INVESTIGATE USAID involvement in Sri Lanka
The scale of corruption in the US by USAID wasting public funds for nefarious activities across the world has to be investigated & held to account. $15m for condoms to the Taliban...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 7th February 2025
The scale of corruption in the US by USAID wasting public funds for nefarious activities across the world has to be investigated & held to account. $15m for condoms to the Taliban...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / LTTE Diaspora / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 21st December 2024
We often hear Indian leaders pressurizing Sri Lankan leaders that Sri Lanka’s foreign policy must ensure the security interests of India. At no point in time has Sri Lanka ever thought or even planned...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related
by Shenali Waduge · Published 3rd December 2024
Bandaranaike – Chelvanayakam Pact, July 1957 Part A Representatives of the Federal Party had a series of discussions with the Prime Minister in an effort to resolve the differences of opinion that had been...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 18th November 2024
In times where people’s values, integrity, ethics are waning, it is for those who hold the same traits highly to appreciate personalities that can never be replaced. One such selfless person is Mr....
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties
by Shenali Waduge · Published 17th November 2024
Parliamentary elections in recent years had never seen what resulted in nothing short of a tsunami on 14 November 2024. The silver lining was that virtually all of the old brigade who had entered...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of Media / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 29th October 2024 · Last modified 30th October 2024
Now that MP Udaya Gammanpila has made public the Imam Committee Report, it is poignant to return to September 2023, when Channel 4 first broadcasted its program. at 1105p.m. (SL time 0335a.m.). The Cardinal...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related
by Shenali Waduge · Published 20th October 2024
The Upcountry Charter Several questions emerge as a result of the Extraordinary Gazette 2403/28 published on 25 September 2024 – just days after the appointment of a new President. Why an “Extraordinary Gazette”...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 11th October 2024
If there is a constitutional provision claiming no dual citizens / foreign citizens can sit in Parliament, how is this provision to be honored or checked? The best & only way is for...
Constitution Related / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 18th August 2024
Unbeknown to the electorate is the news circulating across social media regarding a major inexcusable faux pas by both the so-called independent Election Commission & the lawyers & secretary of the President. The issue...
Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 16th June 2024
Having claimed to be a woman, male Will Thomas became a transgender Lia Thomas and went on to compete in the women’s swimming events & won the women’s NCAA college swimming title in 2022...