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Towards an Inclusive Constitution for Natural Justice
Image from Wall Street Journal The period that we have before us comprises the most motley mixture of crying contradictions:...
Continue reading »Appointment of the new Chief Justice in Sri Lanka: Resistance should continue
Photo by AFP/ Ishara S. Kodikara, via Arab News ‘We won’t allow you to let the judiciary go to hell....
Continue reading »Impeachment Misadventure and the Advent of the Spring in Sri Lanka
Photo courtesy Dawn, by AFP “Natural justice is a pledge of reciprocal benefit, to prevent one man from harming or...
Continue reading »The Parliamentary Select Committee is a mistrial: Annul the impeachment report
Photo courtesy The Hindu “Bonaparte throws the whole bourgeois economy into confusion, violates everything that seemed inviolable to the Revolution...
Continue reading »Black, Brown, and White Voters Could Think Alike: A Quest for a New Social Contract!
Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, courtesy Christian Science Monitor “They were striking at royalty, tyranny, reaction and oppression of all types,...
Continue reading »Reflections on the US Presidential Elections
Photo courtesy BBC The outcome of the United States Presidential elections is too close to call. Yet, three presidential debates...
Continue reading »It’s a long way to the Arab Spring in Sri Lanka. We are still stuck in the winter of our discontent!
Image from Ceasefire Magazine “Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of...
Continue reading »Sri Lanka For Sale: Wealth Creation by Dispossession
“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is...
Continue reading »The State Defense and City Development Ministry: From Utopia to Dystopia
Photo from RNW ‘Seek ye first the political kingdom, and all things shall be added unto you.’ Kwame Nkrumah (First...
Continue reading »UNP victory in Colombo Municipal Council: A Political Economy of the Numerics
In capitalist modernity ‘elections’ are a means by which disparate social interests are brought together and ruling class hegemony is...
Continue reading »Local Government Elections: In sending the UNP and JVP to political oblivion the nation may find hope?
Photo courtesy Sunday Leader “The starting point of [progressive] politics and the state is its categorical rejection of this view...
Continue reading »War Crimes Investigations in Sri Lanka: An Unpopular View
“In trying to do good, we have been living beyond our moral resources and have fallen into hypocrisy and self-righteousness”...
Continue reading »Mid-term elections: Why Obama Lost the House?
Photo courtesy Critical Narrative What defeated the Democrats in the mid-term elections was not a failure of Obama’s leadership, but...
Continue reading »Securing Media Freedom in National Security States
“Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.” Benjamin Franklin. “Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is...
Continue reading »From Politics of Fear to Politics of Hope
“The passion to be reckoned upon is fear.” Thomas Hobbes “The very act of voting is a joyful statement that...
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