Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake ‘History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce”  Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte  ‘Make the Economy Scream’  were President Nixon’s instructions to the Central Intelligence Agency, September 1970, as the first Socialist President of Chile, Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity Party swept to power amid Cold War headwinds.[i] According to […]

Senaka Weeraratna  The new Booker Prize winner appears to be a Empire Loyalist or one with multiple loyalties. Like Arundhati Rao, another Booker Prize winner, who is Anti Majoritarian to the core and whose pastime is repeatedly attacking Hinduism and other Sanatana Dharma religions. To the vast majority of Hindus Arundhati Rao is a traitor […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. (පුදන කොටම කාපි යකා කියන්නාක් මෙන්, ජනාධිපති රනිල් – හිටපු කතානායක කරු ජයසූරිය යන දෙදෙනා විසින් කඩිමුඩියේ දියත් කරන්නට යන ජන සභා වැඩසටහන පැහැදිලි පදනමක් රහිත ව්‍යපෘතියක්වීම නිසාම, එය වැරදිලෙස වටහාගත් සභානායක සුසිල් ප්‍රේමජයන්ත විසින් එය ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට එකඟ නැතැයි ප්‍රකාශ කලේය. ජන සභා සිස්ටම් එකක් මඟින් ලංකාවේ පක්ෂ දේශ-පාලකයින් විසින් […]

By John Perkins Why is Saudi Arabia suddenly defying the United States, after five decades of a strong alliance? It’s a question I’ve been asked frequently in recent days. Here’s the answer. I describe in my books the deal that I helped forge in the early 1970s that created this alliance. Known as the Saudi Arabian […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS USA has continued to invade, bomb and kill in foreign countries, undeterred by the Vietnam defeat in 1975. US methods are now  more sophisticated USA now uses smart bombs and drone-guided missiles instead of B-52s and napalm,  but US  is as brutal and ruthless  as ever, said critics.  US says it is waging […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS During the course of   its various wars, United States   has committed crimes that seriously violate international law,    announced China. They include war crimes, crimes against humanity, arbitrary detention, and torture of prisoners. American aggressiveness over the past decade has an absolutely criminal character, agreed other analysts. The US has the worst history of […]

සටහන :අසිරු වේදිත කරුණාරත්න. මුහුන පොතින් උපුටාගැනීමකි දෙවියකු සේ පූජනීයත්වයට පත්විය යුතු වුවත් 1956 දි විශ්‍රාම යාමත් සමඟ කන්නන්ගර මහතාට ලබන්නෙ අභාග්‍යවත් කාලයක්. දේශපාලනඥයකු ලෙස තම පැවැත්ම වෙනුවෙන් තනතුර භාවිත නොකළ බැවින් විසි වසරකට අධික කාලයක් ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය නියෝජනය කළත් ජිවිතයේ සැඳෑ කාලය ගෙවීමට තරම් හෝ ආර්ථිකයක් එතුමා සතු කරගෙන නොතිබූ නිසා 1961 ඔක්තෝබර් මස 26 […]

By Stephen Messenger Courtesy The dodo.com Earlier this week, after a sudden illness, 56-year-old Peetambaram Rajan passed away in the Batticaloa region of Sri Lanka. But though there appears to be few details about his life recorded online, the reaction of those Rajan left behind suggest his was one teeming with love. And not just for […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The report regarding the welfare arrangements of the underage children of women under 45 years of age is compulsory when leaving the country for foreign employment, the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLFEB) said. Addressing the media, the number of Sri Lankans leaving the country for foreign employment has increased, with […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The newly-gazetted personal income tax will be implemented from November 1, after the approval by the Finance Committee of the Parliament and the signature of the Speaker. Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said this while speaking at a press conference in Ruwanwella. Earlier, a gazette notification was issued amending the Inland Revenue Act. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) has looked into maintaining a special rice reserve of 8,000 metric tons in accordance with the Colombo declaration of the SAARC Organization and the 16th Summit meeting. The committee also probed the rice reserves of 100,000 metric tons not being maintained in the warehouses owned by the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has requested the Auditor General to conduct a special investigation into the transfer of ownership of lands by the Land Reform Commission (LRC) for the past 20 years. The request was made by the COPE chairman, Prof. Ranjith Bandara during its meeting which looked into the irregularities […]