Category: Colonial & Neo colonial

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Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / Sri Lanka Politics / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy

Why doesn’t IMF/World Bank propose pruning Sri Lanka’s Parliament & recovering from Big tax defaulters first!

  Was Sri Lanka’s economic crisis precipitated by an externally planned course to incrementally result in outcome? This is a question Sri Lankans need to ask themselves. How far have Sri Lanka’s elected leaders,...

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Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / INGO-NGO issues / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of West & Alliances / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy

Is Global South being robbed & corrupted & scorned for it?

    An interesting article by Caitlin Johnstone titled “Robbing the Global South, then scorning its poverty: notes from the edge of the narrative matrix” gives much food for thought. She quotes Michael Parenti...

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Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / INGO-NGO issues / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics

International land grab for national resources & implications for Sri Lanka

Land grabbing is taking place at national / regional & global scales. Large-scale land deals/transactions are taking place by transnational corporations or initiated by foreign governments. One of the major reasons for escalation of...

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Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics / West/Asian Politics

How far are Foreign Companies (MNCs) IMF/WB influencing Sri Lanka?

  It is estimated that 80,000 companies drive the 21st century economy. How far do they exert political & economic power over their own country-govts to influence foreign governments & how far does this...

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Colonial & Neo colonial / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam

3 Britishers debunk Tamil Homeland myth

In 1992 a paper was presented by a Working Group of the International Federation of Tamils in London. This paper cites a quote from the British Colonial Secretary in June 1799 to the UK...

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Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඉඩම් ප්‍රතිපත්ති-ඉඩම් ලියාපදිංචි කිරීමේ පටිපාටිය දේශපාලන පැවැත්ම සඳහා මිස ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඉඩම් හිමියන්ගේ ප්‍රයෝජනය සඳහා නොවේ

ජනතාව දේශපාලකයින් තෝරා ගන්නේ භූමිය සහ භූමියේ සම්පත් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමටයි. දේශපාලකයන් තේරී පත්වන්නේ ඉඩම් සහසම්පත් විදේශිකයන්ට හුවමාරු කිරීමට නොවේ පසුගිය වසර 70 පුරාවට විදේශ උපදේශකයින් විසින් හසුරුවා ගැනීමට ඉඩම් ස්වෛරීභාවය අන්සතු කර ඇත. ශ්‍රී...

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President Ranil Wickremasinghe – ask 225 MPs, Public Servants, Chairmans/DGs to present affidavits to confirm they are not dual citizens

      The 19a passed in April 2015 included clause that no MP could be a dual citizen. The then President & the Election Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya failed to ascertain whether nominees to...