Courtesy Island Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris has alleged that the country is in chaos due to the government’s failure in every sector. Prof. Peiris issued the following statement headlined ‘The Anatomy of Yahapalanaya’: “One of the most senior Ministers of the Government in a public speech in his home constituency has declared […]

by Carlo Fonseka Courtesy Island When word came from Singapore on the 8th of November that Venerable Sobitha was dead my emotions overwhelmed my reason. To admit this is not necessarily to embrace unreason. Some critics jibed that my reason must have “fled to brutish beasts”. A Shakespearian insight came to mind: “He jests at scars […]

Pepe Escobar Courtesy RT It all started with French President Francois Hollande, after the Paris attacks, having the temerity to advance the idea of France working together with Russia in the same coalition against ISIS/ISIL/Daesh in Syria. Turkish President Recep Tayyip no excuse” Erdogan thought NATO and Russia by this time would be at each other’s […]

RT A Turkish fighter jet launched a missile at a Russian bomber on Tuesday well ahead of the Su-24 approaching the Turkish border, the chief of Russia’s Air Force said. The bomber remained on Turkish radars for 34 minutes and never received any warnings. TrendsSu-24 downing The attack on the Russian Su-24 bomber was intentional […]

By Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch | News Analysis United Nations Industrial Development Organization Director General Li Yong delivers remarks at the opening of the cultural week of China’s Silk Road Economic Belt, October 6, 2014. (Photo: UNIDO / Flickr) The US is transfixed by its multibillion-dollar electoral circus. The European Union is paralyzed by austerity, fear […]

– දිල්රුක් කන්නන්ගර හද්දා ගොන් කමකට අත ගසමින් UNP ආණ්ඩුව පොහොර සහනාධාරය කපා ඒ වෙනුවට මුදල් දීමට තීරණය කර ඇත. ලැයිස්තුවෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු රිංගා ගත් බත් බැලයෙක් කියනුයේ වස විස පොහොර නිසා ගොවීන් ලෙඩ වන බැවින් මෙම තීරණය ගත් බවයි. මෙහි ගොන්කම වන්නේ එම මුදලින් ගොවීන් එම වස විස පොහොර ම ගන්නා බැවිනි. ආදේශක පොහොර හඳුන්වානොදී […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The Great Grand Mother Alexandra Mary Elizabeth II, 89 years of age, has decided to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta, to be held in November 2015. The Official Website of The British Monarchy has reported ” The Queen, accompanied by The Duke of Edinburgh, will visit […]

Gomin Dayasri Courtesy The Daily Mirror Friends of Yahapalanaya (good governance) are hard to find and an extinguished breed. Needs to search vainly among the coterie enjoying the spill-offs from the gravy train to spot an unseen, unheard chump. Most holding appointments are not the squeaky clean. The genuine good governance supporters have left in dismay […]

Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Health care in Sri Lanka has been telescoped, focussed and become a contemporaneous topic where the ‘ Yahapalanaya’ government has promised to allocate more money to develop the Health Care Services. Supplementary to this subject, pharmacies and qualified pharmacists in Sri Lanka has equally become a current topic to discuss. According […]

by  Rajiv Malhotra  Indian–American researcher, author, speaker. Current affairs, inter-civilization, science -Courtesy Swarajya The sanctity of the mela is under threat from many directions. Keeping a traditional gathering open to all is different from losing control of it. When Harvard University created a major new initiative called the Harvard Kumbh Mela Project, Hindus naturally became impressed and proud. […]

Barnes Abeywardena Courtesy Island  November 26, 2015, 9:19 pm When one examines Sri Lankan politics one cannot but think that the President and the PM think that they have now outsourced what they should do to some commissions. Why else should the government keep saying it is up to the authorities to take action against the […]

Courtesy Island Thousands of people who voted for this “Yahapalanaya” government are thoroughly disappointed with some of its actions. Inability to prosecute those who are supposed to have committed serious financial irregularities, the Avant Guarde Incident, gross nepotism, unabated corruption in all public institutions and unsolved problems in the health and education sectors, crime and […]

By BANDULA JAYASEKARA Courtesy Island The government has been singing hosannas for America’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Samantha Power, who was here on a brief visit. Is Samantha Power genuine genuinely interested in Sri Lanka or government politicians are gullible? Is Sri Lanka bending over backwards to please the US? Power, who had a […]

By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror   The government’s enhanced relation with the US is reflected in Power’s remarks that the US-Sri Lankan relationships was taking place in ‘a wholly new and fresh way’. Soon after her arrival in the country, she interacted with Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera. In her remarks to the media after […]

Dr Hector Perera  London I am sure you are aware of the fact that energy is a big question for the general public, the price is always on the rise, not coming down at all. Unlike in hot weather countries, over here energy is used for heating and eating. A large number of families find […]

Gilbert Mercier NEWS JUNKIE POST In many ways, the US’ celebration of Thanksgiving is analogous to setting aside a day in Germany to celebrate the Holocaust. Thanksgiving is the American Holocaust. The sad reality about the United States of America is that in a matter of a few hundreds years it managed to rewrite its own […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy Island The four-party Tamil National Alliance (TNA) yesterday said that it would withdraw its support for the Maithripala Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government unless the latter addressed grievances of Tamil speaking people. The warning was given by TNA MP and Deputy Chairman of Committees Selvam Adaikalanathan (former TELO commander) opening the budget debate. The MP […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Prior to Jan 8 2015 people in this country saw these two persons as non- asserting utterly week men. Their assumption was purely based on the past behavior of these rather unusual friends. But strangely after Jan 8th and more particularly after August 17 both of them, though with different agendas, of […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Part III In a fit of anti-Sinhala-Buddhist rage Mr. Izeth Hussain, the Sri Lankan caricature of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIS or Daesh, has warned the ethnic majority (the Sinhala-Buddhists) that what happened to the French colonialists in […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara 25.11.2015 Open Appeal to Mahinda Rajapaksa Ex President Leave the Chandrika-Maitri trap at least now and take the lead to save this Country and the Nation As a patriot who love my country and the Sinahala Nation I appeal to MR to leave this Chandrika/My3/Ranil vicious political […]

By Charles S.Perera She is part of the USA Administration represented in the UN.  USA with its 200 odd year history is a hybrid nation of European pioneers who built their nation on the ashes of the original inhabitants.  These pioneers  reduced the original Americans to an insignificant minority.  Therefore American history and culture is […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Prior to Jan 8 2015 people in this country saw these two persons as non- asserting utterly week men. Their assumption was purely based on the past behavior of these rather unusual friends. But strangely after Jan 8th and more particularly after August 17 both of them, though with different agendas, of […]

G.K. Rajapakshe Kandy Courtesy Island November 24, 2015, 7:46 pm The world is still caught in the hue of terror of the Paris attacks by ISIS and their outcome. The lost ones are mourned, the world shared the grief of Paris and there was no one that didn’t think the unsuspecting civilians would have been living their […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා  ලංකාණ්ඩුවේ ද අනුග්‍රහයෙන් ඉදිරිපත් කෙරුණු ජෙනීවා යෝජනාවෙන් කියැවෙන කරුණුවලින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව නැවතත් යටත්විජිතයක් බවට පත් කෙරෙන අතර ත්‍රස්තවාදය වැළැක්වීමේ පණත අහෝසි කිරීමට යෝජනා කෙරෙයි.  තමන් බලයට පත්කිරීමට උපකාර කළ යටත්විජිතවාදීන්ගේ් අවශ්‍යතාව මත ආණ්ඩුව දෙමළ කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදීන් 38 දෙනකු දැනටමත් ඇප මත නිදහස් කර ඇති අතර තවත් කණ්ඩායමක් ඊනියා පුනරුත්ථාපනයකට ලක්කර නිදහස් කිරීමට […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island The French response to Nov. 13 Paris massacre should be examined against the backdrop of Sri Lanka having to address accountability issues during eelam war IV (Aug 2006-May 2009). In accordance with overall Western strategy, France, a current member of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), pushed for war […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ඉන්ද්‍රනාම වස්සෙක් ද නුඹ තණකොළ බුදින​ තිබුනේ නැතුවද නුඹටත් විචාර බුද්ධියක්  මොලයක්   රැවටී නුඹ කපටීන්ට පුද කලයි නුඹේ අධ්‍යාපනය සහ තරුණ ජීවිතය මනරම් කිසිදින  යළිත් නොඑන   නායකයන් කීව පලියට කිසිදා නොදැන සිටි මිනිසුන්ට කොකා ගැස්සූ නුඹ දහම් පාසල් ගිය කාලයේ වතුරේ ගිය කූඹියාත් බේරගත්තා නේද   කියූ සැනින් බස් පුච්චා ට්‍රාන්ස්ෆෝමර විනාශ කළ නුඹ ජීවිතයේ කවදාහෝ දෙයක් […]

PRESS RELEASE Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington DC I cannot think of a country in the world today where there has been this much change in this short a period of time.” – Ambassador Samantha Power, Colombo, November 23rd United States Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Samantha Power visited Sri Lanka from November 21st to 23rd. […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  මිනිසුන් අතර අසිරිමත් මනුශ්ශ්යයෝද  යක්ෂයන් වැනි   අ  යද ඇත .  බල්ලන් අතරද එමෙන්ම කෙලෙහිගුණ දන්නා , තමන්ගේ  යුතුකම් හරියටම ඉටුකරන ගුණවත්  බල්ලන් මෙන්ම  කාපු පතේ පහරන  පාදඩ බල්ලෝද ඇත . ඒ පාදඩයෝ එක තැනක නොරදති පිළිකනු  ගානේ රස්තියාදුවෙති අහුවෙන තනි හොරාකති  ඉඳුල් ඉල්ලා ඉල්ලා  එකෙකා  පසු පස යති .  උසස් බල්ලෝ තම දේශ […]

Courtesy Sputnik News Turkey’s decision to shoot down a Russian bomber involved in an anti-terror mission against the self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group means that Ankara has effectively sided with IS.  Heading off any denial of this fact, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated Turkey’s role in the terrorist group’s illegal oil trade. Discussing the downing of the Russian […]

Ira de Silva Canada The government has lifted the ban on several organizations and individuals previously thought to have been working for the LTTE. It is reported in the media that according to the Foreign Minister “there was hardly any tangible evidence to link them to the LTTE”.  The de-listed organizations are Global Tamil Forum (GTF); […]