By Charles.S.Perera  Barrack Obama knows how to use words making  phrases which are beautiful  and inspiring. However, his words do not match his deeds.  He had said, ” And when I am President, we will end this war in Iraq and bring our troops home; we will finish the job against al Qaeda in Afghanistan; […]

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 Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 10 January 2014 Hon. Tom Mulcair, MP, Leader of the NDP Leader of the Opposition,  House of Commons, Ottawa cc. Paul Dewar, Foreign Affairs Critic for NDP;  Rathika Sitsabaeisan, Deputy Whip for NDP Dear Tom Mulcair: Re: Your Caucus Members, Paul Dewar and Rathika Sitsabaiesan […]

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Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Renowned Psychologists like William James, Carl Jung, and Eric Fromm saw much of value in Buddhist philosophy and its positive impact on mental health. The modern mental health clinicians have found incomparable therapeutic efficacy in Buddhist psychotherapy. Buddhist psychotherapy has become a major complementary therapeutic strategy in mental health. Recent research […]

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Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe We are in the middle of yet another visit by a US government official, Stephen J. Rapp, an Obama political appointee apparently supervising the unusual US version of “Global Criminal Justice”. The grandiose description of Rapp as an “ambassador-at-large”, appears to have been designed by the US state department – who seem […]

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By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island Sri Lanka’s post-war rehabiliation project to reintegrate former LTTE combatants into society has come in for criticism from the United States. The US has faulted President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government for releasing those who had fought for the LTTE without prosecuting them.  Ambassador-at-Large, Office of Global Criminal Justice, Stephen J. Rapp […]

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By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island Even though the US recommended that the Sri Lankan government swiftly acquire cluster bombs to target the LTTE, the country never felt the need to do so, an authoritative official told The Island. The US made the recommendation in the wake of the Oslo arranged Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) between the […]

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Shenali D Waduge  The ‘civilized’ world is shamelessly showing us how uncivilized it is by the extent of hypocrisies they commit and the lies they tell without even batting an eyelid. To cap it off they think they are God’s gift to mankind and doing the world a favour. Their lies have led to millions […]

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