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USAID’s ongoing invasion of SL civil society: new megabucks “democracy” programs  Despite widespread speculation that the Trump administration will scrub democracy promotion from US foreign policy  the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Colombo is plowing ahead with..

Courtesy of The Island  This is a response to the letter to the Editor published in the Opinion page of The Island of August 22, 2017 titled New constitution a must . I do not agree with the opening statement of..

An unexpected turn of events gives hope that even after over 500 years the crimes committed by European explorers and the Church will be exposed and lead to an overdue accountability, apology & compensation. As Confederate Statues are being brought..

Former Army Commander Field Marshal and Minister Sarath Fonseka, has done it again! He once got into trouble over what came to be dubbed the White Flag allegations against the then Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who, he said, had ordered..

Courtesy of The Island by M.L.Wickramasinghe There is a continuing and interesting dialogue on the Constitution. The majority of Sri Lankans is strongly apprehensive of federalism and believes that maintaining the status quo with regard to the current limits on..

By Rohana R. Wasala The United States State Department’s 2016 International Religious Freedom Report on Sri Lanka is replete with distortions of the factual situation in the country regarding religious freedom. This is my personal view as an ordinary Sri..

By Neville Ladduwahetty (Courtesy of The Island) A petition (SC SPL 03/2014) was filed in the Supreme Court claiming that the “aims” and “objects” of the Illankai Thamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) was to establish a separate state under terms of..

(Courtesy of Daily Mirror) The weekly evidence of the unprecedentedly dependent, servile character of the Yahapalana administration came in the form of a report in the prestigious Hindu by its smart, Colombo based correspondent Meera Srinivasan. Captioned ‘India keen to..

The real reason behind the lynching of Wijayadasa Rajapakshe   By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA (Courtesy of The Island)  The Working Committee of the UNP disgracefully passed a unanimous vote of no-confidence against Minister of Justice and Buddha Sasana Wijayadasa Rajapakshe…

By Abhijit Singh Sri Lanka’s pact with China for Hambanbota port may well be a case of strategic deception, and not just a political balancing act between India and China.  Late last month, Colombo inked a revised version of a..