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Aboriginal Reverse Racism? Dhanushka Uswatte assaulted in Adelaide
I: Letter from Eshantha Ariyadasa to Roberts, 21 May 2013 Dear Sir, I am Eshantha Ariyadasa, presently a research higher degree student at Flinders University in South Australia. This is to inform you… more →
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Vulgarity on Rise in Turkish Political Discourse
wrote 21 hours ago: “The fact of the matter is that the negative and vulgar language of politics in Turkey begins … more →
Aboriginal Reverse Racism? Dhanushka Uswatte assaulted in Adelaide
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wrote 1 day ago: I: Letter from Eshantha Ariyadasa to Roberts, 21 May 2013 Dear Sir, I am Eshantha Ariyadasa, present … more →
Global Constitutionalism: The Search for Common Ground in a Global World
wrote 3 days ago: I Introducing our Camel It is common in popular parlance to speak of the straw that broke the camel’ … more →
Pragmatic Action & Enchanted Worlds: A Black Tiger Rite of Commemoration
wrote 4 days ago: Michael Roberts, … a reprint of an article in Social Analysis, Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 2 … more →
Standing in Witness
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wrote 6 days ago: Pastors are told all the time that we shouldn’t be political, or at least this pastor hears it. It i … more →
Man I feel like a....Man?!
wrote 1 week ago: Diane Abbot will give a speech tomorrow to discuss the ‘crisis of masculinity’ she feels … more →
Language and National Identity: The Sinhalese and Others over the Centuries
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wrote 1 week ago: Michael Roberts, reprinting an article published in 2003 in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Summer … more →
A Story of Southern Sinhala Recalcitrance: How the Devolution Gestures of 1981-83 moved NOWHERE
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wrote 1 week ago: S. Sivathasan in the Sunday Leader,13 May 2013 When the Jaffna Development Council started functioni … more →
A People Without a Story: the Lankan Tamils
wrote 1 week ago: Aatish Taseer, courtesy of SUNDAY, where the title is “a People without a Story” celebr … more →
Julie Bishop pulverizes ABC's prejudiced misinformation
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wrote 1 week ago: SEE http://www.juliebishop.com.au/transcripts/1277-abc-24-the-world-with-jane-hutcheon.html : … more →
At the Union of Citizens, Media, and Democracy: An Examination of Exposure to Political Difference on Social Network Sites
wrote 2 weeks ago: “If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wro … more →
The BBS That My Mother Likes = An Emblem for the Sri Lankan Equivalent of Middle America
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Darshanie Ratnawalli courtesy of the Nation and the Colombo Telegraph, with the latter drawing a vo … more →
Introducing “Numbers Game” – A Detailed Study of the Last Stages of Eelam War IV
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Michael Roberts …. See http://www.scribd.com/doc/132499266/The-Numbers-Game-Politics-of-Retributive- … more →
Why I Admire A Man So Many People Hate
wrote 3 weeks ago: I have articulated my frustration with politics many times before. I will not be doing so again righ … more →
An Australian Editor's Advice: "Keep Sri Lanka in the Fold"
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Editorial in The Australian, 29 April 2013 FORMER prime minister Malcolm Fraser and Greens senator L … more →
The dark charisma of Adolf Hitler
wrote 3 weeks ago: SEE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG4YMNg_viw Pic from the Library of C0ngress Adolf Hitler seemed … more →
What the Hell is going on with our economy?
wrote 3 weeks ago: If you’ve ever asked yourself or others the above question, as I have … then keep readin … more →
An appraisal of the concept of a traditional Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Gerald H. Peiris, reprint from Ethnic Studies Report, Vol.IX, No.1, January1991 Among the various e … more →
Bodu Bala Sena and the global context of Islamophobia
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wrote 4 weeks ago: Chandre Dharmawardana The Bodu-Bala Sena (BBS) is a political movement crystallizing mainly around S … more →
