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Editorial perspectives from the Sri Lanka Guardian editorial team on key national and global matters.

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September 12, 2026
Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

AI’s Insider Warning: The Race May Be Outrunning Control

Inside Anthropic, two words have reportedly circulated in corridors and private chats: “crunch time” and “endgame”. The first refers to the year or two that some employees believe remain before it becomes

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

Putin’s Fortress Arrives in Delhi

Diplomacy is usually conducted across polished tables. Increasingly, it is also conducted in the back seat of an armoured limousine. On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin closed bilateral talks on the eve of the 18th

September 12, 2026

Houthi Control of Yemen’s Coast Threatens a Global Energy Chokepoint

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

It may be coincidence that, on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, bad news from the Arab world is

Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, America Is Still Living With Its Emergency State

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

In a fragrant garden near San Francisco, Hamid Hayat, 43, tells his story over a coldening frittata. He is a thin man in jeans,

The Billion-Dollar Debt Behind Rich Dad, Poor Dad

September 5, 2026
Editor's Choice/Human Rights

For generations of aspiring investors, Robert Kiyosaki’s name has been closely associated with a simple but provocative proposition: debt can be a tool for building wealth. His 1997 bestseller, Rich Dad, Poor

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Lincoln’s Pleasure Seekers

September 5, 2026
Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

For nine months, the sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln have lived largely within the confines of a warship. This week, 5,000 American military personnel arrived in and around Pattaya, Thailand, as

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The Terrorist Tech Revolution: The Weapons Nobody Saw Coming

September 5, 2026
Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

For decades, successive US national security strategies have warned that violent non-state actors could acquire sophisticated technologies and use them to overcome conventional military advantages. Weapons of mass destruction, advanced military systems

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Iran Under Siege: Sanctions Fail to Bend Tehran

September 5, 2026
Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

The economic pressure being exerted on Iran by the United States is inflicting severe hardship on the population without materially changing the country’s core demands or preventing Tehran from challenging US operations

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Sri Lanka’s NPP Reform Mission Is Failing: UN

September 3, 2026
Editor's Choice/Human Rights

When Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power (NPP) Government came to office in late 2024, it presented itself as a decisive break with the political culture that had dominated the country for decades.

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Russia’s Shadow War Against Europe

September 3, 2026
Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

While the Iran War dominates international headlines, Russia continues to conduct increasingly brazen external operations on European soil. The pattern is becoming harder to dismiss as a series of isolated incidents: assassination

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US-Iran War: The Strait of Hormuz Becomes the Battlefield Again

September 3, 2026
Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

The fragile ceasefire and current status quo of the war between the United States and Iran were tested over the weekend as the U.S. military launched its first strikes in over a

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US Embassy in Colombo Adds a New Twist to Sri Lanka’s $21 Million Meth Bust

September 2, 2026
Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

by Our Correspondent in Colombo A major crystal methamphetamine seizure at Colombo Port has taken an unexpected turn after the US Embassy in Colombo publicly claimed that the operation was the result

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Mr President, Give Him the Ground

September 2, 2026
Editorials/Sri Lanka

Editorial Namal is rising. We do not know whether we are going to witness what the Philippines witnessed over the Marcos family, and it is far too early to predict such a

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250 Days at War, Then Pattaya — Mission Pleasure

September 2, 2026
Editorials/Geopolitics

Editorial The USS Abraham Lincoln is sailing towards Thailand after one of the longest and most punishing deployments in recent US military history. More than 5,000 sailors and Marines are expected to

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