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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/us-china-competition-capitalism-rivalry The US-China Rivalry Is About Capitalist Competition BY HO-FUNG HUNG Proclamations of a New Cold War between China and the US herald a clash between authoritarianism and liberal democracy. But what we’re seeing in the growing rivalry between the two countries isn’t based on ideological difference but on inter-capitalist competition. Chinese citizens in the central business district on March 12, 2020 in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer / Getty Images) Our spring issue, “Pandemic Politics,” is out now. It features ove…

Ban Ki-moon urges dialogue to halt violence in Sri Lanka following latest attacks UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon 16 January 2008 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the attacks which occurred in Sri Lanka today, killing and injuring dozens – including children – and coinciding with the formal end of a truce between the Government and Tamil rebels. “The only way to stop further violence in Sri Lanka is through dialogue,” Mr. Ban said in a statement issued by his spokesperson. He also urged the parties concerned “to undertake genuine efforts to achieve a peaceful negotiated solution.” Earlier this month, Mr. Ban had expressed his c…

A Long Shot At Peace In Sri Lanka Source: Tehelka - June 30, 2006 An old intelligence hand, National Security Adviser MK Narayanan is said to know Sri Lanka like the back of his hand. PC Vinoj Kumar on how the LTTE’s longtime critic might impact policy The National Security Adviser (NSA) MK Narayanan is set to play a more visible role in the Indian government’s initiative in Sri Lanka. As the Centre’s emissary, he will be holding discussions with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on the recent developments in the island nation, which appears to be sliding into war. For Narayanan, this will be a test of his diplomatic skills. The Intell…

புலிகளும் தமிழீழமும் சர்வதேச அங்கீகாரத்தை நோக்கி நிதானமாக முன்னேறுகிறார்கள். http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticl...&archived=False

New York (CNN Business)Joe Tsai, the billionaire co-founder of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, and his wife Clara Wu Tsai, have donated 2.6 million masks, 170,000 goggles and 2000 ventilators to New York — the US epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. The supplies were split into two shipments. The first arrived on Thursday at Newark Liberty International Airport, while the second arrived on Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport. "We kept hearing cries for (personal protective equipment) from our community and wanted to help," Clara Tsai told CNN in an interview. The state will allocate the second shipment but "it's our intention to help the most …

At 1:50 am Sunday, when most of Colombo was either sleeping or watching Sri Lanka’s cricketing heroes succumb to Australia in the final of the World Cup being played a dozen time zones away in Barbados in front of their junketing president, Mahinda Rajapakse, the Road Warrior-style air force of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam launched a raid on Colombo. Continue to read

‘Anything is fair’ when fighting LTTE: Gothabaya Rajapaksa. Sri Lanka’s hardline Defence Secretary launched a bitter attack on the international community Tuesday, saying Sri Lanka was being bullied by Western states over human rights. We have to defend ourselves. I'm talking about terrorists. Anything is fair, Gotabaya Rajapaksa told Reuters and the BBC. He said the United Nations agencies had been infiltrated and misled by the Liberation Tigers over 30 years. Gotabaya, who is also President Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother, accused foreign powers of applying double standards when it comes to human rights violations, saying all measures were fair to defeat Trrorists…

Expression of support to LTTE not an offence: Karunanidhi [TamilNet, Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 16:55 GMT] Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Monday reiterated that mere expression of support to the LTTE was not an offence as per an observation of the Indian Supreme Court. He admonished Opposition leader Jayalalithaa for misleading the people on this issue. He said that when a Congress member C Gnanasekaran had raised the issue and demanded action against Viduthalai Chiruththaikal Kadchi (VCK) leader Thol Thirumavalavan for organising a conference in support of LTTE, the Government could not take any hasty action as the apex court itself had said mere…

Tamil Eelam supporters meeting will be held in Periyar Tidal at Chennai on 01-06-2006 at 5 pm. In the meeting Thiru Suba.Vee, Thiru. G.K. Mani of PMK, Poet Arivumathi and others will take part. The urgent meeting has been convened this time to condemn the action of Sri Lanka govt.'s recent atrocities on Tamil in Tamil Eelam area. The meeting is organised by Dravidar Kazhagam headed by Thiru Veeramani. [THE END] - Protest in support to Eelam Tamils on June 12 - TESCC [TIS] Tamil Eelam Supporters Coordinating Committee [TESCC] plans to protest against recent atrocities on Tamils by the Sri Lankan government. The protest will be held in all district head quarters i…

Claims Of A Meteorite's Ancient Aquatic Fossils Spark Debate Enlarge image i Images show what researchers say could be a "hystrichosphere," a fossilized dinoflagellate cyst. Journal of Cosmology Images show what researchers say could be a "hystrichosphere," a fossilized dinoflagellate cyst. Journal of Cosmology A meteorite that lit the sky over Sri Lanka with a yellow and green flame when it fell to earth on Dec. 29, 2012, contains "fossilized biological structures," according to researchers in Britain, Sri Lanka, and the United States. Elaborating on claims they first made in January, the scientists are also seeking to answe…

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United Sri Lanka," cannot be accepted as a pre-negotiation parameter - Rudrakumaran During peace negotiations in South Sudan, Northern Ireland, Montenegro and Bougainville, the international community did not set "united country" as a pre-negotiation parameter for the expected outcome of a negotiated solution. The international community's stand that solution to the Tamil national question should be found within a united Sri Lanka, runs contrary to the current international practice, and to the law of self-determination, argued Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, legal advisor to the Liberation Tigers, in a paper presented at a conference held in Zurich in April. The…

Sri Lanka rules out attempts for military gains, wants peace Sri Lankan government says there will not be anymore military action to gain territory, and wants to pursue peace negotiations with the Tamil Tiger rebels. The government statement came a day after the military had recorded a major triumph in the eastern province in the military clashes with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels. The government troops annexed from the LTTE control the key Sampur area located south of the Trincomalee harbor on the ninth day of an offensive on Monday. "The operation was not to gain territory or record victories it was just an operation…

, இடம்பெயர்ந்த மக்களுக்கான மனிதாபிமான உதவிகளை வழங்குவது தொடர்பாக திருகோணமலை மாவட்ட அரசியல்துறைப் பொறுப்பாளர் சி.எழிலன் விடுதலைப் புலிகளின் ஐ.நா நிறுவனங்களுக்கான இணைப்பாளர் பாவரசன் ஆகியோர் நடவடிக்கை மேற்கொண்டு வருகின்றனர். Tigers discuss humanitarian measures in Muttur Military Spokesperson of the Tigers , Mr. Irasaiah Ilanthirayan (Marshall) [TamilNet, August 03, 2006 11:32 GMT] Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Trincomalee District Politicah Head S. Elilan and the LTTE's Liason officer for UN and NGO affairs, were engaged in discussing humanitarian measures to releave the civilian population that has taken refuge in Mosques and Churc…

14 November 2013 Sri Lanka's civil war is officially over, but people are still being "disappeared" - vanishing without a trace, often, allegedly, in the state's unmarked "white vans. After Iraq, Sri Lanka has the highest number of enforced disappearances in the world, the United Nations has said. The latest report from the UN's working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances, set up in 1980, says that there are 5,676 outstanding cases of enforced disappearances, though the actual number of disappeared could be much higher. The majority of cases date back to Sri Lanka's civil war between the government and the LTTE, commonly known as the Tamil…

Devolution panel’s mandate curtailedPublished: Monday, 21 January, 2008, 06:39 AM Doha Time COLOMBO: An all-party panel in Sri Lanka is set to reject the Tamil minority’s demand for a federal constitution while suggesting improvements in the present unitary system to make it more democratic. This follows pressure from President Mahinda Rajapakse on the All-Party Representative Committee (APRC) not to go beyond the devolution granted by the 13th amendment to the Sri Lankan constitution that followed the 1987 India-Sri Lanka peace accord, an informed source told IANS. The APRC, headed by Science Minister Tissa Vitharana, is to give its recommendations January 23. …

Claymore blast kills 3 SLA soldiers in Vavuniya [TamilNet, September 10, 2006 07:42 GMT] Three Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed and two injured in a claymore attack at Aasikulam in Vavuniya, around 10:45 a.m., Sunday, police in the northern town said. The attack targetted a SLA patrol along Mylankulam road. The injured soldiers were taken to Vavuniya military hospital and later transferred to Anurdhapura. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=19535

California wildfire burns more than 200 homes. Firefighters are battling a raging wildfire near Lake Tahoe in California that has destroyed more than 200 homes and forced about 1,000 people to leave. Officials say 460 firefighters are tackling the blaze and they expect that number to double during the day. In Alaska, fire crews were working to protect hundreds of homes in the Kenai Peninsula as a fire which broke out last week continued to smoulder. The fire spread 81 square miles (210 sq km) before being slowed by rain. High winds were hampering firefighters as they tried to tackle the fast-moving fire near the town of South Lake Tahoe in Cal…

வன்னியில் இருக்கும் பொழுது வாழ்க்கையின் யதார்த்தத்தை மிக அருகில் காட்டி உங்கள் கண்களை திறக்க வைக்கிறது. ஒரு வறுமையான உடலில் உள்ள ஆன்மாவின் செல்வந்த செழிப்பு உங்கள் இதையத்தை தொடுகிறது. Reporting from Vanni, Part III I saw richness in poverty by K.Mylvaganam For these families, the lack of contact with people is their poverty. Now my friend from USA will be writing to them once he gets this photo and their address. The Senkodans will appreciate the letters a lot more than the monetary contribution my friend has made. I know that for certain. It will give them great satisfaction that there is someone unknown to them somewhere in some part of the world who care…

Built on land reclaimed from the Indian Ocean and funded with $1.4bn in Chinese investment, glossy plans for Port City inspire a mixture of optimism and alarm https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2018/aug/02/sri-lanka-new-dubai-chinese-city-colombo

Updated: September 05, 2006 00:21 GMT [TamilNet, September 04, 2006 12:34 GMT] Seven more mutilated bodies of civilians killed in artillery fire in Allaipiddy 20 days ago, were photographed and burried Monday at the presence of Jaffna District Magistrate, E. T. Vignarajah. Around 40 civilians were reportedly killed in Allaipiddy. So far, 25 deaths have been verified by humanitarian and legal sources. Relatives of 12 more civilian victims have appealed to the Jaffna regional office of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka seeking help to remove the bodies lying inside the houses located in Ward No: 4 of Allaipiddy. Sri Lanka Navy is not allowing any civilians…

WAR IN WANNI: WHY THE tIGERS ARE DOWN BUT NOT OUT D.B.S.Jeyaraj In writing about the ongoing war in the Wanni northern mainland, I have been regularly emphasising a salient point that goes against the view propagated by upper echelons of the power structure and dominant sections of society. According to this viewpoint, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) faces imminent destruction and the war would be over very soon. While subscribing to the opinion that the armed forces are indeed on the ascendant my take on the LTTE has been different. Regular readers would recall that I have been constantly asserting that the Tigers are not a …

Report: Sri Lankan rebels reinforcing their feared 'Sea Tiger' naval force Associated Press, Mon January 30, 2006 03:05 EST DILIP GANGULY - Associated Press Writer - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Sri Lanka - 's Tamil Tiger rebels have trained more fighters for their ``Sea Tiger'' naval force, sparking yet more fears that a fraying government-rebel truce may snap, a defense analyst and pro-rebel Web-site said. The Tamil Tigers began fighting in 1983 for a separate state for Sri Lanka - 's minority ethnic Tamils, accusing the majority Sinhalese of discrimination. The conflict claimed at least 65,000 lives before a Norway-brokered cease-fire in 2002. However, pea…

Consolidating the CFA is the only way to stabilise the conditions of peace and normalcy Dr. Anton Balasingham LTTE Chief Negotiator Dr. Anton Balasingam said that "consolidating the Ceasefire Agreement is the only practical way open to the parties in conflict to stabilise the conditions of peace and normalcy, which are essential and crucial to take the peace process forward" when he delivered the opening speech in the Geneva talks today. The full text of Dr. Balasingham's address follows: The Opening Address by Anton Balasingham, the chief negotiator of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, (LTTE) at the Peace Talks in Geneva on 22 February …

Sack The Political Thug! The year 2007 ended for the country in a tragicomedy. Tragic it was because the scenes at the Rupavahini studios on Thursday involving a minister of state accompanied by his 'bodyguard' - a double murder suspect released on bail - was a disgrace to any self-respecting nation, particularly one which boasts of an ancient civilisation and culture. The comedy was that the pint-sized comedian and his bodyguard were served their just desserts however unpalatable it may have been by the staff of the government's main propaganda institution which has the most trusted personnel of the ruling party. While violence in any form cannot be condoned …