Crimes of the West / INGO-NGO issues / Role of West & Alliances / Sri Lanka Politics / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th August 2019
No amount of promises to guard Sri Lanka’s sovereignty can hold water if at legislative & policy level changes are being drafted to suit a neo-liberal agenda that aspires to transfer all state assets...
International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India / West/Asian Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 9th August 2019
When US pivots to Asia as a strategy it means Americas political, diplomatic, trade, economic, cultural focus is all shifted to Asia, it also means, its associated alliances, partners, its covert/overt teams will all...
Role of India / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 4th August 2019
The prima facie case for India to interfere in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs is to cite that any instability happening in Sri Lanka becomes an automatic national security threat to India. While the...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics / West/Asian Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 12th June 2019
This article is based on 2 important articles by Mr. Neville Ladduwahetty and Ms. K S Gunasekera, a senior attorney at law. While Mr. Ladduwahetty highlights the need for Parliament to approve any agreement...
Colonial & Neo colonial / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of West & Alliances / Sri Lanka Politics / West/Asian Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 28th May 2019
Sri Lanka’s sovereignty & territorial integrity is being questioned by a secretive deal between US & the Ranil Wickremasinghe Government pertaining to the Millennium Challenge Corporation & an ‘economic corridor” that will create...
War on Terror / Separatism / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 2nd May 2019
All the lovely-dovey sentiments for peace just makes no sense if we are not realistic enough to accept some bare facts. In 1945 there was just one world conflict. Years later, 193 countries in...
Role of West & Alliances / Sri Lanka Politics / War on Terror / Separatism / West/Asian Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 28th April 2019
On 21st April 2019 Sri Lanka experienced 9 multiple terror attacks killing over 250 innocent people. The actions & reactions of the government is leaving citizens seriously anxious. The frightful prospect of a...
Ethno-Religious Issues / War on Terror / Separatism / West/Asian Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 25th April 2019
Sri Lanka before regime change had zero terror attacks since 2009, tragically just 4 years after a well-coordinated US-RAW-LTTE-TNA-JVP-UN-US-EU joint regime change over 350 dead on just one day with hundreds more injured or...
Lessons for Sri Lanka / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / West/Asian Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 21st January 2019
Kosovo was cut up from a balkanised Yugoslavia & given independence in 2008. Kosovo’s status is governed by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 which envisages self-government for Kosovo, but acknowledges the sovereignty and territorial...
Lessons for Sri Lanka / West/Asian Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 21st November 2018 · Last modified 8th January 2019
Governments come & governments go – that is clear evidence of a vibrant democracy. People go for elections – they bring governments to power & they can bring down governments too. We have seen...
