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Vicious Victimization of Dr Danielle by the Western Cabal and THE AGE

Fair Dinkum For telling the truth about Wuhan as she knew it, this Australian virologist Dr Danielle Anderson has been  attacked, smeared and had her life threatened because her statement did not align with American Australian narratives about the origins … Continue reading

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A Tale of Resistance: The Story of the Arrival of the Portuguese

Michael Roberts An ABSTRACT of an article that appeared in print in Ethnos, 1989, vol 54: 1 & 2,  pp. 69-82…. available online for payment to Taylor & Francis. This essay decodes a sixteenth century folktale which records the Sinhalese … Continue reading

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Lakshman’s Hambantota Diarrhoeas

Lakshman Gunasekara … with highlights being the intrusion of The Editor, Thuppahi I recall reading both these articles,[1] or at least parts of these articles just a few weeks ago sent by you. 1) China:- I am an admirer of China (just … Continue reading

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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