Ajit Randeniya As almost every political commentator that matters has noted, the final result of the 2010 general election did not contain many surprises. An observer without much familiarity with the majority of the personalities who contested, this writer was awaiting the results to witness further proof of the totally unshakable faith the Sri Lankan […]

Ajit Randeniya The matters relating to the concept of national sovereignty raised by Dr Nihal Jayawickrama in a recent Sunday newspaper article deserve comment and response due to the sacrosanct nature sovereignty to Sri Lanka, and to the developing countries of the world in general. The fundamental issue Dr Jayawickrama raises is that Sri Lanka’s […]

Ajit Randeniya According to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the US Centre for Public Integrity, George W. Bush and the neocons Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Paul Wolfowitz “ƒ”¹…”unequivocally’ stated on at least 935 separate occasions between September 11, 20001 and March 19, 2003 Iraqi invasion, that Iraq had weapons of mass […]

Ajit Randeniya The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), with a budget of $65 million and over 100,000 members, is the main Zionist lobby group in America that influences the US-Israel relationship. Though described as a lobby group, AIPAC often goes beyond simple lobbying, and with the assistance of a large network of White House, […]

Ajit Randeniya The primary technique through which America maintains its shaky neo-colonialist influence on the developing world is by affecting “ƒ”¹…”regime change’ at the slightest sign of challenge to the system, usually through subservient or corrupt local collaborators (think Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sarath Fonseka). ƒ”š‚ When the stakes are higher however, if a strong Arab leader appears […]

Ajit Randeniya British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is “ƒ”¹…”outstanding’ in a number of ways: he is noted for his impetuous personality; idiotic utterances about his “ƒ”¹…”concern for Human Rights globally’; and his unrealistic (though not improbable!) ambition to become next Prime Minister of Britain. ƒ”š‚ What is less well known perhaps is that he, similar to […]

Ajit Randeniya Any Sri Lankan preoccupied with implementing Zionist agendas such as instituting “ƒ”¹…”accountability mechanisms’ to work out “ƒ”¹…”who shot whom’ at Nandikathal lagoon, and restoring the special “ƒ”¹…”Human Rights’ of Sarath Fonseka to air conditioned accommodation and mobile phones need to stop for a moment, please. ƒ”š‚ It came to light last week that since […]

Ajit Randeniya The death last week of David Kimche, one of Mossad’s more celebrated spies fortuitously attracts the limelight to the dirty and unethical foundation on which its largely undeserved reputation as an invincible spy organisation with a legendary record of almost super-human, and at times thrilling, achievements is built on. ƒ”š‚ The botched murder of […]

Ajit Randeniya Ashis Nandy, the Bengali social theorist who gave up medical training to study social sciences and psychology, and was named amongst the top 100 public intellectuals of the world by the “ƒ”¹…”Foreign Policy’ magazine in 2008, has written extensively on a variety of topics including public conscience and dialogues between civilisations. ƒ”š‚ In the […]

Ajit Randeniya Sri Lanka is currently a hotbed of espionage; the place is teeming with US, British, Australian and Israeli spies operating, almost at will, under cover as journalists, aid workers, tourists and people with various business interests. ƒ”š‚ Those with an interest in this area and monitor events have always known that the man named […]

Ajit Randeniya The intensification of subterranean activities of the US embassy in Colombo and USAID in the north and east of Sri Lanka, especially following the defeat of their “ƒ”¹…”trump card’, Sarath Fonseka, is such that the Sri Lankan government needs to declare it a spectator sport and collect some additional taxes! ƒ”š‚ The latest news […]

Ajit Randeniya The decision by the European Union (EU) to send an ambassador named “ƒ”¹…”Savage’ to Sri Lanka appears deliberate, and in recognition of the fact that the former colonisers’ are in fact a group of barbarians yet to learn the ways of civilised human interaction. ƒ”š‚ The savage who is representing EU in Sri Lanka […]

Ajit Randeniya While the Sri Lankan government leaders, politicians and the general population are looking away, busily engaged in implementing the democratic right of our people to vote, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) operatives and programs appear to be busily at work, at grass roots levels, in the northern and eastern regions […]

Ajit Randeniya The greatest challenge posed by Robert Blake’s recent remarks on Sri Lanka, while his agent Fonseka is yet to explain the source of the US dollar bounty, and while his neocon forces in Afghanistan are exterminating poor Afghan villagers, is to find means of expressing the utter disgust such remarks deserve; they surpass […]

Ajit Randeniya British right wing polemicist Frank Johnson coined the term “ƒ”¹…”Commentariat’ to refer to the usually university educated politically active “ƒ”¹…”metropolitan middle class’, especially those with political, media, and academic connections who see themselves as the arbiters of conventional wisdom and morality. Dr Gunadasa Amarasekera probably alluded to the parallel group in Sri Lanka […]

Ajit Randeniya The Daily News of the 17th reported that a team of Israeli executives was arriving in Colombo to sign a bilateral agreement with the Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare Ministry of Sri Lanka to provide more job opportunities for Sri Lankans as attendants and agricultural workers in Israel. ƒ”š‚ This news is particularly interesting, […]

Ajit Randeniya They are worried! The end of the war in Sri Lanka removed a convenient diversion from the Genocide that is taking place in Palestine, Afghanistan and Pakistan and the resounding victory of President Rajapakse showed that the Sri Lankan polity, especially the rural masses, are well informed about the conspiracies aimed at keeping […]

Ajit Randeniya The news last week that Robert Blake summoned the Sri Lankan Ambassador to the US Jaliya Wickremasuriya to the State Department to lodge ‘strong protests’ over the arrest of Sarath Fonseka provides conclusive proof that Blake ‘cultivated’ Fonseka as a US spy over a relatively long period of time, and backed his ‘campaign’. […]

Ajit Randeniya Dear Reader, now that the foreign-sponsored impudent interruption to the post-war reconstruction of Sri Lanka is over, suppose you were an idiot; and suppose you were Sarath Fonseka; but I repeat myself. Please forgive me, what I meant to ask was that “ƒ”¹…”How would Fonseka be feeling? ƒ”š‚ He lived in a fool’s paradise […]

Ajit Randeniya Further commenting on the ignominious end of the Pawnseka debacle gives as much joy as kicking a dead dog. The Sri Lankan people have demonstrated in no uncertain terms that they know a fraud when they see one! One spiteful kick on the political carcass of Pawnseka reveals that he is well and […]

Ajit Randeniya The presidential election campaigns that just-ended had a few defining moments. Though the likely result of the election was largely determined at the very moment the common candidate announced his ridiculous decision that he wanted to be king, the people’s resolve was sealed when it was announced that he was going to be […]

Ajit Randeniya There are many characteristics about the public persona of Ranil Wickremesinghe even his political enemies would be likely to find disturbing; he comes across as a man immersed in a great sea of self-pity, some one who weeps into the pillow every night due to “ƒ”¹…”permanent background misery’. ƒ”š‚ Judging by Ranil’s never-ending references […]

Ajit Randeniya The death last Sunday of Mr Jyoti Basu, the best-known face of communism in India marks the end of an era when the privileged classes created by colonialists gave birth to Communists who led the campaign against it, proving one of the enduring maxims of Marxism. ƒ”š‚ Basu was a member of the Communist […]

Ajit Randeniya The US and Norwegian sponsored anti-corruption brigade’s attempt to bribe National Freedom Front (NFF) MP Mohamed Muzzamil is polemicist’s dream. It provides more “ƒ”¹…”I told you so’ opportunities than a drunken gambler’s wife would get in a casino! ƒ”š‚ However, avenues available for the honest expression of contempt and indignation over this dastardly act […]

Ajit Randeniya It is obvious that Sarath Pawnseka’s pathetically negative election campaign, if you can call that a campaign, based on non-credible charges of corruption against President Rajapakse and un-funded promises of “ƒ”¹…”milk and honey’ for everyone has backfired. The foreign conspirators and local morons who are sponsoring his candidature have failed miserably to correctly […]

Ajit Randeniya The motley crew of people and political parties Robert Blake commissioned to manufacture Adigar Pawnseka’s farcical presidential candidature has now dwindled down effectively to the bank robber and self-confessed murderer Somawansa Amarasinghe. Amarasinghe seems to be stealing the limelight at every possible occasion; the photograph of his bare-bodied appearance in a Hindu temple, […]

Ajit Randeniya It is more than eight years since the “ƒ”¹…”alleged’ terrorist attacks of 9/11 on America, and two wars are still raging in the Middle East and its neighbourhood under the pretext of bringing the perpetrators “ƒ”¹…”to justice’. The war effort has only just been rejuvenated by none other than the “ƒ”¹…”Great Black Hope’, […]

Ajit Randeniya Fonsymorons (backers of Sarath Fonseka) getting desperate. Nothing seems to go right for them! ƒ”š‚ They are now convinced that the great challenger they decided to pitch against President Rajapakse suffers from an incurable case of the “ƒ”¹…”foot in mouth’ disease. They are convinced that Fonseka’s pillow talk with Frederica Jansz, and its aftermath […]

Ajit Randeniya Philip Alston is a very busy man. Since 2004 he has been occupying one of the UN “ƒ”¹…”Special Rapporteur’ positions, a la Radhika Coomaraswamy and other “ƒ”¹…”pets’ of those who run the world from their US, EU and UN bases. ƒ”š‚ Alston’s job description emphasises the need for “ƒ”¹…”visits’ to countries around the world […]

Ajit Randeniya The saga of Sarath Fonseka’s Presidential campaign is proving to be a farce that will easily outdo that of the 2008 campaign of Sarah Pelin . The possibility of a future ‘President Fonseka’ taking office has already become a logical inconsistency similar to ‘boiling snow’. The simple reasons are that the man is […]