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No Justice - No Nation & One Justice - One nation; By Basil Fernando

There is no other way to reestablish unity within Sri Lanka between races, between the people of the same race, between the state and the people and any other relationship within the nation. Read more>>>

Islam’s Legislation Regarding Woman’s Work

Women working in public are generally and specifically permitted as long it is within the limits of the legislation found in the Quran and Sunnah. While in Islam it is maintained that the basic and fundamental role of the woman in Islam is in the home, fulfilling her duty as a wife and a mother. Read more>>>

Sri Lankans hold a public meeting to defend WikiLeaks and Julian Assange

WikiLeaks is a simple and brilliantly effective concept and so it’s not surprising the way he has been prosecuted. All those who believe in freedom and democracy should fight against the attack on WikiLeaks. You can’t persecute a man for exposing the truth. Read more>>>

Misuse of Zakat collected Funds through mosques

It is interesting to note that some mosques who have collected Zakat for 15 years, cannot produce 1 beneficiary who has come out of poverty , let alone that he is Zakat payee. There is no records of how much Zakat was collected ( the figure varies within the board members) and to whom it was distributed. Read more>>>

Free SEMINAR for Women: 'RAISING A NATION'

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How Zionists Divide and Conquer

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Israeli Lawlessness & Oppression Continue

Helpless world simply watched the television footages of day, Israeli barbarity. A United Nations fact-finding report accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza. As usual the report is gathering dust in the UN shelves. Read more>>>

Northern Nigeria: Background to Conflict

The starting point for addressing the conflicts must be a better understanding of the historical, cultural and other contexts in which they take place. The region has experienced recurrent violence, particularly since the early 1980s. These are the product of several complex and inter-locking factors, including a volatile mix of historical grievances, political manipulation and ethnic and religious rivalries. Read more>>>

Ayodhya Verdict, Temple And Indian Nationalism

Ayodyah judgment also needs a relook form the same barometer of Indian legality and not RSS agenda of dividing people along religious lines. It is needed that all those committed to the values of amity of communities, and Indian Constitution, all those valuing the concept of Human rights come forward and spread the awareness about the Indian nationalism and build the bridges amongst religious communities to focus on progress of the nation in the field of education and industrialization on the basis of Human rights of all Indians, leaving the mosques and temples in peace, as they are; where they are. Read more>>>

Wikileaks confirms the treachery of the People's Rulers

The leaked cables show us that the US is only concerned with the pursuit of its interests in the world and an ally is seen merely as an aid to attain these interests. These leaders leave our people vulnerable to the interests of the west, happy to accommodate them where the only vision is to please their colonial master. Read more>>>

Ugly face of China; Jailed Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for standing up to the Chinese government and demanding political change - despite the government's fierce opposition. Outside the country of his birth, he is known as one of China's leading dissidents, winning awards and the attention of the world's media. Read more>>>

UK Students learn hypocrisy of democracy

Many would say that the scenes of tens of thousands of students marching up and down the country, setting fire to buildings and attacking police are all part of a healthy democracy. The right to protest and have your voice heard are things that Western democracies have gone to war to ensure other regimes implement. So seeing in on their own streets must be gripping. Read more>>>

UK Students learn hypocrisy of democracy

Many would say that the scenes of tens of thousands of students marching up and down the country, setting fire to buildings and attacking police are all part of a healthy democracy. The right to protest and have your voice heard are things that Western democracies have gone to war to ensure other regimes implement. So seeing in on their own streets must be gripping. Read more>>>

Arab rulers vs. Iran: Betrayal or bigotry?

The main actors of this Arab revolt, engineered by British spymaster T.E. Lawrence and Foreign Office advisor Gertrude Bell, were Abdul Aziz bin Abdur Rahman Al Saud, who was widely known as Ibn Saud or the founder of Saudi Arabia, and Hussein bin Ali, the then governor of Makkah. Read more>>>

MPs Debate the detention of Palestinian children in the West Bank

The minister went on to criticise the Israeli policy of denying Palestinian prisoners access to their families while under detention and said that Israel 'risked undermining its own interests' through these actions. Read more>>>

Middle East Cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi's silly thoughts & Qatar FIFA 2022 Vision

The FIFA announcement that Qatar is awarded hosting the 2022 World Cup represents the first time a Muslim country defeats the United States, the Doha-based Egyptian Middle East Cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi (...?) said in his last Friday sermon. Read more

WikiLeaks exposes gulf between Muslims and their rulers

After all, the leaders have long been seen as sell outs. If not for their slavish support, it would be impossible for western governments to have military bases in our lands or to maintain their military, economic, and political subjugation of the Muslim lands. These leaks are just additional proof of the weak and fearful Arab leaders who are dependent on US protection and who are so out of step with the views of the public. Read more>>>

Sri Lankan government moves to evict more Colombo shanty residents

The government has no concrete plans to provide houses for evicted families. Rajapakse did not allocate a cent to build new housing for shanty families in the 2011 budget, announced on November 22. While he claimed that the government’s “next priority is to develop 70,000 housing facilities for shanty dwellers,” Rajapakse said an “Urban Development Fund” would be established to meet relocation costs. Read more>>>

Egyptian elections marked by state violence and fraud

This is nothing but hypocrisy. In reality, the US is not concerned by the violation of human rights, but whether the Mubarak regime’s effort to maintain stability through intensified repression can be successful in the long term. Shortly before the elections, Michele Dunne, a former adviser to the State Department, said, “not every change should be suppressed if one is striving for greater stability.” Read more>>>

Palestine: The Holy Land is Vanishing and Shrinking

Ironically it was the United Nations General Assembly in 1947 that passed the resolution 181 (partition plan) to create Israel. Unfortunately it is from that day onwards that an Israeli – Palestinian conflict came into being. Read more>>>

The Korean crisis and the threat of a wider war

The potential for a catastrophic confrontation on the Korean peninsula is high. It is difficult to imagine another armed confrontation not provoking a major retaliation by the South Korean military. Read more>>>

North & South Korean Crisis

North Korea invaded the South, using Soviet tanks and weaponry, China also joined the war on the side of Communist North Korea, the threat of communist expansion led to the US to defend South Korea and by 1953 the US ended the war in a ceasefire agreement at more or less the same boundary, with South Korea making slight territorial gains. Read more>>>

Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy in Burma

Suu Kyi, has already made clear that she has no intention of challenging the Burmese junta. Rather, with the backing particularly of the United States, she is seeking a deal with the country’s generals. Suu Kyi has hinted that she is ready to reverse her previous stance and call for the easing or lifting of US and European sanctions in return for concessions from the generals—all in the name of helping the Burmese people. Read more>>>

Police attack students involved in nationwide protests in UK

A protest of around 10,000 was held in London and marches and demonstrations were held in many other towns and cities including Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Glasgow and Cardiff. Read more>>>

Sri Lankan budget implements IMF austerity measures

Military spending almost doubled the combined allocations for health and education—62 and 51.5 billion rupees respectively. These allocations rose by 10 and 5.5 billion rupees respectively but did not offset rising inflation. Read more>>>

War on Terror and War on Error

The questions asked in the West today are: Who is a terrorist? What is the definition of terrorism? What are the determining criteria?  A public body acceptable to everyone is urgently needed to undertake this. Only through such a body, the totality of the world errors can be understood by all. Read more>>>

NATO summit to embrace indefinite Afghan war

The fundamental motive of the wars, carried out under the fraudulent banner of a “war on terrorism,” has been to gain for American corporations a greater share in the exploitation of lucrative resources and position the US military to disrupt or even shut down energy supplies to strategic rivals such as China. Read more>>>

Mother of Sri Lankan worker facing Saudi death sentence speaks to WSWS

A Saudi court found Rizana Nafeek guilty in July 2007 and sentenced her to death by beheading. The verdict was based on a confession extracted by the police. Abandoned by the Sri Lankan government, she received no legal assistance or competent translation in court. Read more>>>

World Bank head calls for monetary system linked to gold

The new system, he writes, “should also consider employing gold as an international reference point of market expectations about inflation, deflation and future currency values. Although text books may view gold as the old money, markets are using gold as an alternative money asset today.” Read more>>>

Khilafah (Islamic State): A wealth of Possibilities

The Muslim lands posses 74% of the Worlds oil reserves, more than the rest of the world combined. It possesses 54% of the worlds Gas reserves, has $1 trillion in Gold reserves and a 4.7 million standing army. All of this makes it possible for the Khilafah to field an advanced military and have a strong manufacturing base. Read more>>>

Indonesia 15,000 Protesters Reject Obama’s Visit

Jakarta- Around 15 thousand protesters joined in a protest in front of the State Palace in Jakarta, Sunday (7th November). The protesters took a long march starting from the Presidential Palace to the front part of the US Embassy, a symbol of an imperialist country of the world. Along the way, they chanted ‘Reject, Reject, Reject Obama, Reject Obama Right Now’. Read more>>>

UK Young, white Convert female Muslim

In the 2001 Census, there were at least 30,000 British Muslim converts in the UK. According to Kevin Brice, of the Centre for Migration Policy Research, Swansea University, this number may now be closer to 50,000 – and the majority are women. Read more>>>

Roots of terrorism: invasion, occupation and foreign domination

The study shows there is a correlation between occupation and retaliatory violence in occupied territories as the indigenous populations attempt to remove foreign control: 95% of all 2,200 suicide bombings analysed were in response to foreign occupation. Read more>>>

Hindu fanaticism flourished under Congress governments and communalized judiciary

Hindu fanaticism which partitioned India in 1947   flourished   under successive Congress governments and an increasingly communalized and politicized judiciary. Today’s India   where the Hindus fanatics enjoy the fruits of their lawlessness and crime while the Muslims live in fear and terror is the product of successive Congress governments’ policy of pampering Hindu fanaticism with it secular slogan served to hoodwink the world. Read more>>>

Wiki Leaks & The Secret Iraq Files

It is the biggest leak of military secrets ever. Al Jazeera has obtained access to almost 400,000 classified American documents. Torture, claims of murder at the checkpoint - revelations that make a mockery of the rules of combat. This special programme reveals the truth about the war in Iraq. Read more>>>

WikiLeak’s Iraq logs confirm torture, civilian deaths and Western complicity

This is a horrific picture that reveals just how the occupation is actually being executed on the ground. Numbering in the tens of thousands, these are clearly not isolated incidents carried out by individual ‘bad apples’ as is typically maintained by western military, government and media sources. Read More>>>

Non-Violence is the Alternative

The need of the hour is bigger than issuing a few statements against violence. The need of the hour is to organize a non-violent movement at all levels to bring about desired change. Read more>>>

Another decade of neo-colonial war in Afghanistan

Washington’s “war on terrorism” was only ever a pretext for advancing US ambitions for dominance in the energy-rich regions of the Middle East and Central Asia. Read more>>>

Sri Lankan police attack protesting students

Police also attacked journalists and photographers. Journalist Bigun Gamage from Lankadeepa told the Sunday Times: “The students said they would leave the [nearby] park peacefully. The police allowed them to leave. But as soon as the students came out, the police started to assault them again. Read more>>>

"Israel" increases its cruelty and oppression in Palestine

The Muslims living in Palestine are prevented from digging wells and are limited greatly to the natural springs. When the water sources run out the Palestinian people must buy their water supply from the "Israelis". Read more>>>

Life doesn’t need to be so Taxing

Islam has a completely different perspective on the economy and tax as the Islamic basis is different to that of capitalism. Fundamentally taxation in Islam puts the emphasis of taxation on wealth rather than income.The Islamic taxation system does not tax income, but taxes wealth. Read more>>>

Sri Lanka: Opposition front formed to protest Fonseka’s jailing

The most recent protest, organised by the JVP, took place on Monday. About 5,000 people, mostly JVP supporters, marched three kilometres from Hyde Park in central Colombo to Welikada Prison where Fonseka has been jailed. UNP and the ex-radicals of the NSSP and the USP also participated. Read more>>>

New 9/11 Video Analysis & Truth; by Richard D Hall

New 9/11 computer analysis provided by Richard D. Hall sheds light on what most likely caused the damage to the World Trade Centre towers. This 22 minute film provides answers to many questions. Read more>>>

Sri Lankans In London Protest On Behalf Fonseka of Sri Lanka

Sri Lankans who reside in Britain held a protest demonstration demanding the release of former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka, to endorse media freedom and democracy. This demonstration was held in London opposite the Prime Minister’s Official Residence yesterday. Read more>>>

Blair’s ideology; Not Islam is the greatest threat facing world today

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has described ‘radical Islam as the greatest threat facing the world today’ during interviews promoting his newly published memoirs. Read more>>>

India‘s state-terrorism against minority Muslims in Kashmir

Raping women became a daily occurrence to break the spirit and soul of Kashmiri Muslims. The exact number of rapes will never be known as Kashmiri women who prefer death to dishonour, refuse to speak about their shameful ordeal and suffer the indignity in silence. Yet cases of rape, including those in front of family members and children by Indian forces were documented by many human rights organisations. Read more>>>   

Sri Lankan President Jails Political Rival

The prelates of the country’s four influential Buddhist sects recently sent a letter to the president calling for him to pardon Fonseka. The letter declared that the retired general had done “yeoman service” for the country by destroying the “terrorism” of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Read more>>>

ICJ report accuses Sri Lankan government of violating human rights

A report by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) released late last month condemns the arbitrary detention in Sri Lanka of thousands of Tamil youth with suspected links to the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Read more>>>

US threatens wider war in Pakistan

The Pakistani government and intelligence services have tolerated and collaborated in the drone attacks, but the US military carried out a qualitative escalation of the assault on Pakistan last week, staging a series of cross-border raids by US helicopter gunships based inside Afghanistan. Read more>>>

China and Russia strengthen strategic ties

In Japan, the joint statements by Russia and China have been interpreted as a common front against Japan. Russia and Japan also have a longstanding territorial disagreement over four of the Kuril Islands closest to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Read more>>>

Verdict on Babri Masjid - Victory for Hindu Fanaticism

This judgment   appears to have been written by Hindu fanatic Rastriya Swayam Sevak, RSS, whose declared agenda has been to wipe out Islam and Muslims from India in its drive to set up its version of Hinduraj- not based on Hindu dharma as taught by Vedas but by means of ruthless violence against Muslims. Read more>>>

Israel Occupation of Gaza; Dec 2009 Pictures

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Open Letter to President Obama of USA (Obama VS Obama)

We are fully aware that, with a worsening global economic crisis, and continuing challenges in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, political reform and progress toward democratic* reform  in the Middle East will need to compete with a whole host of other priorities on your agenda. Read more>>>