribe us: http://bit.ly/NewsfirstSubscribe Watch more videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/NewsFirs… Like us on Facebook: https://fb.com/NewsfirstSL Follow us via Twitter: https://twitter.com/NewsfirstSL
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Conflict: Sinhalese, Muslims, Tamils and Others
Muralidhar Reddy, in FRONTLINE, 26/20, Sep. 26-Oct. 09, 2009 ….. reviewing CONFRONTATIONS IN SRI LANKA, Colombo, Yapa, 2009
Michael Roberts’ collection of essays on Sri Lankan identity is a breath of fresh air in an atmosphere polluted by callous accounts.
Pirapaharan honouring Miller on Black Friday Day, Continue reading
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Russian Corner: Three Options Now
Ivan Timofeev of the Valdai Club, deploying this title “Russia now has just three options left on Ukraine” … with highlighting imposed by Thuppahi
With Washington rejecting many of Moscow’s security concerns, the prospect of escalation is rising. The US has handed Russia a written response to its proposed security guarantees. While Washington refuses to accept Moscow’s demands for a legally binding pledge that NATO will not expand further towards its borders, it has indicated it is ready to discuss certain issues, including arms control and strategic stability.
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Taiwan in the Centre of US-China Wrestling Match
Brian Victoria, in Countercurrents, 2 February 2022, where the title reads thus “Pearl Harbor Comes to Taiwan“
For the moment at least, the Ukraine crisis has pushed the possibility of a Chinese attack on Taiwan off the front pages. Nevertheless, on a near daily basis we read of what are presented as increasingly ominous incursions of Chinese aircraft into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). Seldom, however, do we see a map showing the area claimed by Taiwan for its ADIZ. On those rare occasions when the map is shown, even a cursory inspection reveals that more than a third of Taiwan’s ADIZ is actually land incontestably a part of the Chinese mainland. Thus, if China were to completely cease flying into Taiwan’s ADIZ it would have to stop flying over its own sovereign territory. How many nations, of whatever political orientation, are prepared to do that?
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Threatening Situation for Russia
Ivan Timofeev, in Valdai Discussion Club, where the title reads “Russia now has just three options left on Ukraine”
With Washington rejecting many of Moscow’s security concerns, the prospect of escalation is rising
Conscripts for the Russian Army wearing protective face masks stand at attention before being sent to the place of their military service, in Novosibirsk, Russia. © Sputnik / Alexandr Kryazhev
The US has handed Russia a written response to its proposed security guarantees. While Washington refuses to accept Moscow’s demands for a legally binding pledge that NATO will not expand further towards its borders, it has indicated it is ready to discuss certain issues, including arms control and strategic stability.
Conflicts in Sri Lanka reviewed in 2009 by Muralidhar Reddy
Muralidhar Reddy, in Frontline, vol. 26/20, Sept 26-Oct 09, 2009 where the title reads “Analytical Anthropology”
Michael Roberts’ collection of essays on Sri Lankan identity is a breath of fresh air in an atmosphere polluted by callous accounts.
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Anarchy via Modern Media: Belgium Erupts ….
HOT NEWS ITEM …………“Clashes erupt in Brussels as tens of thousands protest Covid rules” …………. rance24.com/en/europe/20220123-clashes-erupt-in-brussels-as-tens-of-thousands-protest-covid-rules
