Trump’s threat to annex Canada flows from the Monroe Doctrine.
As the author of the Monroe Doctrine, President James Monroe, did in 1823, Donald Trump is now citing an external threat to justify US dominance over Canada and the whole of the Western Hemisphere
Thambithurai Muthukumarasamy’s journey from Jaffna student activism to global human rights advocacy
Muthukumarasamy, who was 17 when he, along with other Jaffna University students, was arrested for joining the Tamil struggle and eventually became a global campaigner of human rights, died in Washington DC on January 19.
Priorities for Sri Lanka in a fading international order
By P M Amza/Colombo Telegraph Colombo, January 31- The world is entering a period in which the foundational assumptions of the post-1945 international order no longer hold. Mechanisms that once anchored global stability are eroding; international law, long regarded as a shield for small states,...
Foreign powers’ stakes in Bangladesh parliamentary elections
India and the US are manipulating contesting parties to secure post-election advantages
Sex education for school kids necessary to curb child abuse
By P.K.Balachandran/Counterpoint Colombo, January 26 – Earlier this month, sex education in schools became a subject of serious concern in Sri Lanka following the discovery of a link to an adult website in the course module prescribed for Grade 6 English students. The controversy was...
Trump’s Board of Peace aims at replacing the UN and establishing US overlordship
By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Colombo, January 25 – US President Donald Trump’s policies and actions in the first year of his second term show his disdain for national and international protocols and commitments. He has set in motion processes and policies that would not only take...
The multiple objectives of Trump’s Greenland gamble
Donald Trump’s objectives in Greenland are to shed America’s long-standing responsibility for the defence of Europe exercised through NATO, politically de-link the US from Europe, become the sole gatekeeper of the Northern Sea Route, being eyed by rivals Russia and China, and secure the sole...
Wise counsel for makers of Bangladesh’s foreign policy
National interest should be pursued without needlessly antagonising any power as all powers are required for peace, stability and progress
Why is Trump opposing UK’s Diego Garcia deal with Mauritius?
The deal runs counter to Trump’s contention that only outright ownership ensures security, an argument he has made to seek full sovereignty over Greenland in preference to a treaty with Denmark on its use by the US without sovereign rights
Trump announces Greenland ‘Framework,’ backing off force and tariffs
By EurActiv January 22 — US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had reached a framework of a deal that satisfies him on Greenland, as he backed down both on threats to seize the island by force from Denmark and on imposing tariffs against European...
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