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Ending the circle of Ragging, brainwashing & strikes

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By Nadira Gunatilleke By now 73 years have passed since the day Sri Lanka gained Independence. Various political parties...
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‘India has a Neighbourhood, Cannot Live on American Support Alone’—AS Dulat

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‘Everybody has found a convenient place in Afghanistan, but what about India?’— Interview with AS Dulat, former RAW chief on India’s strategic...
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To Counter U.S. Hostility China Moves Towards People Centered Policies

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In December 2001 China became a member of the World Trade Organization. That opened new markets for China's industry and attracted a...
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Keeping policy loose is smart in this pandemic

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BY RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE Why shouldn’t a Government change its fiscal and monetary policies from time to time? Because they...
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Powerful narratives celebrating Susil Siriwardena et al

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BY Rajpal Abeynayake  This article is not an obituary for an old friend – more of an acquaintance really...
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Al Qaeda and ISIS will get buried if US and NATO stop invading other nations

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By M M Zuhair Former US President George Bush’s and then British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s post 9/11 ‘War...
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Over Two Decades, US’ Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion

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A new report from the Costs of War Project makes staggering estimates for the human and financial costs of the global forever...
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The U.S. Has A Plan For What’s Next in Afghanistan – It Does Not Include Peace

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Secretary Antony Blinken @SecBlinken - 1:34 UTC · Aug 31, 2021 I want to drive home today that America’s work in Afghanistan continues....
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Lessons learnt from Afghanistan

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BY KATHYA DE SILVA SENARATH As chaos unravels in Afghanistan, fingers are pointed at the US for the inability...
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Afghanistan: To Recognise, or Not to Recognise, that’s the Question

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By M. K. Bhadrakumar At the weekly briefing in Moscow on Thursday by the Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova...
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Who’s afraid of ‘protectionism’?

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By Shiran Illanperuma Protectionism – the word evokes entirely negative connotations in debates over economic policy in Sri Lanka....
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Exceptional leadership success: Courage to persist with maturity and resilience

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BY HEMANTHA KULATUNGA Sir Winston Churchill, a great statesman, soldier, Nobel Prize-winning writer, and historian once said “success is...
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US Reputation Is in Tatters, It’s Time to Bring Those Responsible for Afghanistan Disaster to Account

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Twenty years of US war in Afghanistan draws to a close at the stroke of midnight on August 31. There will be...
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Covid-19 and citizenship

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By Malinda Seneviratne The vast majority of those who have succumbed to the virus were un-vaccinated. The vast majority...
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Will Ukraine Face the Same Abandonment after US Exit from Afghanistan?

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America is good at making promises but not so good at keeping them. By Johanna Ross
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Here Come the Terrorists. Again

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The search for new enemies will continue no matter who is president or which party dominates congress, Phil Giraldi writes.
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The Neocons Speak: Afghanistan as Political Real Estate

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By Dr. Binoy Kampmark When the tears dry, it is worth considering why there is so much upset about the...
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Quad Meets the “Saigon Moment”

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By M. K. Bhadrakumar The regional tour of Southeast Asia by the US Vice-President Kamala Harris got inundated with the tsunami of...
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President addresses the nation

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Terror hubs from Washington DC to Kabul, London to Johannesburg

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By Malinda Senevirathne The First Anglo-Afghan War, William Dalrymple observed just a week ago (‘Britain’s fourth Afghan war is...
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US in Afghanistan (2001-2021) for National or Corporate interest?

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By Shenali D Waduge Are America’s wars, on behalf of US citizens or to fatten the bank accounts of...
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All should help to take the country forward – President

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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in his address to the nation on Friday (August 20) called on everyone to...
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Covid-19 deaths: Over 95 percent unvaccinated

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BY NADIRA GUNATILLEKE The number of Covid-19 deaths reported up to August 14 was 5,775 and over 95 percent...
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Kabul puts an end to American hegemony

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BY H.L.D. MAHINDAPALA “We were devoid of fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We did not know what we were doing.”...
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Successful vaccination drive will help contain the pandemic – President

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“Country cannot bear another complete lockdown” President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called on the masses to be prepared for a prolonged...
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Self-locking down of cities, the work of imbeciles

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BY RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE There is chaos in the world now and the way each Government wants to handle this...
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Renewal of the Two Party System (part two)

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By Dhammika Amarakoon Former JVP MP Lal Kantha has a second theory about the dominance of the two party...
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Monk & The Prime Minister: Did A Sri Lankan Buddhist Monk Influence The Founder Of Israel?

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By Punsara Amarasinghe Israel faced a series of existing challenges after its formation...
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Spit and venom in Geneva (same old, same old)

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By Malinda Seneiratne It's essentially an expression of anger over Sri Lanka refusing to inhibit Bachelet's version
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The Other Afghan Women

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In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.
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Ending the circle of Ragging, brainwashing & strikes

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By Nadira Gunatilleke By now 73 years have passed since the day Sri Lanka gained Independence. Various political parties...
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‘India has a Neighbourhood, Cannot Live on American Support Alone’—AS Dulat

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‘Everybody has found a convenient place in Afghanistan, but what about India?’— Interview with AS Dulat, former RAW chief on India’s strategic...
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