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April M. Short

April M. Short is an editor, journalist, and documentary editor and producer. She is a co-founder of the Observatory, where she is the Local Peace Economy editor, and she is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute. Previously, she was a managing editor at AlterNet as well as an award-winning senior staff writer for Good Times, a weekly newspaper in Santa Cruz, California. Her work has been published with the San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, LA Yoga, Pressenza, the Conversation, Salon, and many other publications.

    October 20, 2026
    Columns/Geopolitics

    India: LoC Infiltration Attempts Persist

    Indian security forces have foiled at least ten infiltration attempts along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir in 2026, killing nine terrorists in five incidents, according to partial SATP data.

    Columns/Geopolitics

    Baloch Insurgency Intensifies as BRG Escalates Attacks

    The Baloch Republican Guards (BRG) have sharply escalated their operations in 2026, with at least 23 security personnel killed in six BRG-linked incidents, according to partial SATP data. From deadly ambushes to attacks on railways, power infrastructure and government installations,

    October 20, 2026

    The Indian Ocean’s Security Partnerships: When Cooperation Becomes Dependence

    Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    For Sri Lanka, maritime security is not an abstract geopolitical concern. The island’s location near major shipping routes creates opportunities for trade, fisheries, and

    China’s Suspected Underwater Drone Motherships Signal Expanding Naval Ambitions

    Defence/Geopolitics

    China appears to be developing a second unusually configured vessel that could serve as a mothership for large underwater drones, adding to evidence of

    Telling the ‘Untold’ Stories of Palestinian Lives, Dreams, and Hopes—in Gaza and Beyond

    April 20, 2024
    Diplomacy

    After a decade of struggling with infertility and undergoing IVF procedures, 27-year-old Alaa gave birth to her first son, Kareem—an “energetic and brilliant child” with a “sweet” soul who “filled the house

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    Reviving Humanity: Embracing ‘Stories for Life’

    February 24, 2024
    Education

    The stories we do and don’t tell about ourselves and these times in which we’re living shape the direction of our lives and our cultures. Stories have the power to alter how

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    Three Museums Leading the Paradigm Shift on Exploring Our Origins

    February 14, 2024
    Business/Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    Breakthrough anthropological and scientific findings have allowed researchers to better trace the outlines, and begin to fill in the blanks, of the human evolutionary story in recent decades. We’re now able to

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    ‘Practices for Care and Endurance’ Support Those Organizing for Ceasefire in Gaza

    December 9, 2023
    Israel/Palestinian

    Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip—which began following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023—has led to mass civilian deaths including those of more than 6,000 children as of November, with “damning evidence of

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    The Power of Poetry to Move Us to Love in Times of Human Cruelty

    November 30, 2023
    Education

    Near the end of November 2023, about 15,000 people—including at least 5,500 children—had been killed by Israeli military bombardment in less than two months. Israel’s near-constant bombing and artillery fire in the 25-mile Gaza Strip

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    The article questions whether protests conducted under the banner of

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    The Sri Lanka Guardian is an online newspaper founded in August 2007 by a group of concerned Sri Lankan citizens including journalists, activists, academics and retired civil servants. Sri Lanka Guardian has registered as an online newspaper in the Government of Sri Lanka. This portal is currently a platform for over seven hundred regular writers from around the world. We are an independent and nonprofit. Email : editor@slguardian.org
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