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Michael Colin Cooke

Michael Colin Cooke is a retired public servant and trade union activist who has a lifelong interest in South Asian history, politics and culture. He has served as an election monitor in Sri Lanka. He has also penned when the occasion demanded a number of articles and film reviews.

    November 9, 2026
    Diplomacy/Editorials

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    Columns/Geopolitics

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    Sri Lanka Navy Secures Top Ranking at National Productivity Awards

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    The Sri Lanka Navy has secured first place in the Public Sector Inter-Departmental Category at the National Productivity Awards 2025/26, emerging as one of

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    Parallels in Conflicts: The facts on the ground — Part 4

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    Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    Click here to read Part 3 of this series This deflection flies in the face of the facts. As Reuters reported in the first six weeks of the war, hospital morgues sent

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    Sri Lanka, Palatines Parallels: What is missing from the discourse — Part 3

    March 4, 2024
    Human Rights

    In the Manichean universe of the Zionists and the Lankan state their actions are beyond reproach, but the actions of the oppressed are unjust and immoral. They make no allowance for the

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    The fantasy of the colonist defence — Part 2

    February 25, 2024
    Columns

    Click here to read Part 01 of this series Faced with a growing body of evidence of mass killings of civilians, the Lankan and the Israeli governments, as mentioned have fallen back

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    Parallel Struggles: Sri Lanka & Palestine — Part 1

    February 19, 2024
    Columns/Human Rights

    Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the wealth of others – the empires and their native overseers. In colonial

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    The Lesson Not Learnt: From “Operation Shock and Awe”  to AUKUS

    April 8, 2023
    Australia/Diplomacy/India/United Kingdom/United States

    The United States of America (US) must be one of the most incompetent, brutal and arrogant imperial powers in history. For Its hubris and gradual decline, the only counterpart is the Spanish

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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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