USA & India Eye Trincomalee after Attacks on Diego Garcia
Posted on April 6th, 2026
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e-Con e-News 29 March – 04 April 2026
As our New Year dawns and the sun arcs directly over Sri Lanka after crossing the equator – the northern hemisphere’s spring equinox – the English media in Sri Lanka as usual act surprised at the mounting heat, just as they feign surprise that the white man is waging yet another war of annihilation on the world.
After declaring ‘War is Fun’, the USA is not only blocking publication of satellite imagery, they are also blocking ‘unflattering’ photos of their Secretary of War. These moves only amplify the need to exert more precision in repeating & sharing real news especially about the ebb & flow of their wars. This misinformation (ignorance) & disinformation (deliberate inexactitudes) are especially inserted by so-called ‘established’ media like the BBC, CNN, Reuters & other imperialist news agencies who claim to be independent of their powerful warmongering states (see ee Media).
Every single hallucination or oral flatulence emanating from the US Government via the US Embassy in Colombo, is faithfully stenographed by the English media in Sri Lanka. This also includes the minute-by-minute exculpations of the English Embassy, with the media repeating every mumble and effluent that emanates out of their air-conditioned offices & orifices. The US & European wars do not just spring out of the brow of a Donald Trump or his White House deputy chief of staff for policy & homeland security advisor, the Zionist-Nazi Stephen Miller, or other officials such as Peter Hegseth, etc, or high tech advisors like Palantir’s Alex Karp & Peter Thiel (whose electricity-guzzling data centres are top beneficiaries of stolen oil), or any one ‘diaspora’ – these new guys are all fronting for a very old US settler colonial ruling class, which spreads its tentacles across the world.
This ee therefore recalls the founder of the English news agency Reuters – which divided up the news-world with Havas (Agence France-Presse, AFP, France), and Wolff (Deutsche Presse Agentur, DPA, Germany) in 1859. ‘Telegraph Baron’ Julius de Reuter, took hold of Iran’s entire industrial economy after England waged war on Persia (1856-57) using Indian troops. (see ee Random Notes) The English war only ended with the famed 1857 revolt in India against English rule, a war misnamed ‘The Sepoy Mutiny’ which Indians call their ‘1st War of Liberation’ from English rule (yet to be completed!), and came 9 years after our ‘2nd War of Liberation’ against English rule in 1848 (our first in 1818). Indeed, Iran was/is a passage not just to India, but to Sri Lanka and China as well.
The Straits of Hormuz have not been closed by Iran, but by imperialist insurance companies (see ee 07 March 2026). Iran’s official media just announced that 15 ships have been allowed to pass through Hormuz in the last 24 hours (even as no ships linked to US or Israeli or other countries attacking Iran, including allies of the USA, are allowed through – hence the constant US ultimatums).
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India’s creeping demands over Sri Lanka’s extremely strategic eastern port of Trincomalee, was the subject of much media chatter this week. The USA has now approached India for its vessels to access Indian ports, invoking the US-Indian Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA). LEMOA (see ee Quotes) allows access to Indian bases for US vessels for logistical support. India is being pressured to offer their bases to the USA due to Washington’s inability to halt attacks on US bases in the Gulf countries surrounding Iran. These are Iran’s defensive strikes against US military & other facilities in US-led Gulf states, in response to the USA launching annihilating attacks on Iran, on civilian power and bridge infrastructure, many universities and schools, and 1000s of residences, while increasing US ground troops. Iran’s level of resistance has been the real surprise to the superpower intent on recolonization of the world – hence, the USA & India’s imminent moves on Trincomalee.
‘As Diego Garcia becomes a frontline target, Washington turns its gaze toward Colombo’s strategic neutrality’, asserts Lasanda Kurukulasuriya (see ee Focus), ‘Washington is no longer just observing Sri Lanka – it is eyeing it as a vital insurance policy against a fractured Chagos lease and an increasingly long-reaching Tehran.’ She places US moves on Sri Lanka midst public pronouncements by the US government prior to launching their latest war on Iran: These include official statements released during the US Pacific Fleet Commander of the Admiral Stephen Koehler visiting Sri Lanka from 19-21 February, and the silences that followed the US ambush of Iranian ship Dena near Galle, and the meteoric appearance from 19-24 March US Special Envoy (US Ambassador to India) Sergio Gor in Colombo, about which ‘there was little… publicity’, except the Sri Lankan President’s belated claim of a US demand to land armed aircraft in Mattala.
Kurukulasuriya does provide a pinch of scepticism by writing of ‘Iran’s apparent use of intermediate-range ballistic missiles’, to attack the US base on that atoll stolen by England and ‘leased’ to the USA. There is much doubt about origins of the attack. It was first reported by Al Jazeera, BBC & Reuters, the premier lip-services of the imperialists – reports which Iran has vehemently denied. US President Don Trump’s blathering about the English cosplaying with Mauritius over the atoll, and news of Iran’s attacks on it, also preceded English PM Ken Starmer’s permission for the USA to launch attacks on Iran from England & Diego Garcia, midst the attempts to sculpt another ‘coalition of the willing’.
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• US Slavery & Tea Plantations – The US is moving to further tinker with their constitution’s 14th Amendment (see ee Workers) which declared Africans (as well as corporations!) to be human. They are aiming to disenfranchise the voting rights of their non-European citizens. Meanwhile, the United Nations (under severe criticism for remaining a rich white enclave in Manhattan, constantly printing out good intentions, yet only demanding that non-European adhere to such pulpy ideals) has declared ‘Transatlantic Slavery’ to be the ‘Gravest Crime Against Humanity’, a resolution moved by Ghana, which Sri Lanka supported, with only the USA, Israel & Argentina voting Against, and unsurprisingly Canada, England & EU countries abstaining...
Transatlantic slavery was later transported to this Ocean called Indian more massively, after the historic revolution by Africans in Haiti. The ‘peculiar’ system found a home in Ceylon under the English in their plantations. This ee thus delineates the ‘definite deterrents to the Sinhala villager joining the plantation workforce… their reaction was not to wage labour as such but against the plantation system’. Thus SBD de Silva in Chapter 9 of his classic The Political Economy of Underdevelopment, dismisses the spurious claims by companies and the colonial state about the Sinhala ‘aversion to wage labour and to physical toil’ (see ee Focus).
De Silva shows how such white supremacist justifications were an enduring ‘part of a supporting ideology which…[had] served as a moral basis for the commercialization of slavery in the New World’. Such claims were made ‘to justify the low wage economy’ (which continues to this day in Sri Lanka), and the coercive labour practices of European investors. The recruitment of labour was ‘hardly voluntary’ and used ‘various forms of extra-economic pressure’ aka labor hunting, as well as all sorts of deception (still alive today in the inducements to work in West Asia as well as Europe & its settler states).
Indeed, SBD de Silva uses this chapter to posit the main thrust of his book’s thesis (or counter-thesis), to demolish the ‘model’ of the Caribbean’s WA Lewis (who was awarded a Nobel Prize & anointed a knight) that asserted colonial countries had a modern sector (plantations) which would pull workers out of the impoverishment of the subsistence sector (small agriculture). SBD de Silva’s book shows the plantations are neither modern nor capitalist, which this Chapter 9 clearly begins to expose, with its non-settler colonial predilection for unfree labor.
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The media keeps repeating that the USA has no plan, or keeps changing them. This is not so true. Their plan is to sustain & extend their colonial domination. Their main negotiators are their military demolition units & 2 real-estate agents. Submission or chaos. The USA (& Europe)’s wars & policies wish to set back the clock on the ‘gains made by labor & national liberation movements’. They seek to hang us separately if we do not hang together. On this anniversary, of the US government’s ‘Liberation Day’ through ‘reciprocal tariffs’, Shiran Illanperuma (see ee Focus) recalls that many media sold the tariffs ‘as a defense of US workers’, ‘nationalism’, ‘protectionism’ & mercantilism’. But…‘They missed the point’.
The US policies are ‘a coherent political-economic strategy aimed at reversing the most consequential structural shift of the past 2 decades: the slow, uneven, but real rise of economic autonomy.’ He traces it to the ‘New Mood in the Global South’, after the 2008 ‘Global Financial Crisis’ undermined the imperialist-dominated economic order. The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research calls it ‘a new mood’ of nations & people around the world, refusing to be subordinate to the ‘post-Cold War order’, especially opposing industrialization (the attacks on Iran’s energy & steel production factories epitomize these nihilistic objectives, par excellence!).
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