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Shock! Terror! 9/11…… From Within CIA Headquarters at Langley
Anbereen Hasan On 9/11 I was at my desk at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA. We had just started our morning meeting when the planes hit the World Trade Towers in NYC. We sat in stunned silence, trying to … Continue reading →
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LTTE Activists at Work in Britain, 2021 …. stirring both Labour and Tories
Maya Anthony, in Ceylon Today, 14 October 2021,where the title reads “The LTTE Born Again; Second-Generation Terrorists” The remnants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are regrouping in the UK. Like Osama bin Laden groomed Hamza bin Laden … Continue reading →
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Being Sri Lankan. Here, There, Everywhere
Capt Elmo Jayawardena, whose title for this tale is “Sri Lankans, for better or for worse” I wrote some articles to the newspapers mainly about Sri Lankan matters and the political climate after Nandikadal. It was just to share my … Continue reading →
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The Palestine-Israel Conflict: Its Political and Legal Underpinnings
Rohini Hensman: “The Political and Legal Underpinnings of the Palestine-Israel Conflict,” in New Politics, 2023 …. ……………………… https://www.academia.edu/110094670/The_Political_and_Legal_Underpinnings_of_the_Palestine_Israel_Conflict?email_work_card=view-paper On 7 October 2023, Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a massive attack on Israeli territory, killing 1405 people including over 300 soldiers … Continue reading →
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Misreading the Asian Political Scenario: Ameer Ali’s Six Misconceptions
Fair Dinkum Ameer Ali’s essay of 6 June 2021 in the Colombo Telegraph [reproduced recently in Thuppahi ……… https://thuppahis.com/2021/10/24/betwixt-india-and-china-little-lanka/) suffers from three fatal flaws. First, there is a failure to identify his political affiliations and to show some understanding of … Continue reading →
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Rupert Murdoch’s Misinformation Empire
An Aussie Dissident Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man on the planet. This Al Jazeera documentary gives us a few clues why, but it is also a wake up call about how journalism and the media have gone way off … Continue reading →
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Territorial Claims: First Settlers & Their Primacy
Michael Roberts, presenting an article published in 2005 as a pamphlet by the ICES, Colombo with this title “The First Settlers and Their Claim to Ownership of Terrain/State. A Comparative Excursion” … an essay originally presented in Abdul Rahman Embong, Rethinking … Continue reading →
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HMS “Ceylon”: In Service from 1942-1985
Group Captain Kumar Kirinde, Retd. SLAF whose preferred title is indicated at the end together with detials from one inspiration, that from Richard Boyle. Introduction: HMS Ceylon was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was … Continue reading →
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TW Roberts Pamphlet, circa 1936: “Problems of Public Life in India & Ceylon”
TW Roberts: PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC LIFE IN INDIA AND CEYLON Contents Page The Ceylon Elections Of 1936 … Continue reading →
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Deep Penetration off Sri Lanka and USA
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, in Colombo Telegarph, August 2022, where the title reads “Ripples In The Indian Ocean: Yuan Wang 5 & Easter Sunday 2019” The alarm bells had been ringing for some time in Sri Lanka. The island nation is strategically … Continue reading →
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