By Gwynne Dyer First, three lies. The Gaza offensive has yielded “unprecedented military gains,” said Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz. The ceasefire on Friday amounted to...
By Ryan Cooper President Biden surprised the world when his administration came out in favour of an intellectual property waiver for coronavirus vaccines. The US is...
by Selvam Canagaratna “On Monday morning, May 17th, the US Supreme Court that it will reconsider the constitutional prohibition against abortion bans before fetal viability,” wrote...
by Rohan Wijesinha As at May 5, 2021, many as 118 wild elephants had died this year, thus far; that is almost a death a day....
Undoubtedly, the greatest significance of the Vesak Poya in May is that the three most important events of Siddartha Gautama’s life occurred on this day six...
by Dr Nihal D Amerasekera My story begins more than a 100 years ago when the sun never set on the British Empire. As rulers they...
by Rajan Philips The government may have wanted to change the political channel from gloomy pandemic news to hopefully sunshine Port City news. Instead, the government...
by Gamini Seneviratne Over 50 years ago in the aftermath of what is miscalled a six-day “war” through which the heavily armed Israeli armed forces slaughtered...
by Aparna Halpé I was mingling with the audience at a poetry reading in Toronto, where I had been reading some of my new poems, when...
by Kumar David Though paper money was invented in China during the Song Dynasty in the 11th century it is fast phasing out in consumer transactions;...