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November 29, 2024 · 5:31 pm

Britain’s SAS Under Threat From HR Legal Beagles

Paul Wood: “The SAS have been betrayed in the name of human rights” … in The Spectator, magazine, 30 November 2024 The SAS are worried. Britain’s most elite military unit have come face to face with the IRA, the Taliban … Continue reading →

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July 28, 2024 · 2:35 pm

India throttle Sri Lanka in Riveting Cricket Match

Shashank Kishore in ESPNcricinfo, 27 July 2024 …. with highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi India 213 for 7 (Suryakumar 58, Pant 49, Jaiswal 40, Pathirana 4-40) beat Sri Lanka 170 (Nissanka 79, Mendis 45, Parag 3-5, Arshdeep 2-24, Axar 2-38) by 43 … Continue reading →

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October 18, 2023 · 5:43 pm

Vale Felix Perumal: A Leader of Cricketing Men

Merril Gunaratne Standing from left: F.A. Fernando, A.T. Fonseka, V. Narendra, M. Guneratne, F. Burke, M. Siriwardene D. Rajaratnam …  Seated from left: H.C. Perera, N. Weerasinghe, F. Perumal, B.A. Jayasinghe (President GSCA) Minister of Health E.L. Senanayake, E. L. … Continue reading →

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April 10, 2024 · 8:27 pm

Introducing Tambiah’s 1992 Book: “Buddhism Betrayed?”

Item in Tamil Nation ……………………………………… https://tamilnation.org/books/eelam/buddhismbetrayed Given Buddhism’s presumed non-violent philosophy, how can committed Buddhist monks and laypersons in Sri Lanka today actively take part in the fierce political violence of the Sinhalese against the Tamils? Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah’s Buddhism Betrayed? … Continue reading →

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January 17, 2024 · 7:44 pm

Devious Propaganda Guided by Geopolitical Positioning

An Honest Broker **Devious  With regard to the Maldives piece, this article is propaganda: …………………..  https://thegeopolitics.com/navigating-the-geopolitical-waters-india-maldives-relations-in-a-shifting-global-landscape/  You cannot expect it to remain unchallenged. The article doesn’t contain a single piece of information that hasn’t been slanted in India’s favour, at … Continue reading →

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July 31, 2024 · 12:32 pm

Bokku and Hara-Kiri sink Sri Lanka in Third ODI Match at Pallekele

Michael Roberts from the Outside without seeing Live Coverage Studying the CricInfo ball-by-ball reportage and the eventual surveys by  BBB and Rex Clementine, it seems to me that the principal reasons why Sri Lanka lost were because of (A) Suryakumar … Continue reading →

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September 12, 2024 · 8:01 pm

The Roberts Oral History Project, 1964-1969: Its Conception, Inception & Outcomes

Michael Roberts In re-establishing communication with two old Mertonians of the early 1960s generation at my College in Oxford, viz, Tony Roberton and Keith Shuttleworth, I have been induced to reflect upon my unusual circumstances as a postgraduate at Merton … Continue reading →

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March 27, 2024 · 7:44 pm

Why the West is wrong to blame ISIS for the Crocus Terrorist Attack

An Observer in a Black Sea town  ” The American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) assert Russia has no evidence to claim Ukraine was involved in the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall on 22 March 2024.” Actually, the Russians do … Continue reading →

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April 10, 2022 · 8:35 pm

USA’s Dollar Weaponry did not Deter Russia from Attacking Ukraine

This article in the ATLANTIC COUNCIL web site on 31 January 2022 pinpointed one relam of power wielded by USA and indicated that it would induce Putin and Russia NOT to attack Ukraine. The fallacy of this prediction does not … Continue reading →

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August 10, 2022 · 9:29 pm

The Geopolitics of the Pacific Ocean,1842-2022

Michael Roberts  Writing as a non-specialist after listening to the Chinese Ambassador’s speech at the Australian Press Club today,[1] I venture on what may seem to be outrageous geo-political hypotheticals by looking at Tasmania’s relationship with the continent of Australia. … Continue reading →

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