Ranga Jayasuriya is a journalist and political analyst. He is an alumnus of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), NTU. He holds a PhD from Central China Normal University (CCNU).
Tucked into a Sept. 10, 1998, intelligence report sent to President Bill Clinton’s White House was a warning that, more than a quarter-century later, reads with striking prescience. A CIA analyst wrote
1. Manic “Change Round” In Sigmund Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia,” the melancholic is in want of an object, never knowing exactly what they may have lost. Melancholy transforms the object-loss of mourning into an ego-loss; consequently, psychic conflict is internalized in
Sky News published a video this month that opens on a rigged explosive device and a pickax under a stark title card, “Inside the
Saudi Arabia has temporarily shut its 1,200-kilometre East-West oil pipeline after a drone attack damaged the vital crude conduit, adding to mounting disruptions to
This article was originally published in the Daily Mirror, a Colombo-based daily newspaper. We are republishing it, as it offers crucial insight into the events that led to—and followed—the Easter Sunday attacks
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