Ajit Randeniya
According to a report in the Guardian newspaper, Britain wants to block Sri Lanka from hosting the next Commonwealth heads of government meeting (CHOGM) in 2011.
It is reported that prime minister Gordon Brown plans to tell the current meeting in Trinidad and Tobago that it would be ‘wholly unacceptable’ for Sri Lanka to be [...]

Ajit Randeniya
According to Sri Lankan media, K.K. Theventhra Rajh, an Astro-Consultant from Chennai (take that for an impressive job title!) has predicted that Ranil Wickremesinghe will be “a failure at any time” due to Saturn and Mercury ‘Dasas’ that will be governing his horoscope until 25 August 2036.
The good Astro-Consultant has also predicted that Mangala [...]

Ajit Randeniya
The likely entry of (Retd.) General Sarath Fonseka in to politics attracts attention at many levels. Superficially, his acceptance to enter politics, merely to ‘save’ the triad of desperadoes, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Somawansa Amarasinghe and Mangala Samaraweera displays an appalling lack of judgment and naivety. Secondly, his aspiration to become President shows that he may [...]

Ajit Randeniya
Most people of colour will not dare say or agree that Barack Obama’s presentation to the world as US President was a trick played on them by Uncle Sam. Unfortunately, every passing month of Obama presidency proves that this is the sad truth and disturbingly, Obama himself appears to have been an unsuspecting victim [...]

Ajit Randeniya
Americans have colourful and usually crude ways of expressing themselves. A former colleague of this writer who is still employed at the US Department of State, and was involved in compiling the infamous Sri Lankan ‘war crimes’ report recently provided a classic example.
His description of the lack of clarity of objectives of the report, [...]

Ajit Randeniya
There are signs that the Sri Lankan history is repeating itself. In 1815, the Kandyan chieftains handed over King Rajasinghe and the Kandyan kingdom to the British, barely a decade after the crushing defeat of the colonists attempt to invade Kandy.  Now there are signs that General Sarath Fonseka has swallowed or about to [...]

Ajit Randeniya
The international and local enemies of Sri Lanka who tried their ‘best’ and devious methods to divide the territory of Sri Lanka through the LTTE have not yet accepted that they failed. They are looking for new opportunities to achieve the same aim.
 There is nothing new of course, in the international meddlers applying ‘pressure’ [...]

Ajit Randeniya
Another election has been held in Sri Lanka, resulting in another outright defeat for the UNP and its leadership,. By granting the UPFA a thumping 67.8 percent of the vote, and 38 of the 55 seats in the council, the people of Southern Sri Lanka have once again sent a clear message that is [...]

Ajit Randeniya
Bernard Kouchner has been one of the European politicians showing a keen interest in Sri Lankan affairs. His demand for a visit during the last stages of the war, and other remarks, were explained largely on the grounds of ‘Humanitarian Concerns’. It is reasonable to assume that through his intrusions in to trouble-spots of [...]

Ajit Randeniya
There are some strange limits and inexplicable exceptions to the so-called ‘Freedom of Expression’ and Media Freedom concepts globally promoted by the US and the rest of the Western world. One notable prohibition relates to the use of the word ‘conspiracy’, defined as ‘an agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act’. [...]

Ajit Randeniya
 The 28 August presentations by Jehan Perera and Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu at the so-called US Institute of Peace (USIP) revealed many things about these two individuals.
 Perera, following a ‘gutless’ analysis about the situation in Sri Lanka, pleaded for the ‘support’ of the international community. He was careful not to mention money though.
 Paikiasothy’s motive was obviously [...]

Ajit Randeniya
 The Western propaganda machine, the BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and all the ‘wire services’ Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP) in particular, have gone wild with anticipation following the announcement of Lynn Pascoe’s visit to Sri Lanka. As usual, they lied to the world by suggesting that the purpose of the visit was ‘to [...]

Ajit Randeniya
In the middle of the hullabaloo regarding the expulsion of the chaos agent James Elder, and the reprisal of the lame British hyenas by denying a visa to Dr Palitha Kohona, something far more interesting was happening in the provincial town of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
 Two Norwegian passport carriers traveling under [...]

Ajit Randeniya
There is nothing that raises the hackles of the neocolonialists than a developing country havig the leadership, the guts and the vision to stand up against their evil conspiracies. This provokes them to attempt to exercise their control through devious maneouvers including campaigns of disinformation and misinformation, threats through UN agencies they have taken [...]

Ajit Randeniya
According to leading analysts of doctrinal developments in US foreign policy, the American international NGOs (INGOs) were one of the foremost elements of the “third wave of democratisation” putsch that began in 1974, as a means of achieving regime change in “target states” in alignment with the US foreign policy objectives. The “informal penetration” [...]

Ajit Randeniya
America’s ruling elite, under the spell of the neocons and other special interest groups, have traditionally based their foreign policy on the triple strategies of interference in the domestic political affairs of other countries, implementing regime change through lackeys when necessary, and as in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, bombing and invading when other plots [...]

Ajit Randeniya
Less than a month after the spectacular failure of the US and UK orchestrated attempt to destabilise Iran and implement regime change, the gullible public in the West are being bombarded at this moment with similar news of ‘protests’ in Western China.
The propaganda being dished out by the Western media arm of the conspiracy [...]

Ajit Randeniya
Whenever you open the rag The Sunday Leader, you are bound to come across a surprise or two. It could be an interesting slant in one of its many columns or a record of a detailed telephone conversation with a subject of its many “investigations”. What may not surprise you would be the chants [...]

Ajit Randeniya
It is obvious that the Americans are attempting to exploit the promised IMF loan to Sri Lanka to achieve their own strategic and political ends. As has been suggested by the Central Bank Governor Ajith Cabraal, Sri Lanka should not kneel down before the US for assistance on loan approval: after all, US is [...]

Ajit Randeniya
The standard of performance of Navi Pillay as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is fast approaching that of an unashamed Western stooge, doing their bidding in the most distasteful manner. She seems to be, quite willingly, applying different standards to assessing an publicizing Human Rights violations, taking in to consideration the [...]

Ajit Randeniya
The failed plot to oust the democratically elected Iranian President Mohamed Ahmadinejad provides features of an extremely interesting ‘experiment’ being tried out by the US agents and neocons. Its analysis may be useful due to the potential for future deployment of similar conspiracies in Sri Lanka by the unhappy imperialists.
 The attempted plot by the [...]

Ajit Randeniya
The Western media’s campaign during the lead up to the just concluded election provides a case study in the study of how their oligopoly collude to destabilise countries to implement ‘regime change’ through criminal and underhand means.
For an independent observer, or anyone who has followed Iranian affairs from the pre-Shah era to the present, [...]

Ajit Randeniya
One of the more memorable quotes that arose during the last stages of the war was the Foreign Secretary Dr Palitha Kohona’s (alleged) instructions to Nadesan and Puleedevan through Mr Nambiar regarding their surrender. The instructions were: “Just walk across to the troops, slowly! With a white flag and comply with instructions carefully”. The [...]

Ajit Randeniya
The quietness of Colombo following the end of the war has been disturbed by the noise of a bombshell from the Colombo Stock Exchange. One Mr Channa de Silva, director general of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka has announced through the Bloomberg’s stock market newsletter that he is “waiting to see [...]

Ajit Randeniya
The Times of London’s reporters Catherine ‘Five times’ Philp and Jeremy ‘Airport’ Page seem to live by the axiom attributed to the Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan that “All media exist to invest peoples lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values”.
They also seem to expect the world to believe their lies without scrutiny, [...]

Ajit Randeniya
Rarely has an attempt by the Western media to throw mud at a developing country vanished to thin air in the manner the Times Online ‘expose’ of the 20000 civilian casualties in the Sri Lankan war went limp. Upon the exposure of the ‘creative’ calculation method used to reach the 20000 figure, the article [...]

Ajit Randeniya
Following the failure of the lie-based “20000 civilian casualties in Sri Lanka” campaign to produce the impact they hoped for, the Murdoch-owned Times has now sunk even deeper in the foul smelling mire they created.
In an apparent attempt to ‘explain’ their lie, they posted on their website (on 30 May), two of the all-revealing [...]

Ajit Randeniya
The war is not over yet; there are few other enemies to fight! It is becoming obvious-by-the-day that the so-called UN representatives in Sri Lanka, Neil Bhune Gordon Weiss and ICRC’s Paul Castellano are not UN employees at all. They may be getting paid by the UN (yes, those fat UN salaries), but they [...]

Ajit Randeniya
How quickly can things change?
 
In 2006, US and Israel were the only “rogue” nations in the UN General Assembly who voted against the resolution to create the UNHRC.  Later, realising that they were missing out on a valuable tool of destabilisation of the developing world, the US joined the body exploiting the goodwill that [...]

Ajit Randeniya
The most poignant memory of the disgraceful Bush and Blair campaign of lies on the bogus Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) was the 5 February 2003 presentation by General Colin Powell (the twenty first century slave of the American ruling junta) to the UN Security Council.
Against the backdrop of Picasso’s Guernica, the [...]