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February 17, 2016 · 2:17 am

Mihintale in Lanka adds a Toxic Frog to the World’s Endemic Problems

Malaka Rodrigo, courtesy of Sunday Times, where the title is “Toxic frog joins elite endemic club” The Mihintale narrow-mouthed frog and below, the tadpole of this frog  

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July 15, 2016 · 6:38 pm

Pepe Escobar on Pivoting and Powermongering

I. Pepe Escobar: “Who’s Pivoting Where in Eurasia?” 18 May 2014, .… Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. Consider this: our advanced robotic creatures, those drone aircraft grimly named Predators and Reapers, are still blowing away human beings from Yemen to Pakistan.  Meanwhile, the Pentagon is now … Continue reading →

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November 1, 2015 · 6:02 am

Leopards and Wildcats in Lanka endangered?

An international summit on Asian wildcats begins tomorrow in Mount Lavinia as local concerns rise over the number of leopards – Sri Lanka’s most charismatic wild cat – killed in the span of a few weeks, some through reckless driving. … Continue reading →

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February 23, 2016 · 2:07 am

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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February 19, 2016 · 3:14 pm

Righteous Blindness. In Cricket and In War

Michael Roberts, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, 18 February 2016, where the title is “Secular Fundamentalism in One-Eyed Overkill“ Because of such incidents as the Charlie Hebdo killings in January 2015 and the recent assaults in Paris in November 2015 those … Continue reading →

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October 27, 2015 · 2:09 am

The Realities of Eelam War IV

Michael Roberts, courtesy of the essay in Colombo Telegraph  entitled “Down–to-Earth: The Hard Truths of Eelam War IV, ” which , alas, does not contain the vital hyperlinks. Nor does it contain the illustrative maps and images that are a vital … Continue reading →

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March 5, 2015 · 1:08 pm

Nanda Godage castigates the Abuse of Diplomatic Passports in Recent Past

K. Godage, courtesy of the Daily News, … http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=features/scandalous-abuse-diplomatic-passports There has been a shocking and absolutely scandalous abuse of this privilege by the last government, surely persons such as then Secretary to the President at least should have known better; … Continue reading →

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June 8, 2015 · 9:04 pm

Reflections on Ondaatje’s WOOLF IN CEYLON

 Gamini Seneviratne, reviewing Christopher Ondaatje: Woolf in Ceylon. An Imperial Journey in the Shadow of Leonard Woolf-1904-1911 (2006)  This book runs to over 300 pages – room enough for Christopher Ondaatje to touch on virtually every aspect of Leonard Woolf’s life and … Continue reading →

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June 21, 2014 · 3:51 am

Dire Warnings: From Syria to Iraq to Afghanistan

Greg Sheridan, in The Weekend Australian, 21 June 2012, where the title is “Danger lies in tribal loyalties” SO President Barack Obama will send 300 US military advisers into Iraq after all. Is this the start of something bigger, as … Continue reading →

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September 5, 2012 · 2:10 pm

The White Australia Policy, Ceylonese Burghers and Alice Nona

Earl Forbes, courtesy of The Ceylankan, vol. 59/3  August 2012 World War II (the War) ended in August 1945.  For nearly six years the world was thrown into hitherto unseen turmoil and carnage, culminating in decimation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  … Continue reading →

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