Ground war in Iran – Why Washington risks another Vietnam
By P M Amza/Colombo Telegraph Colombo, March 26 – The prospect of a United States ground war in Iran, once viewed as improbable, is now part of serious strategic debate. As tensions escalate across the Gulf and military operations deepen, the central question is no...
AI chatbots add to the epidemic of teenage violence in the US
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Colombo, March 17 – The United States is well known for many things, among them is the under-17s indulging in violence, including murder and mass shootings. Children are increasingly ill-mannered, whiny, selfish, arrogant, rude, defiant and violent, according to Psychology Today. Such...
Why is Buddhism shrinking worldwide?
By Yunping Tong/Dalia Fahmy/Conrad Hackett PEW Research Center, March 11 – Buddhists are the world’s only major religious group whose population shrank between 2010 and 2020, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of religion in 201 countries and territories. In 2010, an estimated...
Genocide, mass killings and expulsions – end result of a process
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Colombo, July 22– Before 2023, genocide was thought to be a feature of the 20 th.Century which saw mass killings in Nazi-dominated Europe, Cambodia, Yugoslavia and Ruanda. But Israel proved that it could be a 21 st. Century phenomenon too by its...
Myanmar, Thailand earthquake claims numerous lives, casualties set to rise
The 7.7-magnitude quake violently shook buildings a
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