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September 15, 2014 · 2:04 am

Tamil Person and State: Pictorial … Images Listed

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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November 23, 2014 · 1:37 pm

Meaningful Violence: Reflections on the Dynamic of Human Sacrifice

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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August 21, 2013 · 3:03 pm

A Mass of Oil in South Australia?

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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December 2, 2012 · 4:43 pm

In memory of Professor Freddie Bartholomeusz and Peradeniya

Ranjan Abayasekara Earlier this year an email was circulated which especially touched the hearts of Peradeniya Alumni in all corners of the world. It was titled “The world’s most beautiful university is in full bloom again”. The pictures of the … Continue reading →

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February 10, 2012 · 2:31 pm

Five Outstanding Books from yesteryear on nationalism and state-violence

Selections made by the Library of Soclal Science in New York which has teamed up with the Ideologies of War, Genocide and Terror Website and Newsletter in making thiss eelction and disseminating nformation on the subject. Further information can be gathered … Continue reading →

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May 17, 2011 · 7:21 am

Remarkable Coincidences: Oswald, Kennedy, Lincoln, Booth

A……….Lee Harvey Oswald Employed at the Texas School Book Depository There may be literally thousands of people out there at any given moment who would like to kill the President of the United States. Of these, only a tiny fraction … Continue reading →

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January 19, 2014 · 2:50 pm

Jayantha Dhanapala’s Representations before the LLRC: Food for Thought Today

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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May 2, 2014 · 3:57 am

Götterdämmerung: Suicide Music and the National Self as Enemy

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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November 7, 2010 · 2:46 am

Atop Yemen Al-Qaeda, a militant who vows to hit US

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

Two items — Face-to-face in USA: SL government vs Tamil lobby and its arms

“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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