Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 14th February 2020
MCC is one of the 3 pillars of US National Security Strategy initially rolled out in 2002 (Defense, Development & Diplomacy) ACSA and SOFA are clear US strategic military arrangements while MCC falls into...
Chartering Our Future / Role of India / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 4th February 2020
Nepal & Sri Lanka share similarities. Both countries have appointed teams to study MCC. MCC was signed by Nepal in 2017 – the state of MCC Sri Lanka has been kept a...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 2nd February 2020
The MCC is not just any ordinary agreement. It is an agreement that is signed between 2 Governments, passing 10 land registries to a newly created company called MCC Sri Lanka Pvt Ltd....
International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of West & Alliances / Sri Lanka Politics / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 2nd February 2020
The shift of balance from West to East is nothing anyone can deny except that it also means the challenges for the East are all the more overwhelming unless policy formulators derive ways...
UN & Sri Lanka / UN bias & corruption / UNHRC Resolutions / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 26th January 2020
An eye for an eye is the Abrahamic view of justice. 9/11 resulted in bombing, invading & occupying Afghanistan but Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11 but the invaders have remained in...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 17th December 2019
The Swiss has issued a strange statement criticizing Sri Lanka for the lack of due process. The truth is quite the opposite. It took a magistrate’s order to finally get the Swiss embassy to...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / INGO-NGO issues / UN & Sri Lanka / West/Asian Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 13th December 2019
Part of Sri Lanka’s problem has been not to challenge some of the lies being propagated by the power of funding sources both legitimate and illegitimate. There are plenty of diplomatic avenues to...
Crimes of the West / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 13th December 2019
The Swiss profited from Nazism; banking gold stolen by occupied nations and holocaust victims. When Hitler began his reign of terror the first thing the Swiss did was to pass laws to guarantee anonymity...
Crimes of the West / Role of West & Alliances / War on Terror / Separatism / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 11th December 2019
Gambia is a Muslim majority state and member of 57-OIC states. Gambia on behalf of OIC has taken Myanmar to the ICJ on charges of ‘genocide’. The more important question is why has Gambia...
International Issues / Role of West & Alliances / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 11th December 2019
The International Court of Justice was set up in 1946 to settle international disputes. ICJ is taking up a complaint made by little known Muslim majority Gambia on behalf of the 57 OIC...
