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I recently returned from one of my regular Pastoral visits to our Congregations (Churches) and Schools in Jaffna . Such visits are always educative and humbling. What was immediately noticeable was the pre-occupation with routine in the lives of the people; simply because there seems to be little else to look forward to. People went about their daily business and …
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Smile on the face of the Tiger, By John Pilger
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger de-codes the “historic” speech President Obama made in Cairo “reaching out to the Muslim world”, according to the BBC: in reality showing the seductive face of American power as it proceeds towards its unchanged goal. At 7.30 in the morning on 3 June, a seven-month-old baby died in the intensive …
Read More »Obama’s Cairo Speech – Lies, Spin And Holocaust Denial By Gideon Polya
Obama’s speech in Cairo was full of nice politically correct (PC) expressions of love for Islam and Muslims but dishonestly evaded the central issue of ongoing US Alliance occupation and devastation of Muslim countries and abusive mass imprisonment of the conquered populations of these Occupied Territories including Occupied Somalia (not mentioned), Occupied Palestine, Occupied Syria (not mentioned), Occupied Lebanon (not …
Read More »Sri Lanka’s ‘Invisible’ people By Kumari Jayawardena
The timeliness of this book review is underlined by these words of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to the people of Sri Lanka on May 19, on the occasion of the country’s ‘30 year war’ coming to a close: “We have removed the word minorities from our vocabulary three years ago. No longer are the Tamils, Muslims, Burghers, Malays and any others …
Read More »Political Options For Jerusalem’s Future By Dan Lieberman
Israel’s latest strategy for complicating the peace process is to delay discussions of Jerusalem’s future. Steering debate to other agendas enables Israel to establish more “facts on Jerusalem ground,” which consists of annexing lands, constructing bypass roads and housing and preparing for the decisive moment that will allow expansion of the Maale Adumim settlement and the development of the E1 …
Read More »Shanghai Forum: Superpower politics and Central Asian oil
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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