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A Roaring Fire ravages the Southern Ocean Lodge and a Good Part of Kangaroo Island
Roy Ecclestone, in SAWeekend, 17 January 2020, ….”Trapped in a bunker and hoping for a miracle: The destruction of Southern Ocean Lodge” …….. https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/lifestyle/sa-weekend/trapped-in-a-bunker-and-hoping-for-a-miracle-the-destruction-of-southern-ocean-lodge/news-story/290c766f353ce1e89d551c3d354c2b46 It was after the firestorm swept over Southern Ocean Lodge for the fourth time that one … Continue reading →
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MCC Compact under Question
Press Release Issued by the Public Opinion Committee on March 3rd 2020 under the Heading “Is the Government all set to sign the MCCC?” ….. http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/67895 A high-profile member of the Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact (MCCC) review committee has revealed … Continue reading →
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A Chilling and Terrifying Word-Picture of USA Today
David Kilcullen, in The Inquirer, 30 May 2020 and the Australian, 4 June 2020, with this title “Home of the hateful, fearful, heavily armed” ….. Coronavirus is threatening to ignite a tinderbox of grievances in the US. The growing parallels … Continue reading →
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Sinhalaness in Pre-British Ceylon: Issues and Pathways
A Review Essay by Alan Strathern** dissecting a Book by Michael Roberts published in 2004 This item was located by Thuppahi in the web-site Colombo Telegraph on 26 December 2012 (see https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/the-royal-we-sinhala-identity-in-the-dynastic-state/). However, it appeared initially in 2005 in the … Continue reading →
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Introducing ECSAT and the World of Disabled People around Galle
Michael Roberts In late 2018 I met Roshan Samarawickrema at Flinders University via my daughter Maya who is a senior staff officer there. Roshan had arrived to further studies in Disability Teaching. Via the vagaries of the covid endemic both … Continue reading →
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Medical Pontifications from Australia that miss the Mark
The universe today has been bombarded by medical expertise from every which way pontificating on “solutions” to a covid-pandemic of an extremely complex and varied character. Chandini Liyanagama, a senior Sri Lankan Australian medic, has essayed criticisms of the processes … Continue reading →
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The Loch Ness Monster Emerges Again … To be Undermined
Matthew Weaver, in The Guardian, 6 & 9 September 2019 with this title “Loch Ness monster could be a giant eel, say scientists” The Loch Ness monster could be a giant eel, according to a fishy new theory that will … Continue reading →
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Robert Pape’s Blunders in Tigerland: Pape’s Muddles on ‘Suicide Bombers’ in Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts, reprinting here an article which appeared initially in November 2007 as Working Paper No. 32 November 2007 in the Heidelberg Papers on South Asian Politics … ISSN: 1617-5069 …. edited by Subrata Mitra. Insofar as this essay is … Continue reading →
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The Malaysian Power Struggle: Yet Another Chapter
News Item in Sarawak Report, 24 February 2020, with this title “Malaysia’s Meltdown Moment – The INSIDE STORY” Malaysians have just spent a weekend with heart in mouths thanks to a bunch of desperados who were not prepared to take … Continue reading →
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Bonapartist Autocracy in Sri Lanka from 1977 Onwards
Uditha Devapriya who notes that the article that followw here was published in two parts by “The Island” in its “Midweek Review” of December 2 and December 9, 2020. It has since been edited to incorporate information which at the … Continue reading →
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