Interlocking directorates of the new imperialism
In trying to understand the extraordinary
performance with regard to Sri Lanka of the present and the last UN
High Commissioners for Human Rights, I am reminded constantly of
what I was told by the previous Indian Ambassador to the Human
Rights Council. When we were discussing the excessive number of UN
employees from the West, he noted that, apart from that community of
interests, they most of them came from the same sort of background.
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Revisit and re-learn are as important as reduce, reuse and
recycle
One of the most interesting things about staying
with my grandparents in Kurunegala during school holidays was the
opportunity to read back issues of the Reader’s Digest. The late
nineteen seventies was still too early for me to see ‘propaganda’. I
was more interested in the ‘light’ pages of the Reader’s Digest:
‘Laughter is the Best Medicine,’ ‘All in a Day’s Work,’ ‘Life in
these United States’ and ‘Word Power’ anyway. I did enjoy ‘Drama in
Real Life’ and also the human-interest stories.
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Birthday tribute to Dr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa:
Reflections on a patriotic legend of our times
Think of all the millions of innocent people who
died in this bloody century because democracies reacted too late to
evil and aggression. Because, the duty of the Defence Secretary was
well performed, the past is gone not with helpless indignation, but
with a hopeful affirmation of human dignity and human rights for the
2010. In a world too divided by fear among people of different
racial, ethnic and religious groups, he has given confidence to the
friends of freedom and pause to those who would exploit human
difference for inhuman purposes.
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