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The Elephant in the Room: Geopolitics and the ‘Great Reset’ in Sri Lanka
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, in Countercurrents “But to watch cricket, there has to be a country left for us to watch it in, no?” A fan at the Galle Test Match that ended with an innings victory for Sri Lanka. July 11, … Continue reading →
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Western Deception re Sri Lanka: Many Agencies
Orcadian’s NOTES in response to Benjamin Norton’s Revelatory Essay on the Sources of Debt faced by Sri Lanka A = “NORTON’S article needs to be tattooed on the brains of every mindless Western journalist, every Western academic, everyone at the … Continue reading →
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Colossal Deception: Gross Lies about Sources of Sri Lanka’s Debt Burden foisted on the World by Western Agencies
Benjamin Norton, in Multipolarista, July 12 July 2022 where the title reads thus “Real debt trap: Sri Lanka owes vast majority to West, not China” … with highlighting emphasis in colours imposde by the Editor, Thuppahi Sri Lanka owes 81% … Continue reading →
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The Lineage “Hoolsema” – Nazi Europe to Sydney
Michael Roberts My story here begins in Colombo in mid-2020 where I stubbed by big toe badly as I walked into the National Archives. The injury turned septic; and I was treated … I would say rescued …. by a … Continue reading →
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Kudurai Madiri Pona … Ride It Like A Horse: That is the first Principle of Flying
Captain Clmo Jayawardena The big jumbo has come from the French land and as the French themselves say it is ‘annus mirabillis’ the miracle year, finally and finally the wait is over. The world will now see the Big-Bus that … Continue reading →
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The Loch Ness Monster Emerges Again … To be Undermined
Matthew Weaver, in The Guardian, 6 & 9 September 2019 with this title “Loch Ness monster could be a giant eel, say scientists” The Loch Ness monster could be a giant eel, according to a fishy new theory that will … Continue reading →
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A Searing Wide-Ranging Critique from Qadri Ismail after 21/4 in 2019 ……. Now a Requiem
Qadri Ismail, in Groundviews, 5 May 2019 after the 21/4 Atrocities Photo by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake for The Washington Post We hadn’t seen him in years, ever since he left to work abroad. So, on the day of his return, … Continue reading →
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A Tale of Resistance: The Story of the Arrival of the Portuguese in Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts, reproducing here an article that appeared initially in 1989 with the same title in Ethnos, 55: 1-2:69-82. … and also in Swedish in Lanka. Tidskrift om Lankesisk Kultur (Uppsala), No. 2, March 1989. I regret that the presentation here … Continue reading →
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Demonising the Pope: Pompeo and Murdoch Press in Devilish Politics
Tony Donaldson A propaganda piece published in The Australian on 2 October 2020. depicted the Pope as an evil monster with horns, as if the CCP is controlling him . 1) China is evil 2) The Vatican have an agreement with China 3) Therefore, the Vatican … Continue reading →
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A Blaring of the 1956 Sinhala Chauvinist Trumpet ….. AGAIN!
“Way Forward” in Lanka Future and #FAKENEWS, 22 February 2018 where the title reads “The racist anti-Sinhala journalists — past and present” Officially, Sri Lanka got its Independence in 1948. However, it was not until 1956 that the masses were … Continue reading →
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