This article by Ron Ridenour first appeared in the Havana Times. “Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere” is usually how I begin my talks in this three-week tour through several cities and four states of India. Martin Luther King’s famous quotation [...]
Reporters Without Borders and Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS), a network of exiled Sri Lankan journalists, announce the launch of an international appeal already signed by Noam Chomsky, Arundathi Roy, Ken Loach, Antony Loewenstein and Tariq Ali, asking [...]
The BBC has reported how, after a successful visit to Britain, during which he told the truth about the Sri Lankan government’s genocide against the Tamil people, supporters of Vickramabahu “Bahu” Karunaratne and some journalists were attacked at the Colombo [...]
As President Rajapakse poises to speak at the Oxford Union in an effort to ‘normalise’ his relations with the West, it is great opportunity for us to highlight the truth of his Regime’s War Crimes. Act Now members will be [...]
Eva Golinger is known for her counter-intelligence analysis in the service of Venezuela’s peaceful revolution against the local oligarchy and the United States Empire. She is a noted author (“The Chavez Code: Cracking US intervention in Venezuela”). A dual citizen [...]
Presidential Election 2010 Why vote Dr. Vickramabahu ? Below is the text of an appeal for signatures to support the electoral campaign of Vickramabahu Karunaratne, better known as Bahu. He is the only candidate in the election calling for self [...]
I fear that the attitude of supporters of the Tamil cause towards Latin America is rather subjective, and that their approach is still sentimental. I will come to that later in my response, but, before that, the Tamil nationalist, especially [...]
“The impunity with which the Sri Lankan government is able to commit these crimes [referring to 2009 war atrocities, including brutal internment of 300,000 Tamils] actually unveils the deeply ingrained racist prejudice that is precisely what led to the marginalization [...]
The Geneva Declaration on Terrorism, passed May 29, 1987 by the UN general assembly, points out that the main perpetrators of terrorism are governments striving to keep down parts of their populations or other peoples. In this document, at that [...]
“At independence, in 1948, the new political elite, in its rush for power, cultivated ethnic support in a society whose real imperative should have been the eradication of poverty. Language became the spark,” journalist-documentary filmmaker John Pilger recently wrote. (12) [...]
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