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Hizbullah Engaged in Direct Contacts with CIA, Pentagon إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية The U.S. Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are engaged in direct and indirect contacts with Hizbullah, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Friday. According to the report, the talks focus on several aspects and include the Islamist movement Hamas. However, information received by LBCI ruled out the report, saying it was not true. In November, the U.S. embassy in Lebanon denied a report by the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa newspaper saying that U.S. officials have been involved in talks with Hizbullah. "No official at the embassy has or is engaged in discussion with…

Blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms Thursday, 03 August 2006 Hon. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European External Relations Commission (Sri Lanka) Honoured Madam, Re: “I am deeply concerned at the blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms,” European External Relations Commission Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in a statement. You were not concerned at the disruption of the peace process to the extent you are concerned, that also deeply, at the blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms. You were not concerned at least on humanitarian grounds, when the implementation of the "Joint Mecha…

The Plants Respond An Interview With Cleve Backster by DERRICK JENSEN TABLE OF CONTENTS DERRICK JENSEN’s most recent book is titled As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial (Seven Stories Press). He lives in Crescent City, California. www.derrickjensen.org Sometimes it happens that a person can name the exact moment when his or her life changed irrevocably. For Cleve Backster, it was early in the morning of February 2, 1966, at thirteen minutes, fifty-five seconds into a polygraph test he was administering. Backster, a leading polygraph expert whose Backster Zone Comparison Test is the worldwide standard for lie detection, h…

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Tens of thousands are reportedly still living with the effects of Agent Orange, a toxic herbicide the US military used during the Vietnam war

Do you wish to learn more about the Tamil struggle? Do you feel held back by the sheer volume of information that’s available? Do you worry about getting caught up in heated arguments about sensitive issues? This study group is for you! We aim to provide an informal, but safe space where we will present information about the foundations of the Tamil struggle. This will include colonial history, state oppression, the development of Eelam Tamil nationalist politics, and the armed struggle. We will also enable you to ask any questions relevant to the topics. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/tamil-struggle How will it work? PEARL will provide a weekl…

On June 3, 2019, my wife and I welcomed our daughter into the world. She’s barely old enough to walk, so her job (mostly eating and sleeping) hasn’t changed much. But, one day, she’ll need some money and life advice. As a father who has spent much of his career studying and writing about money, behavioral finance and business, this is what I’ll tell her: 1. Don’t underestimate the role of chance in life. It’s easy to assume that wealth and poverty are caused by the choices we make, but it’s even easier to underestimate the role of chance in life. The families, values, countries and generations we’re born into, as well as the people we h…

Posted by: Dexter Roberts on December 15 It’s a big day for cross-Straits relations. Ending an almost 60-year-old ban on direct links that date back to the civil war between the Chinese Communists and Taiwan’s KMT Party, beginning today Taiwan and the mainland are allowing direct trade, transport, and postal links—what the Chinese call “three direct links.” And it’s long overdue: over the last twenty years, economic relations between the former enemies have soared. Today more than 750,000 Taiwanese live and work on the mainland, having invested tens of billions of dollars. Trade is expected to soon reach $100 billion, with Taiwanese electronics components, as we…

Either we are too naïve or extremely foolish. While the forces against Sri Lanka had been getting ready to degrade Sri Lanka for months, a team leader to counter the allegations on behalf of the country was appointed just 72 hours before the United Nations Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva, Switzerland. It has been reported in the media that the decision to appoint President Rajapaksa’s Human Rights envoy Mahinda Samarasinghe to present Sri Lanka’s case in Geneva was a sudden decision. Samarasinghe who had been in the forefront in the previous Human Rights Council sessions was kept in the dark this time about the preparations for Council sessions—if there’s an…

Coercive Control என்றால் என்ன? அது எதுவரை எங்களை இழுத்துச்செல்லும் என்பதை இந்த சம்பவம் சொல்கிறது.. பொதுவாக ஆண்கள்தான் coercive controllers இருப்பார்கள் என்பதில்லை,பெண்களிலும் இந்த மாதிரியானவர்கள் இருக்கிறார்கள், அவர்களால் வாழ்க்கை பாதிக்கப்பட்டவர்களும் உண்டு.. இந்த மாதிரியான மனநிலை உடையவர்களின் செயல்கள் மற்றவர்களை பாதிக்கும் பட்சத்தில் அது ஒரு குற்றமாக பார்க்கப்பட்டு அதற்கான நடவடிக்கைகளை எடுக்கும் ஒரே ஒரு மாநிலமாக தஸ்மேனியா உள்ளது.. தெற்கு அவுஸ்ரேலியாவில் குற்றமாக அறிவிக்கப்படும் சட்டம்வரைபு பாராளுமன்றத்தில் கொண்டுவரப்பட்டுள்ளது ஆனால் இன்னமும் வாக்களிக்கப்படவில்லை.. GOOD WEEKEND 'Intimate terrorism': why the murders of Hannah, Aaliyah, Laianah and T…

One of the largest corporate donors to Britain's Conservative Party, and a key sponsor of the Commonwealth business event in Colombo this week, has been shown to have close links to the family of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. According to Corporate Watch, Hastings Trading e Serviços Lda, a company owned by the Lyca Group, bought a 95% share in a dormant firm registered with Rajapaksa's nephew, Himal Lalindra Hettiarachchi as reported by the Sunday Leader in 2009. The company went on to receive a key license to operate cutting-edge wireless broadband frequencies in Sri Lanka, forcing the state-owned telecoms company to merge. Lycamobile has donated over £…

Sampanthan off to India TNA Parliamentary group leader R. Sampathan left for India yesterday after the Indian Government wanted him and a few others to come over to India immediately. It is learnt that MP Mavai Senadhiraja is scheduled to meet Mr. Sampathan there Thanks http://www.dailymirror.lk/

சிங்கள பாதுகாப்பு அமைச்சு இப்படியொரு செய்தியை வெளியிட்டுள்ளது. LTTE terrorists launched a mortar attack targeting VIP air movement carrying Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe along with few foreign diplomats around 9 this morning. Defense sources said that the mortars were launched as the two helicopters landed at the Webber stadium in the Batticaloa town. Sources further confirmed that Minister suffered no injuries in the attack. However, few people including a foreign diplomat have suffered injuries. A helicopter belonging to a private airliner was slightly damaged in the attack. More information will follow.

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