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Reading Stephen Champion’s Photo Event in 2008 …. Today 2020
Michael Roberts When I came across some ‘new’ material[1] of great import relating to KP Pathmanathan’s valiant efforts to extricate the LTTE leadership from their deteriorating military situation in early 2009 and to whisk them away to Eritrea with the … Continue reading →
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US Scheming Looms over India and Lanka
Shenali Waduge, in Lankaweb, 9 February 2020, where the title is “Balkanizing India: National Security dimensions for India & Sri Lanka” Indo-Sri Lanka relations have never been what either country would have liked it to be. What both countries should … Continue reading →
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USA’s Delta Force and the Baghdadi Killing
Jon Lockett, in SUN, 28 October 2019, with this title THE special forces unit which hunted down ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is so secretive even the Pentagon doesn’t admit it exists. Delta Force — set up by a US … Continue reading →
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WHO trumps and blunts Trump
ONE: Fair Dinkum Trump has no evidence whatsoever to launch this bizarre attack the WHO. So, why did he do it? As a superpower, the US have always been obsessed with having an enemy or an adversary for domestic political reasons, … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Foreign Policy Triangle
Austin Fernando, in The Wire, August 2020, where the title reads “Sri Lanka, India and China: Here’s What Keeps Neighbours Friendly – and What Doesn’t” The other day on the show Gravitas, it was claimed that China is pushing Sri Lanka … Continue reading →
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A Verbal Joust on the Roots of the Pandemic: Fair Dinkum pummels Wei
Fair Dinkum I was delighted that my commentary titled “WHO trumps and blunts Trump” (9 April) provoked a hostile response from David Wei. I enjoyed reading it. However, his criticisms of me and his counterclaims cannot go by unchallenged and … Continue reading →
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Pirapāharan the Megalomaniac: Stephen Champion’s Reading from 2007
A Composite Collection Michael Roberts: An Introductory Note, 30 April 2020 In early April this year 2020 I came across new data – or rather, information which had bypassed me earlier – garnered by DBS Jeyaraj via his exchanges with … 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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The Fundamental Oppositions: Lakshman Gunasekara challenges Jayaweera & Roberts
Email Memo from Lakshman F. B. Gunasekara, 5 November 2019 directed at Mike, …. You quote with approval one ‘Rajeewa’ as saying: “The final result proved without ambiguity, the disconnect between the small group of elitist city dwellers and the rural … Continue reading →
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Embracing the LTTE Strategy in 2008/09: Norway, USA, UK, France and the Human Rights Conglomerate as Complicit Tiger Allies
Michael Roberts In his wide-ranging autobiographical tale of his numerous engagements in Sri Lanka and for Sri Lanka Michael Lord Naseby has condemned the LTTE for its deployment of so many Tamil civilians as a “human shield” and “bargaining counter” … Continue reading →
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