Why swallow Western propaganda on Zimbabwe?
Twenty years after the 1980 liberation from
White-rule some 4500 White farmers owned 70 percent of the best
farmlands in the country. Thus, since March 2000, a group of war
veterans of Mugabe ZANU-PF ruling party has occupied many
White-owned farms claiming this as their dividends for fighting the
war of liberation.
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Bad policies brewed a ‘Perfect Storm’
When the Cold War ended following the collapse
of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent dismantling of the
Soviet Union, there was widespread political euphoria about de-militarisation,
global peace, a decline in military spending and economic
prosperity.
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The anatomy of a damp squib
In the history of left wing politics in Sri
Lanka never has so much been promised, so loud and for so long and
hardly anything achieved, as we saw last Thursday when the JVP-UNP
alliance launched its one-day strike. To the JVP it was like a
passing out parade in the field of trade unionism, demonstrating its
dominance in a field where once the old parties of the left help
sway
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Where small is not beautiful
Raking my ageing cerebral cortex for subject
matter to enliven (or torment?) the readers, I noticed that a fairly
generous portion of it has been devoted to “heretical” thoughts.
Hence, the title of this column. Heretical, however, is only in
relation to my milieu and not heretical per se.
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