Mahanama, a Buddhist monk, the younger son of King Dhathusena, observing two groups of people in the 5th century A.D. – Hindus, speaking Tamil and the converts (Buddhists) speaking the new language ...

Each new Middle East crisis is one of a kind, similar to the previous ones – both in the sense of its impact on the region itself and on outside world. In 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser ...

I found out about the death of William Calley from his obituary this week on the front page of Washington Post. It was followed by another in the New York Times. Calley passed away months ago in what ...

Boris Yeltsin and his “free market reformers” were part of one of the most hidden and most criminal looting operations in CIA history. It was the rape of Russia by a corrupted circle of treasonous ...

According to Kenya’s Ministry of Health, by September 2022, at least 54 percent of women in the country had access to contraceptives, and the use of modern methods of family planning had increased ...

We often hear in the public debate of the need to invigorate the production economy in order to drive economic growth. Most often proponents of the production economy refer to a need for ...

Thanks to the European Parliament's publication of a report on the interception of private and commercial communications by American intelligence agencies, many American espionage cases have been ...

The Syrian conflict has never been merely about territory—it is a profound struggle for the very identity of a nation, and a theatre for the ambitions of global powers. Assad’s survival or demise will ...

In today’s world, where global economic integration and regional cooperation are deepening, economic and trade cooperation between countries has become not only an important driving force for economic ...

Sri Lanka has no officially accepted regional/rural development policy in black and white, but it is not a new phenomenon like in most other developing countries. The government’s support for it has ...

To escape the shackles of dollarization, Global South countries have a perilous path to walk. The major problems, as described by political economists Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai, are as follows: ...

Don't saw off the branch you are sitting on! by Rohana R. Wasala Two stalwarts of the JVP-led National People’s Power (NPP) alliance, Dr Harini Amarasuriya MP and Mr Tilvin Silva, JVP General ...