For President Ranil Wickremesinghe and his government March will be the most eventful month. It may also become the month of their reckoning, a fact hardly lost on the regime’s detractors as they get ready for a spate of protests against…
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President Ranil Wickremesinghe may have achieved a temporary respite from finding out what the real voter sentiment is by postponing the local government polls. But he has also sown the seeds for a massive backlash from voters he is likely…
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Sri Lanka has been subject to a great lie: the IMF solution! For close to a year now, the country has been implementing the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) recommendations with complete obedience. The consequence is economic devastation…
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The government’s attempts to subvert the Election Commission’s decision to hold local government elections on March 9 clearly demonstrates the de-democratizing intentions of the Wickremesinghe–Rajapaksa ruling coalition
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Sri Lanka's blood-spattered 30-year war is sad evidence for the ways in which a culturally established myth about race could poison the minds of people and become politicized with catastrophic consequences
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In 2022 Sri Lanka faced its deepest ever economic and political crisis. The country’s descent into chaos accelerated from March, sweeping away high-level bureaucrats and political leaders held culpable for implementing the misguided…
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President Ranil Wickremesinghe's proposition is to sell even the profit making State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to settle debt, noting the experiences of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) and Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation. Yet privatizing SOEs in a…
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Trump is significantly diminished, a shrunken presence on the political landscape. His fade is partly a function of his own missteps and miscalculations in recent months. But it is also a product of the voluminous evidence assembled by the…
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China’s narratives attempt to establish a discourse concerning the continuation of Buddhist cooperation between the two countries as a prerequisite for establishing a “harmonious Buddhist world”. The BRI is promoted as a central part of…
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European leaders have been converging on Africa’s capital cities, eager to find alternatives to Russian natural gas — sparking hope among their counterparts in Africa that the invasion of Ukraine may tilt the scales in the continent’s…
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