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blog: https:\/\/eesrilanka.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Before you study the economics, study the economists!<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

e-Con e-News 10-16 May 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018In Thailand, the Philippines, Bangladesh & Australia\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the first since the war to enter key sowing periods, farmers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

are choosing to skip or reduce planting, or cut fertilizer use,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

which will lower yield\u2026 In June, India & Brazil<\/strong>, two of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

world\u2019s biggest agricultural producers, will ramp up orders<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for urea<\/strong>. If, by then, vessels carrying urea are not sailing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

there will be \u2018significant yield loss<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 across many countries.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 see ee Agriculture<\/em><\/strong>, US war is crushing Asia\u2019s farmers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The USA extends its toxic tentacles <\/strong>far beyond South and East Asia, and is disrupting everybody else\u2019s agricultural cycles. This is primarily due to the US war & blockade of West Asia & East Africa. They are hindering Sri Lanka\u2019s access to fuels & related chemicals \u2013 which we curiously have to obtain via Singapore, which is far to the east of us! Sri Lanka is even prevented from buying fuel directly from Russia. \u2018The Lanka Indian Oil Co (LIOC) should be renamed the Lanka Indian Russian Oil Co (LIROC)\u2019, as one wag quips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Having long promoted the Ford & Rockefeller Foundations\u2019 \u2018Green Revolution\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>from the 1960s, accentuating transnational import-export agriculture (to oppose \u2018Red Revolution\u2019 in the countryside), with crops & cultivators becoming addicted to chemicals, the USA is now blocking access to these fertilizers & pesticides from West Asia. Their recent moves here suggest they aim to turn SL agriculture & diets into an appendage of a bloated US agribusiness.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2018On 28 April 2026, the commander of US Forces in Korea,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General Xavier Brunson told the Japan Times<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington is building a \u2018kill web<\/em><\/strong>\u2018 \u2013 a networked<\/p>\n\n\n\n

system fusing S. Korea, Japan & the Philippines into a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

single architecture against China, Russia & North Korea.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2019 \u2013 Tings Chak, ee<\/em><\/strong> Random Notes<\/em><\/strong>, Hands off Asia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The English media, however, are still busy cooing love songs to US President D Trump<\/strong>\u2019s supposedly suave & rant-free visit to the People\u2019s Republic of China. However, he did not get his bragged-about hug from President Xi, and his corporate escorts, at least 20 top CEOs, also returned home, empty-handed\u2026. The media pointedly ignore how the visit began in the wake of the US war games<\/strong> south of China in the Philippines. The largest US military exercises in the Philippines, Balikatan 2026<\/em>, hosted 17,000 foreign troops from 7 nations<\/strong> including Canada, Australia, France, New Zealand, & Japan. Japan<\/strong> has also now stationed anti-ship missiles there, and the USA has set up a new fuel depot. The Philippines, which the USA has brutally colonized for over 125 years, has also \u2018granted\u2019 4,000 acres for a US-controlled high-tech zone \u2013 the Pax Silica Initiative<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 operating under US common law and granted diplomatic immunity, on a lease renewable for 99 years<\/strong>. Let us see\u2026 next week, Russian President V Putin goes to Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Prolonging its brutal war (via Israel) on Lebanon, the USA is also having its ally England send a warship HMS Dragon<\/em>, an aerial war destroyer, into the eastern Indian Ocean. It was sent from the eastern Mediterranean to join another US ally (supposedly coy<\/em>) France\u2019s deployment of its \u2018carrier strike group\u2019 to the southern Red Sea, to \u2018restore confidence<\/em><\/strong> in the trade route\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North and west of us, India is tight hugging onto the USA\u2019s killer poodles, Israel & the UAE. <\/strong>The UAE, that sand-dusted English colony, recently disrupted both OPEC & BRICS, and is waging war on the Sudan. may also explain India\u2019s urgent demand to build their Hanuman Bridge<\/em><\/strong> to link Tamilnadu with Sri Lanka (High Commissioner Jha: \u2018but let me say clearly: the time for wavering is over.\u2019)  The timing is no coincidence. This coming week will see 17 years since the end of a terrorist war funded & fanned by India, and they seek to dampen any triumphalism. Their promotion of the terrorist war was also claimed as being due to then-Indian-PM Indira Gandhi\u2019s ire at then-Lankan-President JR Jayewardene offering Trincomalee to the US to pre-empt India grabbing hold of it. Perhaps the USA too plots to send a peacekeeping<\/em> (or peace-killing) force into Sri Lanka\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The main opposition party, SJB, frantically signaling Left<\/em> (with the SJB leader wailing the IMF won\u2019t speak to him, as if he\u2019s offered us any clear alternative vision) is perhaps a prelude to their actual & eventual turning to the Right<\/em>, to join up on their ancestral couch beside the now almost defunct UNP, whose policies are being tailed by the ruling NPP. The SJB & UNP united might make for a mighty reunion. The SJB leader\u2019s father apparently drove the English envoy & Indian army out of Sri Lanka and paid the ultimate price for such hubris\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still, it is somewhat cute<\/em> to see the NPP President & PM thrill at the purported entry of the white German-South-African<\/strong> & now US citizen Peter Thiel\u2019s PayPal<\/em><\/strong>, an online payment system, into Sri Lanka, \u2018after over a decade of discussions\u2019. Thiel is the owner of the US War Department\u2019s spinoff Palantir<\/em><\/strong>, which claims to monitor all internet traffic & helps physically (kinetically!<\/em>) target their enemies. Thiel is also a big donor to the US President & Vice President\u2019s electoral coffers. PayPal\u2019s entry comes (serendipitously!<\/em>) right after major cyber swindles at the Treasury & the privatized NDB (whose owners include the EPF, the workers\u2019 pension fund, which has failed to invest in industrially upskilling workers). What can Palantir<\/em> tell us about these recent swindles? If their god doesn\u2019t know, the US War Department would. Palantir <\/em>is also linked to France\u2019s security agencies & Airbus! PayPal indeed!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monkey, tails, tales & bridges, stretch out & over in different avatara\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 Imperialism has long been seeking to also cut Sri Lanka off from China. Yet they are not just targeting Sri Lanka, but all of Asia, south, east, central, north & west, using not just warfare but also lawfare, sanctions & tariffs. This is not due to the lunacy of a single white man. Their aims have the backing of the largest corporations in the world \u2013 multinational corporations (MNCs), wealthier than most countries. Welcome to<\/strong> HyperImperialism<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018It is the imperialism of a drowning billionaire who firmly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

believes he ought to be back on his yacht. It flexes the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

muscles of power that are still strong \u2013 the military.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Tricontinental Institute, ee Focus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This ee Focus <\/em><\/strong>begins to serialize a profound study by the Tricontinental Research Institute, about the decline of traditional imperialist hegemony & the \u2018kinetic\u2019 <\/em>perils arising from its decay. (Kinetic<\/em><\/strong> is the latest euphemism<\/strong> for direct military<\/strong> combat, first popularized by the US government during their wars on Iraq & Afghanistan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018<\/em>Hegemony is historically lost in 3 stages:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

production, finance, & military<\/em>\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Tricontinental, ee Focus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tricontinental\u2019s research provides a detailed assessment of the decline of imperialist economies, the economic advances made by socialist countries, the resistance movements<\/strong> of the last decades, the consequent repression & what needs to be done. From the open military & economic subordination of Europe to extending US-led NATO war on Russia, to US funding & arming of the Israeli genocide in Palestine & Lebanon, the study surveys the plans & attempts to tame resistance, as well as the limitations of imperialist reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018S<\/em>ocialism sounds good on paper, but it has never worked in practice<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If socialism is dismissed not because it is undesirable but because it<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

is supposedly impractical<\/em><\/strong>, then the question is no longer philosophical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It becomes concrete<\/strong>. What does it mean for a system to work in practice?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Socialism is dead.\u2019 \u2018Marx was an impractical dreamer\u2026Engels was a capitalist\u2026Lenin recanted on his deathbed, & became a Catholic<\/em>\u2026Stalin: an oriental despot\u2026 Mao: a peasant rube.\u2019<\/em>  Countries such as the USSR, China, DPRK, Cuba, Vietnam<\/strong>, who have openly declared they are socialist, \u2018don\u2019t really know about true socialism<\/em>.\u2019 Such are the hourly calumnies showered on the world by the English media. Real socialism <\/em><\/strong>exists only within the skulls of the fringiest sect or tenured scholar or glossy magazine with radical titling, in London or New York. Such are the perverse prevarications, the English media & their foghorns scream out, in their shrillest falsettos when daily conversations or choreographed discussions or academic lectures turn to \u2018socialism\u2019. Kapone (no relation to Chicago Al) challenges what has been fabricated into \u2018common sense\u2019. He guides us, through socialism as it has actually been practised in the 20th<\/sup> century to this day, dispensing with the numerous euphemisms, charting its ups & downs, advances & retreats, is failures & achievements. (see ee Focus<\/em><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plantation system produced the raw materials<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 sugar, cotton, tobacco \u2013 that fed industrial<\/p>\n\n\n\n

capitalism. Banks financed it. Insurance companies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

secured it. States protected it. The market, we are told,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

is neutral<\/em>. But here the market is soaked in blood<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kapone starts with the economics of transformation, how socialist countries have challenged capitalist impoverishment and actually extended human life, advancing agriculture and innovating modern industry despite invasions, and world wars: the USSR<\/strong> turned into one of the fastest-growing economies of the 20th<\/sup> century. China<\/strong> overturned warlordism & colonial domination into building the 2nd<\/sup>-largest economy in the world. Cuba<\/strong>, from slavery & gangsterism, to a model of education & healthcare for all midst a crippling & tightening US siege & blockade. Vietnam<\/strong> defeated repeated invasions & endured destruction. Korea<\/strong> with mass resistance challenged genocidal wars that divided their country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kwame Nkrumah<\/strong> argued that political independence<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

without economic control<\/em><\/strong> produces neocolonialism<\/em>, where<\/p>\n\n\n\n

formal democracy exists but real power remains external.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 Sri Lanka is being crashed headlong into an 18th<\/sup> IMF program<\/strong> (some say it\u2019s the 19th<\/sup> loansharking, if we add the post-cyclone loans). After the failure to fulfil any electoral promises to resurrect the economy, the latest US war has ensured none of their severe demands (privatizing national resources & making workers even more insecure, their main demands) can be fulfilled without sending the economy truly over the edge. The Central Bank governor who went into hiding after the recent Treasury & NDB swindles, is back in the news headlines, all water pistols (to make us cry) & imported cylinders firing (to use up some fuel), making all kinds of contradictory pronouncements. We get the impression it is some kind of swansong before he is kicked upstairs & overseas, for his slavish devotion to imperial dictate, into some stipendiary retirement farm tended by the IMF, World Bank or ADB. His gems this week include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018I want to make it very clear. CBSL would not promote<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

growth or productivity of the economy\u2019<\/em> \u2013 CBSL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe (ee <\/em><\/strong>Quotes<\/em><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Central Bank keeps market<\/p>\n\n\n\n

guessing on next rate move\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 see ee Economists<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018<\/strong>Sri Lanka has to compromise growth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if it chooses lower inflation target\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 CBSL <\/strong>Governor (see ee Economists<\/em><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018CBSL Chief Explains Slow but<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steady Economic Comeback\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 see ee Economists<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Lanka Rupee depreciation driven<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by global trends, CBSL governor claims\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 see ee Economists<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018As the \u2018Banker to the Government,\u2019 the CBSL\u2019s Chief<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accounting Department merely executes orders.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013<\/em>CB Governor, ee Security<\/em><\/strong>, CBSL Not Responsible<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for verifying debt payment instructions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Gov Nandalal Weerasinghe says CBSL acts as<\/p>\n\n\n\n

banker to Govt & executes payment instructions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

as directed.\u2019 \u2013 ee Security<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018While the CBSL told CoPF that no unusual activity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

had been detected during the period of the fraud, questions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

have intensified after NDB\u2019s audited 2025 accounts showed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a sharp rise in receivables linked to CEFT transactions to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rs12.2bn from Rs3.1bn a year earlier, with analysts arguing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

that the increase should have triggered scrutiny from<\/p>\n\n\n\n

management, auditors, & regulators\u2019 \u2013 ee Security<\/strong><\/em>, CBSL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

distances supervisory role from Treasury & NDB scams<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Governments can & do change people\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

behaviour by changing the policy incentives.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 see Srimal Abeyratne (ee Economists<\/em><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 <\/strong>The rains have returned & people are being flooded out. Nothing new. Soon the media will be full of drought stories again. In between watery inundation & scorching depredations, the traders, corporations & the merchant media will be giving each other & themselves awards. Meanwhile, we are being slowly introduced to Weerasinghe\u2019s up & coming replacement, a clone actually: Central Bank Deputy Governor Chandranath Amarasekara. This DG, just this week, lectured the Gamani Corea Foundation & the Economic Association (SLEA), parroting the US Treasury-IMF\u2019s stale shibboleths, promoting his eminent suitability, and then declared, \u2018We have lived beyond our means for decades<\/em>\u2019 (see ee Quotes<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Really?<\/em> Who exactly has lived beyond their means?<\/strong> Amarasekara\u2019s pronouncements recalls the fast-going obsolescent Indrajith Coomaraswamy, another ex-CB governor (& now an imported cement company board director), who claims Sri Lanka has been ruled by \u2018populism<\/em>\u2019. Was continuing the import-export plantation economy post-1948, due to populism? These officials & economists are trapped between lobbing severe threats at the people, and conjuring optimism for their financial overlords. As for this business of \u2018growth<\/em>\u2019, which is measured by dubious indices such as GDP & average per-capita income, in countries where less than 10% of the population own over 80% of its assets, the Indian economist Prabhat Patnaik declares:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The average real income<\/strong> of the working people,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

who constitute 80-90% of the population, would be<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a better index than the average real income of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

entire population.\u2019 (see ee Economists<\/em><\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Real Economic Development?)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 SBD de Silva<\/strong> provides the answers to exactly who has \u2018lived beyond their means\u2019 in Sri Lanka, and for more than a few \u2018decades\u2019. Also, last week saw a university professor & Sunday Times<\/em> economist (who also monotonously repeats all the US Treasury tropes) lament the takeover of the \u2018champagne\u2019 of tea cultivation by \u2018potato curry\u2019 \u2013 that is, cultivators (& middlemen) are finding it more profitable to grow potatoes (which he blames on unfair protective tariffs) than \u2018beautiful tea\u2019 (both of which have caused immense erosion). SBD, however, succinctly eviscerated the inefficiency of the plantation oligarchy that still dominates us (see ee Focus<\/em><\/strong>). A<\/strong>bsentee ownership<\/strong>, subordinat<\/strong>ed <\/strong>to merchant capital<\/strong>, & the rule of their local representatives in the agency houses, led to \u2018heavy overhead expenses\u2019 due to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018I<\/strong>nflated prices<\/strong> payable by the plantations for materials & inputs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

supplied by the agency \u2013 fertilizer, agricultural implements, tea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

chests etc \u2013 &\u2026 payments to persons<\/strong> in an \u2018elaborate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

hierarchy<\/strong>\u2018 drawing salaries, commissions & fees\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This wasteful overhead expenditure, and the privileges afforded only to European owners & officials, affected the scale & relations of production and demanded large-scale plantations, which have had no real advantage over small-holder agriculture. ee<\/em><\/strong> begins Chapter 10 of SBD\u2019s classic The Political Economy of Underdevelopment<\/em>, which exposes the inefficiency of such plantations<\/strong>. The much-advertized imagery about plantations is monopolized by rolling hills of undulating green, with happy hooded women plucking leaves by hand, disabused of mechanization for over 150 years. de Silva showed how plantations cannot be considered modern farming, tracing its origins to the use of enslaved labor on extremely intensive tobacco cultivation in the USA, as well as the high freight rates & trade monopolies due to the colonial relationship with England. He described the transfer of the plantation belt from the northern to the southern USA, and subsequent effects of their wars.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 Last week \u2018caught us napping\u2019, when the US platform WordPress<\/em> (WP<\/em><\/strong>) all of a sudden \u2018suspended\u2019 e-Con e-News<\/em>, blocking our regular online presence, a few seconds after the latest stories were posted. WP<\/em> is the platform \u2018hosting\u2019 ee<\/em><\/strong>, and in perhaps one keystroke, disrupted worldwide access to our work. Regular readers may have been confused, when they were greeted by WP<\/em>\u2019s abrupt declaration:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018eesrilanka.wordpress.com is no longer available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blog has been archived or suspended in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

accordance with our Terms of Service.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Today is ee<\/em>\u2019s 422nd<\/sup> issue<\/strong>, in its almost 8th<\/sup> year<\/strong> as an unfunded weekly blog. ee<\/em><\/strong> was launched to spread the ideas of our teacher, the economist SBD de Silva<\/strong>. He taught us, though not in any formal institution, what most are paid not<\/em> to teach \u2013 about industrial literacy & practice, with examples from all around the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     So last week we certainly were indeed somewhat taken aback, perhaps grown too comfortable. Friends have always warned us that the invisible US owners of this \u2018free\u2019 service, could at any time deny access to our own work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Luckily, Lankaweb News & Forum<\/em> (lankaweb.com) carried the entire issue. We appreciate Lankaweb<\/em>\u2019s support!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Again, thanks to more tech-savvy friends, we did figure out how to ask the \u2018support document\u2019 WP<\/em> offers with the \u2018suspension\u2019, why they did such a reprehensible thing? Their feedback algorithm <\/em>was the only means they offered. We filled out the requisite letter of appeal. It sounded like shouting into an empty well, and hearing only your echo. Or dropping a stone & not hearing even it hit any surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Then again, WordPress.com<\/em> is a very large US corporation, with perhaps millions of users, and may not deign it necessary to respond individually to a relatively miniscule publication in a once-far-off ocean. Still, it seemed they felt sufficiently disaffected to cut us off pronto, minus any right to answer for their actions. WP<\/em> is owned & operated by Automattic, \u2018a for-profit company\u2019 founded by Matt Mullenweg, a co-owner of the \u2018open-source\u2019 WordPress software. Automattic also owns other major web properties, including WooCommerce, Jetpack, Tumblr, Gravatar, WordPress VIP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Finally, 2 days later WordPress<\/em> \u2018reinstated\u2019 ee<\/em><\/strong>. WP claimed that our site had been \u2018flagged\u2019 by their \u2018automated anti-spam controls\u2019. \u2018We have reviewed your site & have removed the suspension notice\u2026 We apologize for this error & any inconvenience it may have caused.\u2019 That\u2019s it. No other reasons have been given & we have not pursued the matter further. ee <\/em><\/strong>is also seeking alternate platforms, so as to be less subject to the whimsies of any decadent & dying hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     And yet, like readers, we did wonder what on earth might have \u2018triggered\u2019 their \u2018controls\u2019? While we will not change our ideas, we are left with many imaginings & the usual chill. ee<\/em><\/strong> has published over 400 entries over 8 years. The last ee<\/em><\/strong> issue, that perhaps triggered their \u2018controls\u2019, was about who exactly rules the USA, even as it seeks to further dominate Sri Lanka. Please check it out (ee<\/em><\/strong> 09 May 2026). It\u2019s intriguing, what exactly might \u2018trigger\u2019 such sensitive powers. Perhaps, the USA wishes to tell us that its instruments already control Sri Lanka?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     We are fully aware that the USA seeks to keep control of the vast internet highways, just as it seeks to control the waterways that surround us. They claim to have originated the internet (not true, ask socialist Chile of pre-1974). They perhaps wish to treat this \u2018electronic highway\u2019 as their own, much like the English claimed the \u2018Kandy Road\u2019 as theirs. The \u2018Kandy Road\u2019 was actually built by enslaved & unfree labor to invade the highlands, and push the English import-export plantation-to-port swindle. Edward Barnes, the English colonial governor in Ceylon, said he had roads built to \u2018destroy the confidence of the people<\/strong>\u2019 from the protection afforded by natural terrain<\/strong>. Though of course the Kandy Road existed long before the English & other invaders arrived, and will continue long after them<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Like the Kandy Road, the internet too was built by the unpaid & underpaid labor of numerous hands & heads. The internet\u2019s cables slither through & around us and under our seas, and ee<\/em><\/strong> has sought to use this road, to do something different from what the English & the USA have intended: We wish to build up our people\u2019s own confidence and we have used the medium as a carriageway to promote a real economy, a modern industrial (machine-making-machine) society. Of course, such a machine-building economy will not be accomplished overnight. Yet, even this possibility has never been allowed us by imperialist powers, so it will only be possible if we focus on our own country\u2019s needs at all times, and work towards such changes, with such specific goals in mind at every single step. This is essential to the country\u2019s self-sufficiency & security, if it is to remain an independent polity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     ee<\/em><\/strong> has sought to promote real literacy \u2013 economic & historical literacy, including an industrial knowhow \u2013 not the type of innumerate illiteracy that receives awards for disparaging a people or a nation best \u2013 a people & a nation who have been withstanding a siege of over 500 years. We have sought to spark a national conversation about industrialization, fully aware that a merchant & moneylender & multinational corporation-dominated media seeks to sabotage such endeavours, and maintain the colonial status-quo, which is now perpetuated by the USA, England, the EU, India, & their local \u2018chamber\u2019 orchestras & thinktanks, etc. As our ee<\/em><\/strong> masthead declares: \u2018Before you study the economics, study the economists<\/em><\/strong>.\u2019 Please keep supporting a media excavator & forensic news analyses that go beyond the news, looking at why certain (mostly fake or distorted) news is being reported, & what is mostly not narrated to us in this world\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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