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Electoral Changes at This Juncture: Stabbing with A Golden Knife
The claims and doubts of the current Opposition parties that the SLPP led government under President Ranil Wickremesinghe was planning to delay the elections for the…
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From Middle to Low Income: A New Low of Self-degradation
The Cabinet this week will take up a proposal to voluntarily downgrade Sri Lanka from a Middle- Income Country to a Low-Income country in a bid…
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An Indication of Economy Further Worsening
The gazette notification is further interesting as the new High Security Zones have been declared at a time when there is no threat to those areas…
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US Senate Resolution: How US Can Help SL Fight Economic Crimes?
Last week, four US Senators, led by Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez tabled a Senate resolution…
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Sri Lanka’s Left Turn
This year’s protests have revitalized the country’s socialists. But can they capitalize on that momentum electorally? The mass protests in Sri Lanka that led to the…
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The Credibility Crisis of New Electoral Alignments
In spite of any election being not around the corner and some including the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) arguing against holding elections at this…
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How Sri Lanka Can Overcome Its Economic Crisis
The government should take advantage of the crisis to do things that it could never attempt before, from addressing regressive subsidies to restructuring state-owned enterprises. Winston…
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Sri Lanka’s Lost People’s Revolution
Not only has the new President failed to provide a degree of accountability, but he is also indulging in a vicious witch-hunt against the activists who…
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Diaspora Investments Not to Come Soon
The highest number of organizations and individuals were listed during the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government on February 28 last year. It was 577 individuals and 18 entities…
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What Now for The Media?
The iconic GotaGoGama is winding down. The crowds have thinned out. The WhatsApp messages that used to flood the inbox have dried out. The foreign journalists…
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Policy Statement : The Proof of The Pudding is in The Eating
The policy statement delivered by President Ranil Wickremesinghe in Parliament on Wednesday was far ahead of the similar statements made by his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa in…
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Crackdown on Protests: What the Dickens is Happening?
Sri Lanka’s people-power movement is in tatters with the new government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe launching a crackdown on the protest movement’s frontline activists in what…