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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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The Horrific Terrors of 21/4: Three Pronouncements
ONE = Ellise Ann Allen: “Sri Lanka: One year after the Easter attacks,” Daily News, 23 April 2020, http://www.dailynews.lk/2020/04/23/features/217020/sri-lanka-one-year-after-easter-attacks On the one-year anniversary of a series of Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka that killed nearly 300 people and injured … Continue reading →
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Evaluating Gotabaya’s Early Moves — Rajeewa Jayaweera
Rajeewa Jayaweera, Island, 7 December 2019, where the title is “Gotabaya Rajapaksa Presidency: some positives, negatives and challenges” For all intent and purposes, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s (GR) recently concluded state visit to India, his first as Head of State is … Continue reading →
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An Act of Consciousness Raising: The Concept ‘Pogrom’ and its Extension to Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts ONE: An Explanatory Note in 2019 My recent use of the term “pogrom” to mark the constellation of events in mid-1915 that were (are) commonly referred to as “riots” has been challenged on Facebook by a Sinhalese ideologue … Continue reading →
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Hate. Where An Incisive Cartoon provokes Australian Invective
Michael Leunig, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 November 2019, where the title runs thus: “Aiming to stir the possum, I got engulfed in free-floating hate” It was exactly 50 years ago that I started working as a full-time newspaper … Continue reading →
