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November 5, 2026
Columns/Geopolitics

Thoughts on the Midterm Elections

The Democrats may have taken control of the House and the Senate, they may have humiliated Donald Trump and the Republican Party, but the real fight is only beginning. It is not

Columns/Geopolitics

Unprecedented Blue Wave: Is Trump’s Political Dominance Crumbling?

The Democratic Party has flipped the House and the Senate. While there are still votes left to be counted and races yet to be determined, the Democrats’ victory is unambiguously big – at least 54 Senate seats and approximately 258

November 5, 2026

The Anti-Corruption Myth: NPP Faces Its Own Reckoning

Politics/Sri Lanka

Successive pre-Aragalaya governments appointed Presidential Commissions of Inquiry (PCoI) as well as various other committees for specific purposes to dissipate pressure from contentious issues.

The Monster Is Falling, but Is America Entering a New Crisis?

Editorials/Geopolitics

Editorial As voting entered its most consequential moment, Donald Trump may have recognised the political damage awaiting his party. On Election Day, he announced

Lula never left Brazil’s centre stage

November 2, 2022
Brazil/Politics

The former president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, popularly known as Lula, has won the country’s presidential election by an incredibly narrow margin of 50.90% of the vote against his right-wing rival

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Criticism and free speech not welcome

November 2, 2022
Columns/Politics

Imagine former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee when alive or former Party President Rajnath Singh being removed from a BJP Chintan Shivir presided over by PM Modi. Unthinkable. Wrong. It is possible

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Life and times in England today?

November 2, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

There is so much going on in England that it is hardly necessary to describe the plight of the British. One of Cornwall’s most beautiful beaches was unrecognisable at the weekend after

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How Europe Has Navigated Its Energy Crises

October 25, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

While European energy prices have eased slightly in recent months, stress continues to build across a continent that has long been dependent on access to cheap Russian energy. Protests related to high

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Europe: Shrinking Within

October 24, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

Absolutely remarkable, Western media’s determination to ignore the recent Baltic Sea detonations, which knocked out the Nord Stream I and II gas pipelines. A major piece of Europe’s energy infrastructure, the joint

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Sri Lanka: Politics beyond 22

October 23, 2022
Columns/Politics

“You are in the end – what you are.” ~ Goethe (Faust) 22 is not perfect. Far from it, perhaps light-years far. Yet, in a season of defeats and setbacks, it is

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Sri Lanka: Political Prescription to 22A

October 21, 2022
Columns/Politics

Following article is based on the speech made by the author at the parliament during the second reading of Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution Bill It was expected that this Bill would

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India: Agniveer is killing regiment traditions

October 19, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

Gorkha Training Centres, like other training establishments, where recruits are trained have been out of work for more than two years as recruitment was suspended due to COVID though it was possible

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Charting the Rise of Anti-French Sentiment Across Northern Africa

October 18, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

In November 2021, a French military convoy was making its way to Mali while passing through Burkina Faso and Niger. It did not get very far. It was stopped in Téra, Niger,

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Kashmir: A Hungry Tiger Fights Fierce

October 16, 2022
Columns/Politics

It is a centuries old truth that ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’ but in the Indian Occupied Kashmir, the administrative authorities are trying their utmost to keep the apples

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XI Jinping and Putin are now the villains of peace

October 16, 2022
Columns/Politics

There seem to be a number of things in common between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin.  Whatever may be the electoral practice in  China and Russia, Xi Jinping and

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Brazil’s Lula Reemerges — in a Very Different Political World

October 11, 2022
Columns/Politics

Brazil’s first round of elections, held on October 2, yielded a major victory for the man who held the presidency from 2003 to 2010, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Winning 48 percent

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Act Now: Our Oceans Are Going to Fill with Plastic

October 11, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

As the private transportation sector shifts focus to batteries, biofuels, and green hydrogen, fossil fuel stakeholders have been seeking new avenues of revenue in the petrochemical industry in general, and in plastics

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Truss’s U-turn and Rajapaksa’s Downturn

October 5, 2022
Politics

“In a year of scarcity…Louis XV was hunting, as usual, in the forest of Sénart. He met a peasant carrying a bier and inquired… ‘For a man or a woman? A man.

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Is Canada Providing Free Run for Separatists and Terrorists?

October 5, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

It is well recognized all over the world that Canada is a glorious country with vast and beautiful landscapes, considerable natural and mineral resources and many attractive tourist spots. Given these reasons,

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