by Our Correspondent in Geneva In the hallowed halls of Geneva, Channel 4’s documentary makers faced unsettling questions about their allegations, met with a wall of silence. Their recent documentary, which delved
“Too many things have happened that weren’t supposed to happen and what was supposed to come about has not.” ~ Wyslawa Szymborska – The Century’s Decline For a few hours in early
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Do conservative and liberal brains work differently? What once might have been a semi-serious topic for kitchen-table discussions of political differences has burgeoned into a lively area of research for neural scientists.
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GUEST POST by Daya Gamage Six weeks after the September 11 attacks on American soil, the U.S. Congress passed the “USA/Patriot Act,” nation’s hurried surveillance laws that expanded the government’s authority to
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Following excerpts adapted from the editorial published in New York Post Who announces a presidential campaign at dawn? Joe Biden’s early-morning video was as vacuous as his 2020 basement campaign — and
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by Gajaya In my opinion, it would be fitting to compose a brief narrative about the Easter attack that ought to remain in our memories. Today marks the fourth anniversary of that
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by Our Political Affairs Editor “Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the presence of justice and harmony.” – Speech delivered at the Non-Aligned Movement Summit, Colombo, August 1976.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. —Lao Tzu We welcome President Ranil Wickramasinghe’s
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Editorial “The United States needs to be humble if it wants to be a force for good in the world. It needs to recognize that its democratic values and practices are not
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Sri Lanka’s seventeenth IMF agreement sealed last week may well prove to be the most devastating one of them all. The reason is that the agreement comes along with Sri Lanka having
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by Jude “If we want to make peace with the other, we must first make peace with ourselves.” – Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf With failing economic policies, a botched withdrawal from Afghanistan
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