Dictatorship:- When People fear the Rulers. Democracy/Islamocracy:- When Rulers fear the people. Bakeer Markar (former Speaker of Sri Lanka’s  Parliament  ) Memorial Lecture by Senior Journalist and Author Latheef  Farook on Thursday 12 May 2011 at  the All Ceylon Union of Muslim League Youth Fronts at KG 7,Elvitigala Flats. Colombo-8 Political uprising sweeping Middle East and North Africa has taken …

Arms traders (merchants of death), oil tycoons and all other businessmen are ready with their bags to reconstruct Libya? By Latheef Farook The NATO military strikes on Libya, claimed to free Libyans from Gaddafi’s 42 year long dictatorship, were supposed to be “humanitarian intervention”. However more than three weeks later, killing scores of civilians, Gaddafi’s forces continue to advance forcing …

The international justice collapsed and the evil, war mongers, ravaging today’s world triumphed. This is how one could describe the plight of   South African Jewish Judge Robert Goldstone’s effort to retract his own, United Nations, Report on Israeli war crimes in Gaza during its December 2008-January 2009 war. His U Turn speaks volume for the extreme blackmail to which …

The unprecedented, peaceful and historic popular uprisings raging in the Middle East and North Africa remain clear indictment on the United States led Europe and their media   known for spreading lies. It was with the support and blessings of the west and its media that tyranny which caused untold to misery to millions in the region flourished for decades.   …

Referendum for separation in South Sudan Washington,London,Tel Aviv conspiracy to break up Sudan The weeklong referendum for the Christian South of predominantly Muslim Sudan to decide whether to establish a separate country or remain within a united country is likely to tear apart this largest country in Africa, with unpredictable consequences throughout the continent. Sudan is blessed with such fertile …

United Nations lost its soul and justice collapsed. At the turn of the last century Palestine, now turned into Israel, was part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. About 95 percent of the population in 1896 were Arabs who owned ninety percent of the land. It was such a peaceful place that there was hardly anyone spoke loud and using a …