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Will ‘Citizens Vs judiciary’ be given ‘Leave to Proceed’?

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It’s a mischievous headline, admittedly. Citizens are not taking the judges to court. And, even if that happened, the simple matter of...
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Sri Lanka to Britain – You are no longer the British Empire. Atone for your Colonial Crimes before holding HR score cards!

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UK that occupied & ruled Sri Lanka from 1803 to 1972 (169 years) and unabashedly committed scores of human rights abuses, crimes...
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Donald Trump – undertaker for 250,000 deaths

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Donald Trump continues to keep America and the world guessing as to his next move which should be to concede victory to...
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Over a decade after the war ended: The threat persists

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The Tamil community never explained why the predominately Tamil-speaking Northern and Eastern districts voted overwhelmingly for war-winning Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka...
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Why it’s best to ignore the doomsayers

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A recent jeremiad about having to tighten our belts in part prompts this article about next year, and the more than sanguine...
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UN Resident Coordinator’s missive to PM and what an ordinary Sri Lankan thinks about it

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UN Resident Coordinator Ms Hanaa Singer’s outrageously meddlesome missive offering unsolicited advice on governance (November 12, 2020) to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa,...
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A budget presented amid celebrations and acquittals

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Over the last few weeks there has been a concerted campaign in social media attacking President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The ‘Gota Fail Campaign,’...
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SL Army medical mission to South Sudan: Saving lives, wherever they are

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The world is engulfed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a crucial chapter in history when airports are closed and people are...
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Budget 2021 | Promises challenging but achievable: Ajith Nivard Cabraal

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The Government’s 2021 Budget proposals have been presented and the debate over the Second Reading continues. Amidst a pandemic, the targets that...
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Western Human Rights Hypocrisy: Only in 1929 that WOMEN in Canada became ‘PERSONS’

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The West loves to self-appoint itself as the paragons of virtue, to bear the ‘white-man’s burden’ of ‘civilizing’ the world and point...
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…And who looked after Prabakaran’s Parents?

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India is getting its media to relay photos of Prabakaran’s dead son and interviewing Callum Macrae producer of the latest documentary tarnishing...
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EU mixes up trade and human rights

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The Delegation of the European Union and the Embassies of France, Germany, Italy Netherlands, and Romania issued a statement yesterday slamming the...
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Sri Lanka, the US, and what the future holds

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The US has been grappling with the problem of how to advance its interests in the world, and throughout much of the...
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Science and science only should decide Covid burial controversy

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There is a line between baiting a community, and being politely concerned about extremism. This tension between keeping extremism at bay and...
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Gota’s no-frills first year, whines and whiners

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It was obvious not a year that made for pomp and pageantry, even if that was the desire. All issues have been...
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“Gota Fail!” has failed

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On Monday morning a flood of posts bemoaning the failure of the Gotabaya Rajapaksa administration swamped Facebook. Conspiracies of these being funded...
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What is Mary Robinson Drinking? Ye Olde Empire Ale?

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‘The page “Sir Paget John Bourke” does not exist’ – Wikipedia A recent drunken outburst by former Irish president...
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Resurgence

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By Padraig Colman Schadenfreude For a long time, I have been complaining that the west has...
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MR’s b’day, GR’s anniversary, Lalith’s and Anusha’s tomorrow

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It’s extra special when special days arrive one after another. Today is special. It’s Mahinda’s 75th birthday. So first of all, let...
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Democracy in the Land of the Free

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Part 1 I was moved to tears watching John McCain’s concession speech of 2008 when Barack Obama won the...
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Imperialism’s Hired Coolie of the Pen: Merv’s Kolla

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Can someone please, please, please, teach Mervyn’s kolla some US History 101. Every time we fathom Merv’s kolla has...
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Does Sri Lanka have an alternative to neoliberalism?

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Last week, State Minister of Money, Capital Markets and State Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal, declared in Parliament that Sri Lanka would...
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Sri Lanka’s “NEUTRAL” Foreign Policy & conflict with Indo-US Pacific Strategy & ACSA

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Sri Lanka “to remain neutral in our foreign relations and stay out of any conflicts amongst the...
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America reeling in Trump’s Banana Republic

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America, as it stands today, is in total disarray. America is traumatised by Covid-19, radicalised by Trumpism and...
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Why don’t the Quad (US-India-Japan & Australia) just break trade ties with China?

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We have a team of 4 led by US who are going around Asia trying to build alliances against China and signing...
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State sector enriches oligarchs, or thrives in greatness?

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The new Pfizer vaccine for Coronavirus will probably take time to become commercially available and safe in a country such as ours,...
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We need not be ‘wolfish’ or ‘sheepish’ to do right by our country

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Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka’s “The Ravana Syndrome: Presidential parameters for India and Modi?” is based on the implication that the contents of the...
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Harsha’s woes

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Harsha de Silva is reportedly aggrieved at Ajith Nivard Cabraal’s statement in parliament that the government will not go to the IMF,...
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Some points for Patali

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Sudat Pasqual raises some interesting points about the potential of Sajith Premadasa as Opposition Leader (“Sajith Premadasa needs to get his act...
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Foreign policy tips from a star in the Yahapalana swamp

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MP Harsha De Silva has slammed the government for what he claims is ‘a confused foreign policy’. There’s some truth to it....
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COVID-19: THE THURSDAY REPORT (November 27, 2020)

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The after-shocks of ‘Peliyagoda’ continue to be felt. As of today, a total 21,468 cases have been reported in Sri Lanka. There...
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Will ‘Citizens Vs judiciary’ be given ‘Leave to Proceed’?

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It’s a mischievous headline, admittedly. Citizens are not taking the judges to court. And, even if that happened, the simple matter of...
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