Sri Lanka’s opposition United National Party (UNP) has accused the government of failing to provide Thai Deputy Prime Minister Suphajee Suthumpun with appropriate diplomatic protocol and security during her visit to the
Xinhua) — “Most of the time, foreign interference came from a friendly and allied country: the United States. For instance, I, along with (former French) President (Nicolas) Sarkozy, was under surveillance for
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In early 2023, India surpassed China as the most populous country in the world with the latter having 850,000 fewer people by the end of 2022—marking the country’s first population decline since famine
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“Today, the countries of the South do not have to submit to the dynamics of the world economy organized by the North,” declared Peruvian political scientist Monica Bruckmann at the opening panel of the
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Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel will go on an open-ended hunger strike on September 14 to protest against the recent restrictions imposed by Israel. According to the Supreme Emergency Committee of the Prisoner
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The Egyptian government continues its persecution of activists and critics despite the so-called national dialogue initiated earlier this year to address the political and economic issues raised by the opposition. On September
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Imagine this scenario. On 11 September 1973, the reactionary sections of the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet and given a green light by the US government, did not leave their
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday failed to yield a breakthrough in the revival of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, according to experts. Following
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To steady my memories of the origins of Critical Inquiry in Chicago in the 1970s I consulted a magisterial book, John W. Boyer’s The University of Chicago: A History (2015). It reminded
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by Tikur Netsanet “The worst-case scenario is unfolding in Ethiopia,” Gabriel Bizuneh tells me, as he organizes in the Ethiopian community in Washington, D.C. Once again, the federal government is at war
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The twentieth century saw the emergence of public funded universities and technical institutions, while technology development was concentrated in the R&D laboratories of large corporations. The age of the lone inventor—Edison, Siemens,
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EDITORIAL TEAM OF SRI LANKA GUARDIAN In a scathing open letter addressed to Channel 4, we, Sri Lanka Guardian as an independent and volunteer-based media entity, have demanded accountability for what it
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Following excerpts adapted from the latest United Nations Human Rights Commissioner’s report on Sri Lanka Published today, 6th September 2023 Sri Lanka is still facing a difficult economic, social and political situation.
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Sri Lanka suffers from a continuing accountability deficit – be it for war crime atrocities, more recent human rights violations, corruption, or abuse of power – which must be addressed for the
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CLICK HERE TO READ PART 2 OF THIS SERIES by Special Correspondent A few days ago, this writer posed a critical question to an Islamic scholar of Sri Lankan heritage, now residing
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(Xinhua) — In recent years, America has gone to great lengths to retain its global hegemony by stifling the development of other countries, say, China. Washington does this in a myriad number
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