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Category Archives: Sri Lanka
Reawakening of Global South makes NAM relevant again; first test is Gaza
By Ameen IzzadeenThe Non-Aligned Movement, once a beacon of hope for a more just and equitable world, is holding its 19th summit in Kampala. But does anyone care? The last summit was held in Azerbaijan in October 2019, months before … Continue reading
Posted in Political analysis, Sri Lanka
Tagged Ali Sabry, ameen izzadeen, Azerbaijan, Baku, BRICS, Falklands, Gaza, Global South, Kampala, NAM, Non-aligned Movement, Sri Lanka, strategic alignment, Uganda
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Multiple takeaways in President’s Deutsche Welle onslaught
By Ameen IzzadeenIn President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s verbal blitzkrieg during his October 4 interview with Germany’s public broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, slamming the Western media’s prejudice against the global south, there are many takeaways. They relate to politics and media studies, among … Continue reading
Exhaustive public debate needed before regulating social media
By Ameen IzzadeenLike everything we use, there is good and bad in social media. The knife saves lives if used by a surgeon, but it can take a life if used by a killer. Similarly, social media, like fire, carries … Continue reading
Canada-India row: Look, who’s casting the first stone
By Ameen IzzadeenPolitics is a killing field where no one is a saint and human rights are a sham. The accuser is no better than the accused. Every country has its share of blood on its hands. Such thoughts may … Continue reading
Posted in Political analysis, Sri Lanka
Tagged a, ameen izzadeen, Canada India, global justice, Khalistan, Libya, Nijjar, RAW, Sikh
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Easter attacks: Channel 4 bombshell and people’s right to truth
By Ameen IzzadeenWhere light is absent, darkness becomes realityWhere the truth is absent, falsehood becomes historyThose who are uncomfortable with the truth may try to accuse Britain’s Channel 4 television of pedalling lies through their Tuesday night programme on Sri … Continue reading
Posted in Sri Lanka
Tagged ameen izzadeen, Easter Sunday attacks, global justice, Gotabaya, Oscar Romera, Suresh Salley, terrorism
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Is Govt. shooting blanks in fight against rising gun violence?
By Ameen IzzadeenAdding to the people’s despair in a bankrupt country are regular reports of gun violence. Last Saturday, TV channels and news websites posted CCTV footage of a shooting incident in the Negombo wholesale fish market. A young man … Continue reading
Posted in Sri Lanka
Tagged ameen izzadeen, global justice, gun crimes, gun violence, small arms proliferation, Sri Lanka
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13th Amendment: Power devolution and beyond
By Ameen IzzadeenTo rekindle the devolution-debate fire in a country that has still not come out of the economic bankruptcy may appear to be out of sync. Since devolution of power is linked to political stability, which in turn is … Continue reading
Posted in Sri Lanka
Tagged 13th amendment, ameen izzadee, Chelvanayakam, Cyberwarfare, global justice, nationalism, Power devolution, Sri Lanka war
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Geopolitics behind President’s delayed visit to New India
By Ameen IzzadeenWhen Ranil Wickremesinghe set foot in India yesterday for the first time since he assumed power as Sri Lanka’s president, it was not to celebrate the completion of his first year in office. The business is geopolitics.He arrived … Continue reading
Posted in Political analysis, Sri Lanka
Tagged Act East, India-Lanka, Narendra Modi, Quad, Ranil, Ranil Wickremesinghe
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Brain drain amidst anomie in Sri Lanka
Courtesy shutterstock.com By Ameen IzzadeenA one-day breakdown in the system in the passport office creates chaotic scenes, with thousands of applicants for new travel documents refusing to leave the premises despite pleas that they will be given priority the next … Continue reading
Posted in Sri Lanka
Tagged ameen izzadeen, anomie, brain drain, durkheim, global justice, IMF, normlessness, Robert Merton, sociology
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Lanka’s Independence and the neocolonialist ‘dependence’ trap
By Ameen IzzadeenDependence is embedded in independence. This is the paradox we need to address as Sri Lanka prepares to celebrate its 75th anniversary of Independence tomorrow amid an unprecedented economic crisis. Ironically, the origin of the economic crisis could … Continue reading
Posted in Sri Lanka
Tagged ameen izzadeen, colonialism, dependency theory, global justice, Gunder Frank, Independence, NAM, neo-colonialism, UNCTAD
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