Though there are several peripheral issues the main issue, whipped up by the Opposition, is to change the presidential system and revert to the parliamentary system. This is another of way of the Opposition saying: Get rid of the Rajapakses. …

Craig Murray, British ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2002-2004, was fired when he revealed CIA rendition practices in Poland and Uzbekistan to UK leaders – and was branded a liar. The US torture report will hardly change the picture, he told …

Australian Green party Senator Lee Rhiannon glorified the LTTE Tamil terrorists at the Australian parliament to celebrate so the called “Tamil Terrorism” day falls on 27^th November 2014. LTTE is a world most ruthless Tamil terrorist organization killed many …

Why not them take to UNHRC?

The most remarkable thing about the US Senate Intelligence Committee Report is that it was published at all – a reproach incidentally, to the secrecy in which British politicians swathe MI6. Two of 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 …

The mainstream media professes to be unbiased and independent. When they are owned and run as corporates it is questionable how far they are ‘unbiased’ and ‘independent’ and how ethical they are in their conduct. The best way to showcase …

(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 …

Mr. Venkaiah Naidu, BJP Union Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs has declared that Sri Lanka should give equal rights to Tamils. Does this imply that Tamils do not enjoy equal rights, or perhaps that is the perception? If …

Holocaust, Crusades, Portuguese and Spanish inquisitions, Salem witch trials, Genocide of the native peoples of the Americas and Carribean, Genocide of Middle Eastern peoples, Genocide of Africans and Australian Aborginals, the Portuguese Inquisition in Goa and Sri Lanka the list …