Who is NED & what is its role in Sri Lanka
The term “democracy” has become a tool used to undermine democracy in the name of democracy by interfering into the internal affairs of countries & causing mayhem. What the CIA did back in the...
Sri Lanka Electoral Reforms: Right to Reject NOT Right to Recall
Right to Reject is an alternative to the Right to Recall that is currently being proposed. Right to Reject happens prior to candidates entering Parliament while Right to Recall is a system after...
Did Sri Lanka’s President ban chemical fertilizer on advice of Indian ecologist Vandana Shiva?
In April 2021, Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapakse banned chemical fertilizer. The decision was sudden & no one really knew who advised the President. It now emerges that the President was advised by...
Sri Lanka must enable a National Advisory Council under the OPA
Democracy is all about electing people to office as people’s representatives. However, people have to put up with them until their term is complete to change them. Either there has to be a mechanism...
Sri Lanka – People’s Protest – the planners behind the protests
In Sri Lanka a series of protests are taking place with central location set up in Galle Fact Green. The original grievances have got diluted in a plethora of other slogans automatically questioning a...
US ambassador Chung: If Capitol Hill rioters are to face sedition charges – what about July9 in Sri Lanka?
An 11 member far-right militia group “Oath Keepers” are charged with seditious conspiracy for January 2021 while another group was also charged in January 2022 attacks on the US Capitol. More than 725...
Future of a post-Rajapakse Sri Lanka
13th July 2022 will be remembered as the day an elected President resigned becoming the only President since 1978 to do so. He was the 7th President of Sri Lanka but one who...
Sri Lanka’s Crisis: Scenarios & Options
The political system has collapsed. Mob rule has taken over. Where lies the People’s mandate? Is Sri Lanka a functioning democracy or is life to function as per protests, protestors & their demands? What...
Sri Lanka’s Political Crisis: Name 29 Professionals to be included into National List
We are in the midst of a political crisis emerging out of an economic crisis. People’s emotions are high as a result of the sufferings they have to undergo affecting their homes &...
Why isn’t the COPE-COPA grilling the Politicians?
The public are listening with interest & shock to the questions and answers emerging from the COPE sessions. COPE & COPA are regarded as the Parliamentary WatchDog. Members of Parliament sitting on both...
