Did your politics originate from the LSSP? Yes. Lanka Sama Samaja Party is my first political party. I can comment from different angles about my life before that. However, in short, I was born in…
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An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission By Basil Fernando “Police officer” refers mostly to persons working for the Sri Lanka Police Service. But in the context of custodial torture, it also includes others…
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BYC.J. Polychroniou, Truthout PUBLISHEDMarch 29, 2021 President Joe Biden’s domestic policies, especially on the economic front, are quite encouraging, offering plenty of hope for a better future. The same, however, cannot be said about the administration’s foreign…
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NOTES TO THE PEOPLE By sumanasiri liyanage My good friend, Prof Sirimevan Colombage, who had a long experience in the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, has, in a couple of articles, raised an issue of…
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Posted Mar 11, 2021 by Alan MacLeod Originally published: MintPress News (March 5, 2021) Earlier this week, NATO put out a promotional video celebrating their diversity. The heavily-produced video featured a range of smiling people…
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Originaly published on http://www.cadtm.org/Thomas-Piketty-and-Karl-Marx-Two-totally-different-visions-of-Capital 09 March by Eric Toussaint In his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, [1] Thomas Piketty has gathered his data meticulously and provided a useful analysis of the unequal distribution of wealth…
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By CJ LAPOINTE Students are mobilizing across Greece in opposition to authoritarian measures that look to turn back the clock on university “asylum” laws that protect students from government repression and police brutality while on…
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By Cintia FrenciaDaniel Gaido International Women’s Day was developed as a celebration of working-class women and their contribution to the struggle against capitalism. n 1894, Clara Zetkin took to the pages of the Social Democratic women’s magazine Die Gleichheit (Equality),…
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Posted Feb 24, 2021 by Eds. Originally published: Dissident Voice by Kim Petersen (February 22, 2021) The Jewish Virtual Library quotes Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as having said: If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people…
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An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission by Basil Fernando In a separate article, I reported a recently delivered judgment by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka regarding an arbitrary termination of broadcast by…
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