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September 30, 2024 · 9:06 pm

Toffsy Turvy in the UK: A Labour Party Government?

Edward Upali in Canada After 14 years of chaotic rule, the governing Conservative Party of the UK, lost the General Election to the Labour Party on July 4, this year.  However the Labour Party, battered by successive election losses and … Continue reading →

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November 29, 2024 · 5:31 pm

Britain’s SAS Under Threat From HR Legal Beagles

Paul Wood: “The SAS have been betrayed in the name of human rights” … in The Spectator, magazine, 30 November 2024 The SAS are worried. Britain’s most elite military unit have come face to face with the IRA, the Taliban … Continue reading →

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January 9, 2026 · 5:56 pm

Dissident Devananda’s Work During the Eelam Wars

Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, 7 January 2026 where the title reads thus “EPDP’s Devananda and missing weapon supplied by Army”  March 15, 2009: Social Services and Social Welfare Minister and Chairman of Special Task Committee, Northern Province, Douglas Devananda … Continue reading →

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July 31, 2024 · 4:27 pm

 The National Endowment for Democracy exposed as a CIA Branch

C. K. Watt  The National Endowment for Democracy has been exposed today in a cache of silly letters and emails released today.  If you want to better understand what a nefarious illegal corrupt outfit the NED is and the weird … Continue reading →

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February 23, 2025 · 7:26 pm

Sachs on USA’s Hegemonic Imperialism

An Email NOTE from Ajit Varuna-Candappa sent to his Royal College classmates, mid-February 2024 https://youtu.be/ZUbBU0OqCgE?si=H084GxLxuFKm6EQp Dear Tony & all my classmates at Royal of the 57 Group. We have known each other for 59 years since we entered Royal at … Continue reading →

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September 26, 2025 · 2:15 pm

The Western Pitch Exposed by Sachs & Mearsheimer

Matt Gable  ….. WATCH    https://www.youtube.com/live/VkS9zukrCFA?si=Un2HLPdhlqRVMLF5 Jeffrey Sachs takes a similar view to mine about the Jolani and General Petraeus meeting at the UN a few days ago. Fast track in this interview to 24’50 and the phrase beginning,  “Switching … Continue reading →

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September 7, 2025 · 10:05 pm

Ramifications From Past Killings in Sri Lanka … Burgeoning Issues

Meera Srinivasan, in The Hindu 1 September 2025, where the title runs thus: “Decades Later A Difficult Story Finds Its Way to the Sinhala South” … with highlights  being  the work of The Editor, Thuppahi Forensic experts has been unearthing human … Continue reading →

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November 26, 2025 · 11:41 am

Nissanka Mauls Zimbabwe …..

Madushka Balasuriya in  ESPNcricinfo, November  2025 where the  title reads   “Nissanka’s 98* keeps Sri Lanka’s hopes of making tri-series final alive” …. Sri Lanka 148 for 1 (Nissanka 98*, Kusal 25*, Evans 1-36) beat Zimbabwe 146 for 5 (Burl 37*, Hasaranga 2-23, Theekshana … Continue reading →

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December 1, 2024 · 8:51 pm

Growing Up Within Galle Fort in the 1950s

BC aka Bunchy Rahuman: “Essay One – Galle Fort: Introductory Kick Off to start the ball rolling” I was born one morn when the sun didn’t shine: at one hour past midnight, how can the sun shine? yakku guss nagina … Continue reading →

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September 15, 2025 · 2:53 am

The Vocabulary Girding & Gilding Israel’s Programme of Genocide in Palestine

Gamini Seneviratne, in The Island, 12 September 2025, where the title is “Human Animals” The words in the heading do not refer to those who are slaughtering the human beings resident in Gaza and the West Bank. They are the ones … Continue reading →

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