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Author: Dr Ameer Ali

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Colombo, Human Rights, International, justice, Politics and Governance

Sri Lanka, the West and Arabs on Palestine

When the entire Global North led by a sociopath US president whose cognitive capacity is under media scrutiny, has thrown its unreserved support behind Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s IDF to cleanse…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 05/09/2025
Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Arab Counter Plan for Gaza: An Exercise in Futility

Gaza, a thriving cosmopolitan trading town along Via Maris trade route between Egypt and Turkey until 1948, became the Gaza Strip since then and remained the largest refugee camp for two million…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 02/25/202502/25/2025
Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

President Donald Trump’s Gaza Riviera: Madness or Calculated Ploy?

To Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his circle of Zionists, not to mention the Christian evangelists in the US, US President Donald Trump’s announcement to acquire the Gaza Strip – a…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 02/13/2025
International, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

President Donald Trump, Oil and Palestine

The second term of President Donald Trump, a convicted felon and a man of contradictions with fascist traits, is proving to be a bonanza to American billionaires and corporate moguls and disaster…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 02/05/2025
Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Deadly Desires of Demagogic Twins

US president-elect Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the demagogic twins, seem to be on parallel paths with deadly desires to expand the borders of their respective countries. While Trump wants…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 01/20/202501/20/2025
Human Rights, International, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

From Gaza to Syria Israel Runs Amok

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now an international outlaw and a fugitive under the protection of US. All international institutions including the UN General Assembly (UNGA), UN Security Council (UNSC), International…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 12/23/202412/23/2024
Colombo, Human Rights, International, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

NPP Government and Palestine Day

“Global Palestine” has brought together once again numerous segments of humanity in different parts of the world to demonstrate their unflinching support for the people of Palestine whose only crime against “Global…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 11/29/2024
Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Netanyahu’s Insulting Middle Finger to ICC’s Arrest Warrants

After Israel’s genocidal rampage in Gaza since October 7, 2023, which has killed nearly 44,000 “human animals” and “cockroaches” in the words of Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 11/25/2024
Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

US Imperialism Drives Middle East War

(Lenin) (General Alexander Haig, American Secretary of State) It is little over one year since Hamas fired those deadly rockets on Israel as mark of its violent struggle to liberate Gaza from…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 10/19/2024
Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Global Israel Poses Global Threat

Global Israel is a name coined by the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe in his latest book and it refers to “a coalition that includes most governments, mainstream media and some parts of…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 10/07/2024
Human Rights, International, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

ICJ’s Verdict on Israel and its Consequences

The 83 page detailed and damning report by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands since 1967 must clear all remaining doubts on the illegality of that…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 07/29/2024
Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

ICC Warrants and ICJ’s Order: Do They Matter?

The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan has requested a panel of three ICC judges to issue arrest warrants on five people, Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant of Israel and Yahya…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 05/29/2024
Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

US Campus Eruptions and Corporate Military Capitalism

“(Herbert Marcuse) In the 1960s universities and colleges in US became the epicentre of anti-war protests against indiscriminate US bombing and destruction in Vietnam and Cambodia and those protests soon spread to…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 05/01/202405/01/2024
Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

US-Israel Faustian Bargain

Silvia Federici (Counterpunch, 12 March 2024).    Magen David is the Hebrew name for the Shield of David or more commonly known as the Star of David. Like the European Crusaders marching…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 03/19/202403/19/2024
Colombo, International, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Middle East Madness and Militias

US President Joe Biden ordered more than 85 targets at seven facilities, four in Syria and three in Iraq, which were suspected to be habitats of Iranian backed militias to be bombed,…

Dr Ameer Ali Dr Ameer Ali on 02/13/2024

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