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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...
Continue reading »Reflections on Human Rights (Part I): The Promises of Universalism and Tyrannies of Relativism?
[Authors note: I invite the readers of my article to suggest creative and strategic ways to reconcile the universal and...
Continue reading »The Battle of the ‘Commons’ and (De) militarizing the Sri Lankan Society – Part 2
Continued from The Battle of the ‘Commons’ and (De) militarizing the Sri Lankan Society – Part 1 Militarization is a...
Continue reading »The Battle of the ‘Commons’ and (De) militarizing the Sri Lankan Society – Part 1
“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Benjamin Franklin...
Continue reading »Manufacturing of a ‘Common Candidate’ and Our Collective Political (Un)Conscious
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent...
Continue reading »President’s Birthday, General’s Resignation and the Angulimala Piritha
“Victory breeds hatred, the defeated lives in pain. Happily the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat.” — Dhammapada 121)...
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