Opinion

MCC grant must not become a lost opportunity

With elections on the horizon, one of the strongest criticisms of the Sri Lankan government has been that it failed to boost economic growth and bring development and prosperity in

G7: the cost of uselessness

THE G7 Summit is an obsolete, useless talking shop, as Finnian Cunningham so adroitly says. RT calls it The Unbearable Pointlessness of G7. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, and

Indian media’s sell-out on Kashmir

RECALLING the stellar role of the Indian media during the infamous internal Emergency imposed by the late Indira Gandhi, Lal Krishna Advani, the BJP patriarch now forcibly retired, famously noted:

Billionaires are a sign of economic failure

The New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled ‘abolish billionaires.’ The editorial raised a serious question: what if instead of being

The G7 countries look feeble

To think that the G7 is a serious body is to have lost one’s mind. THE G7 meetings seem — as each of them passes — to be a waste

Key to a sustainable economy is 5000 years old

WE ARE again reaching the point in the business cycle known as ‘peak debt,’ when debts have compounded to the point that their cumulative total cannot be paid. Student debt,

Kashmir’s woes are far from over

Shawdesh Desk: EVEN though India has finally annexed Kashmir, the war is far from over. I must sympathise with the Pakistanis holding the other part of Kashmir. They now face

A global emergency in the Amazon

Global solidarity with Brazil’s indigenous and environmental movements can make the difference at this critical moment. CALLED ‘the lungs of the earth’, the Amazon rainforest and its lush trees make