By Janaka Perera

One of the major issues which have caused concern to Sri Lanka’s patriots is whether the country will be unitary or united in the event the Opposition’s common candidate Maithripala Sirisena wins. It is obvious that the …

(Courtesy of The island)

US plays the same role now with Mithreepala

By Shamindra Ferdinando

The then Chief of Defence Staff General Sarath Fonseka claimed that he didn’t want to lose his popularity, within 24 hours, by seeking a …

By Dayan Jayatilleka

 Role of the JHU

“I hate the goddamn system! But until someone comes along with changes that make sense, I’ll stick with it” – Clint Eastwood as “Dirty Harry” Callaghan, in ‘Magnum Force’ (1973)

Those who …

(Courtesy of Eurasia Review)

By  C. Raja Mohan

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi winds down an intensive phase of foreign policy activism, one surprising feature of his diplomacy has been the frequent evocation of Buddhism. In his outreach to leaders …

(Courtesy of Eurasia Review)

Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan

Will there be a Tamil boycott of Sri Lanka elections? Last week, in an unexpected move, Maithripala Sirisena, General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, was declared the common opposition candidate …

At the signing ceremony of the common presidential candidate by all political parties it was alarmed at the expression of former President Ms. Chandrika Kumaranatunge Bandaranayake used at the meeting for a “United Sri Lanka”; “Eksath” (United) but not an …

In May 1993 UN’s 1^st war crimes court and 1^st tribunal since the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals was created by the UN Security Council in accordance with chapter VII of the UN Charter. When ICTY officially shuts down …

Canada’s public safety minister said he was “shocked and appalled” after a New Democratic Party MP rose in the House of Commons to commemorate Tamil Heroes Day, which honours fallen LTTE Tamil terrorists. Steven Blaney urged Rathika Sitsabaiesan, a Sri …

In Monsoon, by Robert Kaplan, senior adviser to American foreign policy makers, in the chapter on SL, Prabhakaran was deliberately referred to as Roman Catholic not once but three times. That was a deliberate act of disinformation – he …

(Courtesy of  Asian Tribune)

The pieces behind the nomination of Maitripala Sirisena as the Joint Opposition presidential candidate are slowly moving to form a larger scenario pointing in the direction of an invisible hand of external maneuvering, a possible covert …