Washington consensus and current ‘meltdown’
The current “meltdown” as I said in an earlier
post has root causes as in the case of poverty, and terrorism, and
must be clinically examined and then treated.
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Random Thoughts
Queen Victoria and the name she left behind
It’s a bit of a mystery how dictionaries come to
tell us that the name victorian, being the designation of the long
reign Queen Victoria ruled, is associated with things like prudery,
stuffiness, middle class respectability, moral strictness, old
fashioned ideas and out dated beliefs For these are the very things,
it may be said, she fought against.
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LTTE never offered a future for Tamils
The writer worked in Sri Lanka between 1996 ad
2002 as correspondent for Jane’s Intelligence Review and the London
Daily Telegraph. He spoke to SPUR with his reaction to current
events in Sri Lanka. (Harris was forced to leave Sri Lanka in
November 2002 at 24 hours notice after the government of Ranil
Wickremesinghe pulled his journalist visa. Harris was critical of
the peace process with the LTTE).
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