By  Dr. Roslyn Fuller

A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul, June 23, 2014. (Reuters / Stringer)

Africa, Conflict…

There are time-tested ways to embarrass a country. Rape, torture, kidnapping, genocide are just a handful and with mainstream media, roped in journalists, puppet UN officials, money-hungry NGOs forming a team to project ‘allegations’ & ‘stories’ without evidence or proof, …

Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe

(Courtesy for Daily News)

The international media frenzy that followed the recent ethnic disturbances in Aluthgama and Dharga Town gave the distinct impression that the cabal of news editors of Western wire services based in New Delhi, …

India is likely to pursue a pragmatic approach toward Sri Lanka, one less shackled by Tamil Nadu politics.

Does Free Speech connote to mean that the media can say what they like, against whom they dislike and as often as they like generating an influence over those they capture across their media channels? In Sri Lanka we have …

Nigerian military leaders have been meeting with their counterparts from Sri Lanka (an island nation off the southern coast of India) to discuss how the Sri Lankan security forces defeated the LTTE Tamil terrorists there. The destruction of the LTTE …

leader subjected the pride of the mighty British Raj to ridicule it has to be Tony Blair. Why would any leader just to get a pat on the back by the US, ignore British intelligence advice and to go …

There are 64 registered political parties in Sri Lanka of this number 22 parties carry ethnic-based political names. 15 of these parties carry a separatist Tamil agenda. With the cleansing of LTTE as well as the current global proscription …

In the fifties the UNP was called Unge Nedeyange Pakshaya (The party of their relatives). J R Jayewardene in the seventies did not change it but replaced the Senanayake – Kotelawala family with Jayewardene – Wickremesinghe – Wijewardhane family. However, …

(Courtesy of The Island)

Recent incidents in Alutgama and Beruwala have highlighted once again the need to address issues relating to Law and Order in Sri Lanka. The strongly held belief is that the Law and Order situation could be …