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Monthly Archives: June 2013
In Rajapaksa Sri Lanka, anything which does not challenge familial rule is good and permissible
“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know”- Aldous Huxely (Ends and Means)
Almost 60 fishermen died at sea, because the authorities failed to warn about an impending storm.
No one accepted responsibility, no one apologised and no one resigned.
A Deputy Inspector General of Police was arrested for abducting and murdering a […]
Human Rights Defender Nimalka Fernando harassed, heckled and threatened by Sri Lankan Embassy officials in Japan
THE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT AGAINST ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AND RACISM (IMADR) Japan has condemned
roundly the harassment of a Sri Lankan Human Rights Defender Dr. Nimalka Fernando by Sri Lankan Embassy staff in Tokyo. Fernando was heckled and interrupted during a seminar lecture delivered by her . Embassy staff also followed her and tried to intimidate and threaten […]
Lester James Peiris- a cultural icon beyond compare
It is indeed a great privilege to pen some thoughts and emotions that ran through my mind on one of the momentous occasions which Lester James Peiris and his wife Sumithra commemorate yearly. Although I am no film critic in the strict sense of the word but I dare say that I am a devoted […]
Read MoreThe gap between the Sinhalese and Tamils seems unbridgeable, and sadly so…
“Collective”- Bauddha Jathika Balavegaya (BJB) reborn!
“I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.” — Leo Tolstoy
Ghosts from fifty five-years ago
The ghosts of the past, not from very distant one but from an era of exactly fifty five years ago, are invading our confused and troubled […]
Sri Lanka: Will the people have the balls to resist the insidious media ethics law
“That is a slave’s lot – not to be able to speak one’s mind” — Euripides (Ion)
In Turkey, an attempt to uproot a public park and build a shopping mall ignited a tidal-wave of protests which is yet to abate.
No balls to stand up an condemn
In Saudi Arabia, innumerable Islamic sites are being annihilated in […]
ACLU sues over NSA surveillance program
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. government surveillance program that collects the telephone records of millions of Americans from U.S. telecommunications companies.
It is the first substantive lawsuit following reports in The Washington Post and the Guardian last week that detailed two vast surveillance programs run by […]
Ron Paul: Fear Snowden could be target of drone assassination by Obama administration
Former GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul insisted on Tuesday that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is not a traitor, but he fears the U.S.
government may send drones or a cruise missile to kill the 29-year-old, who has fled the United States.
“I don’t think for a minute that he’s a traitor,” Paul told Fox Business’ Melissa Francis.
“Everybody’s […]
Thirteenth Amendment changes: More at stake for Rajapaksa government than countering terrorism
The government’s ongoing bid to seek changes to the 13th Amendment prior to holding elections to the Northern Provincial Council has suffered a reversal with the refusal of some of the government’s coalition partners to go along with it. This is likely to be a temporary reversal. The ethnic
minority political parties that are part of […]
Those in the Opposition:stop dreaming and go back to the drawing board…
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
The pillar of success?
With the total flop of the one-day Island-wide strike of May 21, 2013, organized by the so-called joint-Opposition, the air went out of the balloon,
deflating the huge imaginary bubble that the Opposition had been blowing. […]
Media ethics and reality control in Sri Lanka: “All of us always approve what the Führer does”
“Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government”
(US Supreme Court on Pentagon Papers)
If the Rajapaksas succeed in turning their ‘media ethics proposal’ into law, Sri Lanka will have her very own Minitrue (Ministry of Truth). And the role of Lankan media will be redefined, from ‘watchdogs of democracy’ to ‘lapdogs of […]
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Media ethics and reality control in Sri Lanka: “All of us always approve what the Führer does”
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