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Australia is Now a Lapdog of USA & UK

Graham Hryce, in RTcom.news, 20 March 2023 where the title runs thus “The AUKUS deal confirms Australia’s complete dependence on the US and the UK” ….  Canberra is once again serving, and paying for, Washington and London’s regional ambitions. Last week, … Continue reading

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Aid Across Flood Waters: Dr Enoka Guneratne on Duty

Current Affairs News Item,on Channel Nine, 5 July 2022, where the title reads “Doctor’s mercy dash across surging floodwaters to help patients” New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has warned that flooding across the state is far from over. More … Continue reading

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Sri Lankan Military in Judicial Gunsights Over May 2009 Incidents

Groundviews, 14 March 2023, where the title reads “Military to Face a Day of Reckoning Over the Disappeared” In a landmark case last month, the Vavuniya High Court ordered the army to produce three LTTE members who had surrendered to … Continue reading

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University Federation of Dons condemn Sri Lankan Government’s Actions

Item in The Island, 1 August 2022, where the title runs thus “Dons Condemn Suppression of Aragalaya” “Tyrannical governments and illegitimate leaders throughout history have led their societies to destruction” The Federation of University Teachers (FUTA) says that the Wickremasinghe-Rajapaksa … Continue reading

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A View of Australia from ORCADIAN somewhere in the Orkney Islands

Orcadian, responding to an Email circulated by Thuppahi conveying the views of JOHN LANDER,  circulated by Senaka Weeraratne John Lander, a former Australian ambassador, gives a most thoughtful analysis on the fictions of the China threat. Western diplomats need to return … Continue reading

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The Damaging Japanese Raid on Trinco …. & Truths Stranger than Fiction

Chandani Kirinde talking to Somasiri Devendra, ex Sri Lanka Navy, in an article that is entitled “Bombers who became monks” The mystery behind the much talked about crash of a Japanese bomber aircraft into an oil tank during the 1942 … Continue reading

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Rosen: An American Rabbi’s Slashing Condemnation of Israeli Warring Atrocities

Rabbi Brant Rosen ONE: Brant Rosen, 24 September 2023 As a rabbi for a Chicago-based synagogue that holds a deep shared commitment to the struggle for Palestinian liberation, I am holding so much intensity and emotion right now. I am … Continue reading

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Community Kitchens: New Charitable Avenue in Crisis Situation in Sri Lanka

News Item in Daily Mirror, 17 June 2022 Sri Lanka is seeing the first signs of some sections of the community thinking of whether the ‘neighbour’ had his or her meal. Just the other day ‘Sarvodaya’ together with ‘Singularity Sri … Continue reading

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A Sturdy Lankan Student Protest Petition, 22 August 2022

A PETITION: Stop Labelling Student Protestors as Terrorists. 22 August 2022 We are a group of feminists writing to call urgent attention to the extra-constitutional attempts of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) to suppress dissent. Lacking a popular mandate, … Continue reading

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Jackson’s Book on Ceylon during World War Two

Ashley Jackson Ceylon at War, 1939-1945 . War and Military Culture in South Asia, 1757-1947  ………………. Hardcover – March 26, 2019 ………… from $49.95 ………… https://www.amazon.com/Ceylon-1939-1945-Military-Culture-1757-1951/dp/1912390655 Ceylon became an imperial bastion following the fall of Singapore. Forces were rushed to … Continue reading

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