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Donald Trump Does America want a jerk president? Apparently, says Jimmy Carter who ‘prays’ for Donald Trump During an appearance on ‘The Late Show’, host Stephen Colbert asked the 93-year-old former president whether America wants ‘kind of a jerk as president’ …

Power in America More books & articles • An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1% (with link to 2014 update) • The Class-Domination Theory of Power: An explanation of why the wealth and income distributions are so unequal in the U.S., and how the political system works. • The Left and the Right in Thinking, Personality, and Politics: An exploration of the personality differences and psychology behind the liberal/conservative divide. • Social Movements and Social Change: Perspectives based on social science research. Wealth, Income, and Power by G. Wi…

Lt. Col. Nalinda Kumarasinghe was killed in Jaffna Thursday The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) currently withdrawing from the Jaffna peninsula delivered a big blow to the army on Thursday Jan 8th as a high – ranking army officer was killed. Lt. Col Nalinda Kumarasinghe RWP, RSP was killed in a booby trap explosion in the Puloppalai area of the peninsula. Lt. Col Kumarasinghe was the commanding officer of 5 Gemunu watch which is attached to the Air Mobile brigade that is a component of the 53 division Lt. Col Kumarasinghe was moving along with his troops from Pallai in a south eastern direction. The carefully booby trap exploded as the jeep t…

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit has scheduled March 8th, 9:30 am for the oral argument in the appeal case against Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse for civil damages on war-crimes charges filed by three Tamil plaintiffs whose relatives were extra-judicially executed or unlawfully killed under the "command responsibility" of Rajapakse. "The key legal issue in this case is whether the U.S.'s Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA) deputed the Executive Branch with authority to extinguish TVPA claims against sitting heads of state based on professed foreign policy concerns," plaintiff-appellants' attorney, Bruce Fein, said. Judges Merr…

The US is sending $1 billion every year to Russia's nuclear program, despite pledging to cripple its economy with sanctions Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers speech in Moscow, Russia, on March 16, 2023. Contributor/Getty Images US companies are sending $1 billion each year to Russia's state-owned nuclear agency, despite President Joe Biden pledging to cripple Russia's economy, according to a report in …

The theme of this essay is the need for a multisided and flexible long-term approach that is free from narrow isms and prejudices in countering the threat to the rule of law, decency and democracy posed by the Rajapaksa Regime (RR). The essay distances itself from three categories of people, all good anti-RR folk, but I think tactically, strategically of psychologically a bit on the wrong track; the talk-&-write only verbal champions of democracy, the ultra-left radicals who proclaim that veedi satang (mass uprisings on the street) should be the exclusive focus, and thirdly the dispirited and pessimistic. I recognise allies and potential allies among all these fo…

media captionAerial footage shows the X-Press Pearl breaking up and sinking off Sri Lanka's western coast A chemical-laden cargo ship is sinking off the coast of Sri Lanka, sparking fears of an environmental disaster. The Singapore-registered X-Press Pearl had been on fire for almost two weeks before the blaze was put out this week. Hundreds of tonnes of oil from fuel tanks could leak into the sea if it sinks, devastating nearby marine life. The Sri Lankan and Indian navies had worked jointly over the past days in an attempt to put out the fire and prevent the ship from breaking up and sinking. …

Saturday, September 6, 2014 By Chris Slee The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought for an independent Tamil homeland in the north and east of the island of Sri Lanka. The group was formed in response to discrimination against the Tamil people by the Sri Lankan government, after peaceful protests had been repeatedly met with violent repression. It waged an armed struggle for nearly three decades. The LTTE was militarily defeated in 2009, and no longer exists. Yet people are still being penalised for alleged links with the group. This is happening in Sri Lanka, in Australia, and in other countries. In Australia, Tamils who have been officially re…

Vijitha Herath claims JVP ideology cannot be destroyed Despite intense speculation to the contrary, JVP front-liner Vijitha Herath vehemently denies any kind of fissures within the Marxist party in a wide ranging interview with The Nation this week. By Rathindra Kuruwita Following are excerpts: Q: The Indian Prime Minister has said that he will attend the 2008 Independence Day celebrations only if a proposal to solve the ethnic conflict is presented to the President, by the APRC. What do you feel about that demand? A: India or any other country does not have the right to tell us how we should settle our internal affairs. No one can tell us how and when we sho…

Alexandra Mae Jones, CTVNews.ca Published Saturday, August 31, 2019 7:28PM EDT Toronto is the safest city in North America, according to a new report on cities worldwide, which also ranks the Ontario capital as the sixth safest city overall. This year’s Safe Cities Index, a report put out by The Economist Intelligence Unit, looked at 60 cities across five different continents. The criteria for scoring was split into four major categories: digital safety, infrastructure, health and pe…

The Tamil-Canadian artist talks finding space in the international music scene and the controversy over his appearance on Rolling Stone India Gajan Balan Last summer, Toronto singer Witch Prophet and her producer Sun Sun pulled up to rapper Shan Vincent de Paul’s downtown studio out of the blue. They were there to hand him an award, just for being dope. “It meant a lot,” says Vincent de Paul, on a Zoom call from that same studio, describing the one-off gesture that Witch Prophet and Sun Sun bestowed on a handful of local artists. Vincent de Paul’s never been shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize or nominated for a Juno, never mind the bangers he’s be…

How the United Nations failed Sri Lanka By: Rosie DiManno Mon Nov 04 2013 (Injured civilians are seen in a make-shift hospital in this photograph released by the pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) group "Mercy Mission to Vanni" April 20, 2009 showing what they say are wounded that were fleeing from an area still controlled by the LTTE in the "No Fire Zone" near the village of Putumatalan in Puthukkudiyirippu, northeastern Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government has repeatedly accused the LTTE and its sympathisers of trying to manufacture a civilian crisis to build international pressure on a cease-fire, especially when the Tigers are suffering military…

An Interview with Sri Lanka’s C.V. Wigneswaran Taylor Dibbert C.V. Wigneswaran is the chief minister of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka and a member of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Maithripala Sirisena became president three years ago. What are the principal challenges for people living in the Northern Province? No doubt the earlier environment is no more. Democracy, to a great extent, has returned. But our expectations have not been fulfilled. Over sixty thousand [acres of] private and state lands are still occupied by the armed forces nine years after the end of t…

Gotabhaya Rajapaksa won Sri Lanka’s bitterly contested presidential poll, bringing with him a family of strongmen that could shift the island nation back toward China and reignite racial tensions that have divided the country for decades. Rajapaksa, 70, won 52.3% of the vote, while the ruling alliance candidate Sajith Premadasa trailed with 42% at the final count, according to state-run television station Rupavahini. He is due to take the oath of office Monday where he will face a parliament led by rival and current Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, potentially setting off another constitutional standoff that may not be resolved until parliamentary elections due a…

TAMIL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - TCHR/CTDH CENTRE TAMOUL POUR LES DROITS DE L'HOMME (Established in 1990) (UN accredited NGO to the World Summit on Information Society) www.tchr.net Ref : EH074/PR/2006 10 May 2006 Ethnic cleansing and mass murder in the name of Buddhism and tolerance ".. I do not want to hide the fact that I am a Buddhist and remind them the Buddha taught us tolerance of persons of other religious views” said Sri Lanka's former Prime Minister and present President Mahinda Rajapaksa. (www.mahindarajapaksa.com - 1 October 2005) Is it necessary for any President or even t…

Leader of the Democratic Party (DP) and former Army Commander Gen. Sarath Fonseka yesterday said that depriving him of his right to exercise his franchise by the Elections Commissioner with a presidential election on the horizon demonstrated that President Mahinda Rajapaksa was scared of facing him in a presidential contest. Addressing a news conference at Kotte, the war winning general challenged President Rajapaksa to face him at the forthcoming presidential election. "The Democratic Party will not give in to the repressive action of the President and his cohorts and there are persons in our party who could garner more votes than I and we will take a dec…

(Adds second tsunami warning lifted) By Ahmad Pathoni JAKARTA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake of 8.2 magnitude struck Indonesia's Sumatra region on Wednesday, triggering tsunami warnings in the Indian Ocean, sparking panic in coastal areas across Southeast Asia and causing at least two deaths. Indonesia issued two tsunami warnings, one after the first quake, and the second after a smaller tremor a few hours later in the same area. However, the Indonesian warnings and most others in the region had been lifted by 1600 GMT. An official at Indonesia's meteorological agency had said gauges measured a wave surge of 1 metre after the first qua…

Rice expensive for Mahinda; But not for Prabha Lanka-e-News, 2008 Feb 02, 5.15 AM) The rice price in Vanni dropped drastically as low as Rs. 20 per kilo since the LTTE issued the rice stocks of the Jordan ship abducted by the Tigers. Today, the livelihood of many of the people in Vanni is trading rice brought from Vanni in Vavuniya. The photo depicts people enter into Government controlled territory with bags of rice on their shoulders near Omanthai entry exit point. The LTTE checkpoint is in the backdrop. Rice is sold around Rs. 100 per kilo in south these days.

I only watched ‘No Fire Zone’ by chance. But its revelations about Sri Lanka are surely unmissable How can it be that the message of this documentary hasn't got through? By Memphis Barker Monday 4 November 2013 About two minutes in to No Fire Zone and holding the remote control I asked my mum if she wanted to change the channel back to Was It Something I Said, the comedy quiz show the family sometimes takes in after Homeland on Sunday nights. The answer was no. As a result, we watched this report on how in 2009 Sri Lanka’s government ushered Tamil civilians into “safe zones” – before subjecting them to sustained fire from heavy weaponry. Neither of us had heard …

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Josy Joseph Sunday, June 11, 2006 23:16 IST NEW DELHI: Pakistan has opened a massive $250 million credit line for supplying Sri Lankan military equipment, including many offensive weapon systems such as tanks, say authoritative sources. The figure contradicts recent reports about Pakistan providing around $50 million military assistance to Lanka. Indian sources insist that an eager Pakistan is stepping it up to $250 million, raising several new uncomfortable questions for India. The report comes at a time when India is worriedly looking at Pakistan planning to gift two of its old submarines to Bangladesh. With China too exhibiting interest in cultivating India…

Oil sanctions are only hurting us and helping Putin — there’s a better way The sanctions policies have created a bizarre situation in which the United States and its allies are paying more at the pump, while Russian is earning more money.Getty Images After Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, Western nations, including the United States and those in Europe, were quick to slap punitive sanctions on the country. The idea was to punish Russia for the invasion by collapsing its economy. President Biden told the public the goal was to “reduce the ruble to rubble.” Eight months later, it is cle…