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Mark Salter
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Senior Researcher & Consultant. Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will - my favourite Gramsci misquote. RTs do not imply endorsement
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Essential reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Eye-watering.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Chinese state media hails Trump cuts to Voice of America
State newspaper gloated that the network has "now been discarded by its own government like a dirty rag".
www.bbc.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Definitely worth a read. #Trumpism

open.substack.com/pub/noahpini...
This thing will fail
Trump will not restore the "strong gods" of community, family, and faith.
open.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Coming soon(ish) to a bookshop near you. #lka @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Sad sign of the times. This just in from the website of a onetime (and not much appreciated) employer:

Due to the U.S. Government freeze on foreign assistance disbursements, #IRI has temporarily disabled our website to mitigate expenses. We hope to have it up again in future.
March 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Stirring - and exactly the kind of thing I'd hope to see from Wałęsa, Michnik, Frasynyuk and company. #Poland #Ukraine

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Lech Wałęsa expresses ‘horror and distaste’ at Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy
Ex-Polish leader, who won Nobel prize for pro-democracy efforts, compares meeting to a communist interrogation
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Necessary, sobering reading.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Quite a story - if accurate.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The inside story of how the Israel-Hamas ceasefire was struck
The BBC spoke to officials from both sides of the talks to piece together how the Gaza deal was done.
www.bbc.com
January 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Archive December 14, 2024
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December 15, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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My latest reply to Tisaranee Gunasekara on Sri Lanka's Ha Arugam Bay controversy.
www.ft.lk/columns/All-...
All at sea? | Daily FT
“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator. But above all, thou shalt not be a bystander” – Yehuda Bauer ..
www.ft.lk
December 7, 2024 at 6:43 AM
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'We did not deviate from our founding principles and objectives. We changed our strategies and reorganised ourselves.' The true story? #lka #NPP #JVP

www.dailymirror.lk/plus/Ours-is...
“Ours isn’t a leftist Govt, but one of leftist, democratic and progressive forces’’- Tilvin Silva General Secretary of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna - Plus | Daily Mirror
Tilvin Silva, the General Secretary of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), the core base of National People’s Power (NPP), shares his views on the government’s way forward and responds to social media cr...
www.dailymirror.lk
December 1, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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Now in the #ColomboTelegraph as well. #lka

www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/sr...
Sri Lanka's Arugam Bay Challenge - Colombo Telegraph
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www.colombotelegraph.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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Mass X-odus: professionals desert Elon Musk’s network

https://www.ft.com/content/30510160-88d0-4d5f-9882-b79f131d3ada
Mass X-odus: professionals desert Elon Musk’s network
Creatives and freelancers miss opportunity and inspiration after decline of X
www.ft.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:29 AM