Neil Clark Courtesy RT It was seven years ago this week that the conflict in Syria began. How might it have developed without the negative role played by Western powers and their regional allies? Beware the Ides of March, the old saying goes. The 15th of March down the ages has seen not only the assassination […]

Courtesy RT Incumbent Russian leader Vladimir Putin is set to secure a resounding victory in the Russian presidential election, according to partial results made public by the electoral commission. Vladimir Putin is now leading with 75.50 percent of the vote, well above the simple majority needed to avoid a run-off. First-time Communist Party candidate Pavel […]

Courtesy RT The Russian Foreign Ministry said 23 UK diplomats must leave Russia in response to Britain’s provocative actions and groundless accusations” over ex-double agent Sergei Skripal’s poisoning. The British Council will also be shut. Britain’s ambassador to Russia, Laurie Bristow, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Saturday morning, where he was informed of […]

Courtesy RT Some 42 percent of elderly US citizens have less than $10,000 put aside for their golden years, according to the report by a personal finance resource GoBankingRates, which polled over 1,000 adults last month. The survey, carried out for the third consecutive year, suggests that a lack of planning and savings, along with […]

NIRJ DEVA DL FRSA MEP Conservative MEP for the South East of England Chairman of the Delegation to the Korean Peninsula Vice Chairman of International Development Committee ECR Group Coordinator 14/03/2018 – Strasbourg: Ladies and Gentlemen, we thank you for coming to what I think is a historic press conference. I begin by saluting President´s Trump´s acceptance […]

 Courtesy RT Published time: 13 Mar, 2018 19:02   The public has learnt a new Russian word: Novichok or novice, as the UK claims it is a nerve agent that poisoned former double agent Sergei Skripal. But, as with many elements of this saga, this chemical raises many questions. British Prime Minister Theresa May said […]

Massacre at Dachau and other Allied war crimes https://youtu.be/73nZMzHkbEA

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, Geneva The Conference on Disarmament (CD) presided over by Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha, on Friday (16 February 2018), adopted a Decision to establish five subsidiary bodies to discuss all items in its agenda, with a view to advance the […]

Ian Cobain Courtesy  The Guardian Documents on the Falklands, Northern Ireland’s Troubles, and the infamous Zinoviev letter among those ‘misplaced’, leaving historians suspicious Thousands of government papers detailing some of the most controversial episodes in 20th-century British history have vanished after civil servants removed them from the country’s National Archives and then reported them as lost. Documents concerning […]

by Prof.Asanga Abeyagoonasekera* I’m gonna do what’s right,..I want to be unpredictable, The voters want unpredictability” -Donald J Trump Trumpism thrives. It influences decisions with a sense of unpredictability and the effects of Trumpism on policy has affected the entire world. The release of the National Security Strategy articulates and reaffirms his policy of America First. Trump’s […]

By Anand Chandrasekhar Courtesy Swissinfo.ch  Thirteen financiers accused of funnelling more than CH15 million ($15.3 million) to the Sri Lankan Tamil separatist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) will stand trial before the Swiss Federal Criminal Court on Monday. The accused are from Switzerland, Germany and Sri Lanka. Some are former members of the World Tamil […]

By F. William Engdahl  Courtesy Global Research,  The Russian government has recently announced it will issue nearly $1 billion equivalent in state bonds, but denominated not in US dollars as is mostly the case. Rather it will be the first sale of Russian bonds in China’s yuan. While $1 billion may not sound like much when compared with […]

Chris Baynes Courtesy The Independent•December 21, 2017  The United Nations human rights chief is to step down, suggesting that his re-election would involve ”lessening the independence and integrity of my voice” after his outspoken criticism of world powers – including the US. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said he would not seek a second four-year term as the High Commissioner for Human […]

  YANGON (Reuters) – Hundreds of Buddhists took to the streets in western Myanmar on Sunday to protest against aid organizations they accuse of giving support to Muslim Rohingya militants, police and a protest leader said. Buddhist monks and members of the Rakhine ethnic group held demonstrations in 15 towns, including the Rakhine state capital […]

By Richard KimTwitter Courtesy The Nation The country is ruled by oligarchs and their enablers. t just so happened that during the week that Republicans rammed a $1.5 trillion tax bill through Congress without a single Democratic vote, Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, was finishing up a fact-finding mission to […]

Courtesy newsin.asia Colombo, November 18 (newsin.asia): The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United Nations (UN) are going their separate ways on the Rohingya issue. While ASEAN is ignoring it for the sake of economic cooperation and internal consensus, the UN is taking it up seriously counting it as one of the greatest […]

By Andre Vltchek Courtesy Information Clearing House“ From Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Samarinda and Pontianak December 18, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – Several years ago, a prominent Indonesian businessman who now resides in Canada, insisted on meeting me in a back room of one of Jakarta’s posh restaurants. An avid reader of mine, he ‘had something urgent to […]

Courtesy BBC A police force and council “repeatedly sided with the abusers” of a man murdered after being wrongly accused of being paedophile, a report has found. The Safer Bristol Partnership (SBP) found a “collective failure” by Avon and Somerset Police and Bristol City Council in the case of Bijan Ebrahimi. The disabled Iranian refugee […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island December 10, 2017, 12:00 pm US President Donald Trump has demonstrated that he is capable of doing with his restless tongue what his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un, or ‘Rocket Man’, is threatening to do with nukes—wreaking destruction. His decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has plunged the entire […]

Top Russian Journalist Kiselyov Warns About Monsanto pesticide. It’s a colossal corruption scandal, which the European Union prefers to hush up. Probably, for corruption reasons as well. On Monday, an EU ad hoc appeal committee voted to extend the license allowing farmers to use a fertilizer called glyphosate. https://youtu.be/cItuOUp15Yw

Courtesy RT America’s richest one percent own a whopping 40 percent of the country’s wealth, a new study has revealed. The finding marks a widening gap between rich and poor in the United States. The paper, written by economist Edward N. Wolff, used data from the federal Survey of Consumer Finances. The data showed that the wealth owned […]

By Global Research News This article was first published by Global Research in November 2014. Today Libya as a Nation State has been destroyed by US-NATO. What do you think of when you hear the name Colonel Gaddafi? Tyrant? Dictator? Terrorist? Well, a national citizen of Libya may disagree but we want you to decide. For 41 years […]

The unprecedented rain and cyclone has pushed the southern part of Kerala into disarray as at least four people have lost their lives in three different incidents. Late night the slight depression over Sri Lanka gained strength making favourable conditions for a cyclone. By early morning on Thursday weather departments officially declared the depression as Ockhi cyclone […]

Ms. Mayawati (BSP National President, MP (Rajya Sabha & former Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh) (1) BJP since the time of its old form ‘Bharatiya Jan Sangh’ has been a party working with a mindset antagonistic to particularly depressed SC/STs, backwards, Muslims and the poor, workers anf farmers etc., of the Sarvasamaj (all sections of the society}. […]

Asia Pacific The idea is particularly contentious given the sensitivity of the issue in Myanmar. The widespread perception that the Rohingya population is mushrooming is a key source of the tensions that have spiralled in recent months. PALONGKHALI, Bangladesh: Bangladesh is planning to introduce voluntary sterilisation in its overcrowded Rohingya camps, where nearly a million […]

somapala Senarath  Ex-international cricket umpire Darrell Hair has been sentenced to an 18-month good behaviour bond over stealing money from his employer. Hair, who made headlines for calling a number of no-balls on Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan during the 1995 Boxing Day Test, pleaded guilty to a single charge of embezzlement and one charge of […]

Courtesy Focus Taiwan News Channel Taipei, Oct. 13 (CNA) Sri Lankan police have apprehended two of the five suspects allegedly involved in the hacking of US$60 million from Taiwan’s Far Eastern International Bank earlier this month, according to an update from the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Friday. CIB section chief Chiu Shao-chou (邱紹洲) told […]

By Jacob G. Hornberger Courtesy Information Clearing House”  October 03, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – On July 21, 1821, John Quincy Adams, who would go on to become the sixth president of the United States, warned that if America were ever to abandon its founding principle of non-interventionism in foreign affairs, she might well become the dictatress […]

By John Pilger Courtesy “Information Clearing House“ October 06, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in the main entrance.  The world’s third biggest arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, supplier to Saudi Arabia, was promoting its guns, bombs, missiles, naval […]

Muscat Daily staff writer October 04, 2017 Muscat – The horrified parents of Class 11 students of Sri Lankan School Muscat have called for the strictest possible action against a teacher at the school after she strip-searched a student who was accused of stealing money”. The teacher, who is said to be responsible for handling disciplinary […]