Harsha de Silva

Harsha de Silva is a Sri Lankan economist and politician. He is a member of the main opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) in Sri Lanka.

April 17, 2023

Columns/Diplomacy

Corruption in Ukraine: Comparing the Magnitude to the Afghan War

The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in

Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

The CIA is not your friend

“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as

September 20, 2022

Here is How US Secretly Explodes Nord Stream Pipeline to Blam Putin

Corruption/Diplomacy

The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane

Exclusive: US-India Move to Establish Joint Military Base in Trincomalee?

Defence/Diplomacy/News

by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Victoria Nuland, the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs of the United States, has made a second visit

Sri Lanka: Diagnosis of An Economic Disaster

August 14, 2022

Business

In the 74 years since our independence, Sri Lanka has achieved much in terms of human development, despite lingering human rights issues and gaps in democratic governance. Yet we have been economically