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Achtung! Achtung! The Drones are coming!
Vegas Tenold, 18 February 2018 courtesy of http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-untold-casualties-of-the-drone-war-20160218?page=2 where the title is “The Untold Casualties of the Drone War” Early one evening in November, Brandon Bryant, a former Air Force officer and perhaps the world’s most famous drone program whistleblower, … Continue reading →
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War as Blood and Gore: Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944
In support of my concept of “sacrificial devotion” and in keeping with his consistent criticism of all the generals on all the sides in World War One, Richard Koenigsberg has sent me a video clip of US troops storming and … Continue reading →
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Malala in Thuppahi in October ’13 and on Nobel Prize World Pedestal in October 2014
October 15, 2013 · 2:13 am….…http://thuppahis.com/2013/10/15/malala-yousafzai-speaks-to-the-world/ Malala Yousafzai, aged 16, speaks to the World SEE Interview with Malala Yousafzai ….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjGL6YY6oMs http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/09/world/asia/malala-shooting-anniversary/index.html http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/malala-yousafzai-honored-nobel-peace-prize-nom-article-1.1482919
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Honing in on KP– DBS and Pramod Kumar
KP as depicted in Interpol files I: “KP moves from Colombo to Thamilcelvan’s House in Kili” …. DBS Jeyaraj in transcurrents KP with Prabhakaran, Shankar and Anton Balsainghma during the halcyon days of Thamililam Selvarasah Pathmanathan alias “KP” who is … Continue reading →
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Victor Rajakulendran’s Tirade at the Exposure of Pirapaharan’s Admiration for Hitler
Michael Roberts When one of the early LTTE fighters of the period 1974-to-1984, namely, Chinniah Rajeshkumar whose nom de guerre was Rāgavan revealed to the world the processes leading to Tamil militancy in the 1970s and elaborated upon the early … Continue reading →
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Hitler’s parents’ grave in Austria: headstone removed
Courtesy of the Associated Press, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-30/hitler-parents-grave/53893852/1 The tombstone marking the grave of Adolf Hitler‘s parents,
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Nirupama on Lessons from Geneva
Nirupama Subramanium, in The Hindu, 7 April 2007 As Sri Lanka mulls over last month’s United Nations Human Rights Council resolution, it may look back with nostalgia at its 2009 triumph at Geneva. Then, barely a week after its victory … Continue reading →
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Evaluating the “Churnalism” from Channel 4 and the Moon Panel
Padraig Colman EXTRACTS from a long review by an Irishman who now lives in Sri Lanka and has engaged in high journalese in the West. He is relatively non-partisan and his fuller version is well worth careful perusal. See http://pcolman.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/channel-4-news-and-sri-lankan-war-crimes/ … Continue reading →
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Susan Kurozawa’s Magnificent Seven tourist havens
Susan Kurozawa, in The Weekend Australian Magazine, 15-16 October 2011 In our big, broad contemporary world of travel, taste and opportunity are everything. One person’s campground is another’s castle, one’s lofty art gallery is another’s high adventure. No list of wonders … Continue reading →
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The Vocabulary of “Nation” in English in the Early Modern Period
Michael Roberts, Rohana Wasala’s essay[1] on the Sinhala vocabulary of “nation-ness,” set beside Kumar Sangakkara’s heart-warming emphasis on the multiethnic and multi-religious character of his sentiments[2] within the background provided by the island’s mosaic tapestry, together provide the rationale for … Continue reading →
