Ceylon Today 11 August 2024
Sri Lankans can pat themselves on the pat, though quietly or only in their minds. Decorum demands that any loud expression of self-appreciation over the Aragalaya setting the precedent for Bangladesh to follow in the shared...
By Sreekala Sivasankaran
The news came in the morning that Queenie Hallegua, the vibrant Jewish community leader in the Mattancheri Jew Town passed away on Sunday (August 11, 2024). She was 89. Eight years ago, when I interviewed her for...
On Monday, August 5, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina boarded a Bangladesh Air Force C-130J military transport in a hurry and fled to Hindon Air Force base, outside Delhi. Her plane was refueled and reports said that she intended...
Bangladesh has plunged into a severe political crisis, marked by the resignation and flight of a long-time prime minister Sheikh Hasina amid a mass uprising against her increasingly authoritarian rule. The unrest, which began as student-led protests against a...
by Richard D. Wolff
Photo by Markus Spiske
Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language so far as to literally equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably. No matter...
Every society looks for a reliable, mature and protective type of leadership. The leadership circle of the past has guided their country by combining different strategic versions in the Renaissance political environment of the time and situation. In the...
THE coming to power of governments led by fascists is either a reality or a threat today over large parts of the world. In Europe at present there are several countries where fascists are leading governments; France was on...
Ted Christopher
The unfolding problems with science’s materialist understanding of life are obviously noteworthy in and of themselves, but the associated potential support for dualistic/religious beliefs is particularly significant. Beyond a number of behavioral conundrums, the general problem facing the...
“I scroll, therefore I am” ~ James LadymanIn the age of virtual realities, social media and artificial intelligence, the resurgence of certain new forms of Cartesian scepticism profoundly challenges our understanding of reality and what it means to be...
Joachim Bromand
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s remarks on contradictions and paradoxes have been met with incomprehension and have fueled the widespread and long-standing prejudice that his later thoughts on the foundations of logic and mathematics are the “surprisingly insignificant product of a...
