February 23, 2016 · 2:07 am
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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January 21, 2015 · 4:24 am
David Kilcullen, in the Weekend Australian, 17-18 January 2015, where the title is ” Remote Control Terror” … See ttp://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/terror/new-terror-paradigm-after-charlie-hebdo-raids/story-fnpdbcmu-1227187609376 for web version where there are lively blog exchanges LAST week Islamist terrorists killed 17 people in a horrifying raid on … Continue reading →
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September 13, 2014 · 1:11 pm
Philip Fernando ** The WikiLeaks that Dr. Michael Roberts crisply detailed in his Blog confirms that the US embassy in Colombo looked woefully uninformed during the last phase of Eelam War IV. The US ambassadors and their cohorts knew only … Continue reading →
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November 23, 2014 · 1:37 pm
William Harman, reprint from Soundings An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 119-35…. Note year of presentation, viz. 2000….. so that, clearly, this essay is not informed by any writings on the topic after 1999. See Addendum at end. … Continue reading →
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September 15, 2014 · 2:04 am
Michael Roberts Contents Acknowledgements v Preface vii List of Pictorial Items xvii Abbreviations xxxiii Prologue xxxv Visual Imagery within Political Struggles and Manoeuvres …. pp. 1-44 Photographs …. pp. 45-208 Postface: BBC Blind …. pp. 209-29 Bibliography …. pp. … Continue reading →
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May 2, 2014 · 3:57 am
Panayiotis Demopoulos What role did music play in the death-throes of the Reich? What did the orchestras of the Reich perform in the latter stages of the war? Examining dialogues from the bunker in the expiring days of the Reich, … Continue reading →
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January 19, 2014 · 2:50 pm
This session occurred on the 25th August 2010. the exchanges are reproduced here because they are good to think with as some of us, and Sri Lanka writ a large, consider pathways towards the reconciliation of its conflicted peoples. Chairman … Continue reading →
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August 21, 2013 · 3:03 pm
Michael Snyder in ?? with title “The Biggest Oil Discovery in 50 Years?” In a virtually uninhabitable section of South Australia, a discovery has been made which could rock the world. Some are calling it the biggest discovery of oil … Continue reading →
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November 7, 2010 · 2:46 am
Hamza Hendawi of AP Published: Nov 4, 2010 20:11 Updated: Nov 4, 2010 20:11; http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article180090.ece SANAA: Only four years after he and a band of militants made a daring escape from a Sanaa prison, Qassim Al-Raimi has become the dominant … Continue reading →
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January 30, 2011 · 12:44 pm
“Tamils in US file law suit agasnst Rajapaksa,” item in Sunday Times, 30 Jan.2011 Members of Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority have filed a lawsuit in the United States against the island’s president, seeking $30 million in damages over alleged extrajudicial killings. … Continue reading →
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