LankaWeb Weekly Editorial July 4th 2010 Now that the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moonƒ”š‚ has on his hands theƒ”š‚ watchful eyeƒ”š‚ of the World’s Non Aligned Movement (NAM) and nations incorporated by itƒ”š‚ and the criticism of his bull in a Chinashop call to investigate Sri Lanka for war crimesƒ”š‚ perhaps he should re-thinkƒ”š‚ the folly of hisƒ”š‚ call. ƒ”š‚ In addition […]

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Geethanjana Kudaligamage Rajapakse, regional politics, “Eurocentric Developmentalism”ƒ”š‚ and the western hegemony (Part -10) ƒ”š‚ Yes news does bring us bad news some time, but not all the time. The news came from Ukraine about the tour of President Rajapakse was such good news. Ukraine’s leading English language news paper “ƒ”¹…”Kyiv Post’ reported that, as the result […]

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Ajit Randeniya Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard has not stopped whingeing since he got back from Singapore after the rejection of his nomination last week for the position of deputy president of the International Cricket Council (ICC). He received a modest degree of support from the Australian media and the public, varying in quality […]

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By Mario Perera, Kadawata The above headline in infolanka this morning informed me of the passing away of Dr.Vernon B.Mendis. I am not writing to recapitulate events pertaining to the life and work of this extraordinary figure that graced the diplomatic stage of our country like a colossus. I leave that to illustrious public personalities. […]

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By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando After watching the collapse of the Sri Lankan cricket team at Asian Cup finals against India, I went to sleep and started my night prayers in bed. How long I was up, I could not remember, but felt a sudden “ƒ”¹…”lift off,’ and I was floating in the air! Was […]

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Malin Abeyatunge Melbourne Kumaran Pathmanathan with so many aliases and most popularly a.k.a ƒ”š‚ KP in the LTTE circle is not an ordinary person but clever (to pass thro so many countries with false passports), skillful (building a fleet of ships for LTTE from crap), cunning as a fox and excellent maneuver (Many western ƒ”š‚ politicians, UN […]

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Sunil Vijayapala Australia Dear Editor, ƒ”š‚  I read a column in Sunday Times of 4 July 2010 titled ‘War crimes panel: Options available for Lanka’ which might surprise mostƒ”š‚ and its worth reading. ƒ”š‚  Here’s the short comment I made on this. ƒ”š‚  I couldn’t believe that Mahinda, being the Supreme Commanderƒ”š‚ made this grave mistake and […]

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