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Who said the Cold War was dead? It appears that what happened in late 1991 was a premature announcement of the death of the cold war that existed between the two superpower-led blocks – one led by the United States and the other by the Soviet Union. With the disintegration of the mighty Soviet Union, it was said that the …
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Zionism: more than traditional colonialism and apartheid By Lasse Wilhelmson
(June 10,Stockholm, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Jewish colonisation of Palestine under the Zionist slogan “the land without people to the people without a land” started almost a hundred years ago and reached its first climax with the proclamation of The Jewish State of Israel in 1948. A second climax is now in the offing through the ongoing colonisation of the …
Read More »Reflections by Comrade Fidel Obama’s speech in Cairo
Reflections by Comrade Fidel Obama’s speech in Cairo Continued From Wednesday Obama’s African roots, his humble background and his amazing ascent awaken hope in many who like shipwreck victims try to hold on to a piece of wood in the middle of the storm. His statement that “any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another …
Read More »Reflections by Comrade Fidel Obama’s speech in Cairo
On Thursday the 4th of June, at the Islamic University of Al-Azhar in Cairo, Obama gave a speech of special interest to those of us who are closely following his political actions given the enormous might of the superpower he leads. I cite his very own words to indicate what I think are the basic ideas he expressed, thus summarizing …
Read More »Sri Lanka-Israel Relations By Kalana Senaratne
The Emerging Trend of Principled Diplomacy Concerns raised and votes cast, this way or that, for or against us, help dispel doubts which linger concerning inter-state relations or affairs between states. If we needed a counter-response to our response on Israel’s recent war in Gaza, we received it during the recently concluded Special Session on Sri Lanka at the UN …
Read More »Roots of a conflict By Shelley Walia
Focussing on the dark history of undermining of democracy in West Asia by America. THESE are days when to think of West Asia is to think of Gaza. The world imagines the people of Gaza to be its indigenous population, but the truth is that Israel drove out thousands of Palestinian families from the villages of Ashkelon and Beersheba in …
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