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The Yellow Peril! Coronavirus sparks an Aged Refrain

 Palitha Kohona, in Indepthnews, March 2020, with this title “CORVID 19 – The Insatiable Urge to Bash China Surfaces Again!   The writer is former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, and former Foreign Secretary. … Continue reading

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Monkeys in Their Sri Lankan Kingdom

‘Monkey Kingdom’ is coming to SBS on Saturday 1 June at 7:35pm. (SBS) VIDEO AUDIO It’s a shameless celebration of loving monkeys! By Dan Barrett  31 MAY 2019 – 10:29 AM  UPDATED YESTERDAY 10:30 AM ‘Monkey Kingdom’ is the best … Continue reading

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Gotabaya in Legal Gunsights: One, Two, Three …

ONE = Sanjana Hattotuwa: “The Candidate,” in Island, April 2019, “The lie is revealed. There was no summons served. The photo depicts a lookalike of Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The FBI is engaged in an effort to ascertain who produced this false … Continue reading

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Confronting Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Q & A in 2018 – Swedish Journalist Mikaelsson

Johan Mikaelsson, in Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka, 5 November 2018, where the title is “Impunity Island: Sri Lanka’s “predator emeritus” on rebound,” Many local journalists feel discomfort when they hear the name Gotabaya Rajapaksa[1]. He is seen as … Continue reading

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Our Wonderful World: The Mammals of Ceylon Brought to Life

Burton K Lim in © 2015 American Society of Mammalogists, http://www.mammalogy.org …… …. reviewing  A. Yapa, A. and G. Ratnavira  2013. The Mammals of Sri Lanka. Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka, Department of Zoology, University of Colombo, Colombo 3, … Continue reading

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When Nature Swallows Settlement: Ross Island in the Indian Ocean

Neelima Vallangi, 18 March 2018, “http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180308-a-ghost-island-in-the-middle-of-the-indian-ocean … where the original title is “A Ghost Island in the Middle of the Indian Ocean” Situated in the Bay of Bengal, India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands are an isolated group of 572 tropical islands, … Continue reading

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Predator-Proof Fence to create Huge Wild Life Sanctuary

Paige Taylor  in The Australian, 13 June 2017,   where the title is “Predator-proof ploy foils feral-fed catastrophe” Work has begun northwest of Alice Springs on the world’s largest predator-proof animal enclosure. It has come to this for our endangered species. The … Continue reading

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The Many Strands of Extremism TODAY: Salafi, Racial, Chauvinist and HR

Michael Roberts, reproducing an essay presented in Colombo Telegraph in 2015 with the title “Secular Fundamentalism in One-Eyed Overkill” …. because of indications that personnel pushing rights-programmes take adamantine positions that blind them to their own distortions and rigidity of … Continue reading

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The Political Struggle in Sri Lanka: Three Pugilists … Hattotuwa … Chandraprema … Philips

ONE. Sanjana Hattotuwa:  “Musical Chairs,” Island, 12 January 2019 The appointment of a new Army Chief of Staff. A fresh denial around the use of chemical weapons. The denunciation of a civil society protest against mainstream media supportive of the … Continue reading

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Extermination War in Outback Australia

Julie Power, in Sydney Morning Herald, 19 February 2017, where the title runs “War on feral cats: Australia aims to cull 2 million” The federal government will unleash every weapon in its arsenal to wipe out 2 million feral cats … Continue reading

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