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100,000 Sri Lankan Monkeys Threaten the Yankee Dollar
World
100,000 Sri Lankan Monkeys Threaten the Yankee Dollar
April 20, 2023

Whether the Chinese want to eat them, use them as lab rats or put them into zoos, the sheer scale of this order shows that China is now a major player in the monkey business.

Declan Hayes
Third World Problems, Coming Your Way
May 14, 2022

The West is facing a systematic crisis both economically and socially and it appears to have no solutions but more money printing and war. Neither of which will help.

Eamon McKinney
Third World Problems, Coming Your Way
Society
Two Opposite Ways of Interpreting Wars and International Relations
Security
Two Opposite Ways of Interpreting Wars and International Relations
September 7, 2019

In the US-and-allied nations, the standard way of interpreting wars and international relations is archetypally exemplified by the internationally respected award-winning American war-journalist Marie Colvin.

Eric Zuesse
Clash of Civilizations 2.0 Sponsored by Prince and Bannon
April 26, 2019

Bannon, Prince, and other far-rightists are now attempting to impose on their followers and fellow-travelers the same sort of “groupthink” Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels applied to Germany.

Wayne Madsen
Clash of Civilizations 2.0 Sponsored by Prince and Bannon
Security
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‘Easter Worshippers’ and the Left’s Allergy to Language
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‘Easter Worshippers’ and the Left’s Allergy to Language
April 25, 2019

The Left in this country has a serious problem: they don’t want to talk about religion and are particularly allergic to the phrase “Islamic terrorism.” On Easter Sunday, Catholic churches and international hotels across Sri Lanka were targeted by radical Islamist suicide bombers. In a stunning display of how far the Left’s allergy has spread, former president Barack Obama, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and former HUD secretary Julián Castro all tweeted condolences to “Easter worshippers.”

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CIA Meddles in US Election As it Has in Countless Foreign Polls
December 18, 2016

Never has the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency so blatantly involved itself in an American election. However, the agency has a rich history of interfering in the elections of other nations, including Russia. The conclusions of an undisclosed CIA secret report on alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election has been summarily dismissed by the Director of National Intelligence, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and several retired U.S. intelligence officers as deeply flawed and a propaganda tool concocted by the highly-politicized CIA director John Brennan and his cronies…

Wayne Madsen
CIA Meddles in US Election As it Has in Countless Foreign Polls
World
China’s ‘win-win’ diplomacy riles India
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China’s ‘win-win’ diplomacy riles India
July 6, 2015

The Sri Lankan government has cleared one more Chinese project – the expressway linking the southern port city of Hambantota with Matara, which will be the second phase of the previous Chinese-funded project that connects Matara with Colombo. This was one of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s pet projects – connecting his hometown with the capital.

The Lankan Transition Resets Indian Ocean Politics (II)
January 14, 2015

…The Anglo-American sponsorship of the ‘regime change’ in Sri Lanka means that the West is no longer a discontented party looking in but has become an active player… But the key question in regional politics will be: How far do the Anglo-American interests and Indian interests converge over Sri Lankan developments?.. No doubt, Britain’s recent return to the ‘east of Suez’ (following the establishment of a military base in Bahrain) prompts London to regain its traditional influence over the political elites in Colombo… For the US, of course, Sri Lanka is situated between Diego Garcia and the Malacca Straits; it straddles the sea-lanes of the Indian Ocean through which China conducts the bulk of its foreign trade (including imports of oil)…

Melkulangara Bhadrakumar
The Lankan Transition Resets Indian Ocean Politics (II)
World
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