Category: Crimes of the West

Sri Lanka: Stop living off loans – Austerity for Rich & Stimulus for Middle Class & Poor 0

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

Sri Lanka: Stop living off loans – Austerity for Rich & Stimulus for Middle Class & Poor

There are some harsh realities that Sri Lankans need to accept. We have enjoyed nominal independence since 1948 and artificially celebrate that every year. We ignore that we became a republic only in 1972....

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Central Bank of Sri Lanka & IMF Bail Out : Is their priority to pay off creditors & put Sri Lankans in further debt?

What has Sri Lanka’s Central Bank offered the Government by way of a fiscal national policy solution having proudly declared Sri Lanka bankrupt & in default without paying $78m matured sovereign bond to China...

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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 / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / Role of Media / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy

How can George Bush Jnr just laugh at Iraq war & now laugh at Ukraine!

  “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of IRAQ … I mean of the Ukraine ….Iraq too, anyway … (he laughs) …I’am 75 (audience laughs) …”. The...