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The battle of the ‘Geezers’ in November:Biden – Trump rematch
The Supreme Court delivers for Trump
byVijaya Chandrasoma
On Monday, March 4, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a Colorado Supreme Court ruling of December 23 that Donald Trump be disqualified from the ballot in Colorado in the November 2024 presidential election. The Colorado ruling was based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which states:No person shall…. hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or any other state, who previously having taken an oath…. to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress, may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. According to a strict interpretation of the Amendment, Trump, who, in plain eyes, incited the January 6 insurrection, and “provided aid and comfort” to the insurrectionists by delaying the summoning of federal troops to quell the violence unfolding before his eyes for 187 minutes, is clearly not eligible to run for the job of dog-catcher, much less the highest position in the land.The Supreme Court ruling was completely at odds with the US constitution.
The 6/3 pro-Republican Court took the path of least resistance by ruling in favor of Trump, for fear of violent political consequences that will inevitably follow if Trump was disenfranchised.The unanimous Supreme Court ruling stated: “States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 (of the 14th Amendment) with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency”. The unanimity ended there.Liberal Justices Kagan, Sotomayor and Brown-Jackson, argued that “the ruling goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oath breaking insurrectionist from becoming President.
We protest the majority’s effort to use this case to define the limits of federal enforcement of that provision”.In simple English, the liberal Justices object that the ruling sets a precedent that will allow an “oath breaking insurrectionist” – an obvious reference to Trump – to once again, violently attempt to prevent the constitutional transfer of power.Even more strangely, the Supreme Court issued the ruling on Monday, March 4, when the Supreme Court was closed. Rulings are invariably announced on days the Supreme Court is in session.
The reason for the choice of this date to issue the ruling was obviously political, to give Trump a public victory the day before Super Tuesday, March 5, when 15 states were scheduled to hold their primaries. As expected, both President Biden and Trump convincingly swept their primaries on Super Tuesday, and all but clinched the 2024 presidential nominations of their respective Parties.
Barring the hitherto unannounced challenge of a Third-Party candidate, the 2024 presidential election will feature the dreaded rematch between two octogenarians.Trump’s last challenger, Nikki Haley, decided to exit the race on Wednesday, after being trounced by Trump in the Republican primaries. In her speech announcing the suspension of her presidential run, Haley congratulated Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee and wished him well.
She did not endorse him, adding pointedly that she hopes that he will bring conservatives in the Party together instead of driving them away. However, she did not quite close the door to playing a role in a future Trump administration.The corruption and the Trump bias of this Supreme Court does not end with the Colorado case.On February 6, 2023, a panel of three justices of the Washington D.C. District Appeals Court ruled on the Presidential Immunity case.
Trump’s counsel had argued that an incumbent president enjoys absolute immunity, civil and criminal, from any legal action while in office. An argument which led Judge Florence Pan of the D.C. panel to pose the question: “Could a president order SEAL Team Six (the most highly trained and elite forces in the US military) to assassinate a political rival? That is an official act?” She went on to inquire if a US president would still be immune from prosecution if, hypothetically speaking, he sold military secrets to foreign adversaries or peddled pardons to criminals?Nothing hypothetical there.
Trump peddled pardons to criminals during his presidency, even after his defeat in November, 2020; and sales of military secrets were freely available, if the price was right, to foreign adversaries, from the toilets of Trump’s resort at Mar a Lago after he left the White House in January, 2021.Neither civil nor criminal immunity is explicitly granted to an incumbent or former president in the Constitution. As the Justices of the D.C. panel stated in their ruling:”It would be a striking paradox if the president, who alone is vested with the constitutional duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, were the sole officer capable of defying those laws with impunity”.
The Supreme Court had three options for the disbursement of the appeal for Presidential Immunity submitted by Trump’s counsel. The most impartial option would have been to refuse to take the case, on grounds that the D. C. Appeals Court ruling had covered every aspect of the case with “constitutional text, judicial precedent, history and logic”, to such a decisive level that overturning it would be well-nigh judicially impossible
Such a decision would have ensured that the Washington District Court January 6 Insurrection (sedition) trial against Trump could start as early as April and a verdict reached before the end of June, well before the November 2024 election. An option that did not serve Trump’s delay tactics.The Court decided instead to accept the case for hearing. A delay in issuing the inevitable ruling, that no one is above the law, would postpone the progress of the four criminal trials against Trump, so preventing a possible conviction before the November election.
A despicable act of sycophantic bias, again favoring Trump’s political strategy, typical of the most corrupt Supreme Court in the nation’s history. Trump claimed a “huge victory” with these Supreme Court decisions. He is using these hollow victories to make himself look indomitable in the eyes of his cult. The eternal victim who exudes an orange glow of confidence and strength by overcoming all the injustices thrown at him by leftist fascists.
President Biden may be perceived as a weak candidate for re-election. He is undoubtedly chronologically too old to begin a second presidential term, but he is just three years older than Trump. At 81 and 78, Biden and Trump are both old geezers. Biden’s gait may be slow and measured, his speech sometimes marble-mouthed and unintelligible. But his presidential performance during the first three years of his presidency has been nothing short of outstanding.On the other hand, Trump’s interview at last Sunday’s Meet the Press showed the rapid unraveling of his mind. He made preposterous statements about the 2020 “rigged election”, the January 6 “peaceful political protest”, immigration and “the invasion of 15 million immigrants from foreign prisons and mental asylums before November”, “bacon being five times more expensive than it used to be”, cutting taxes for the super-rich during his first term that created “tremendous jobs” and a booming economy, “the greatest in history”.
His unhinged lies about abortion make it perfectly obvious that he is non compos mentis, Latin for batshit crazy:”Democrats say that after eight months, nine months, even after birth, you are allowed to terminate the baby…..after the baby is born, you will make a determination, and if you want, you will kill that baby”. This moron does not understand the difference between murder and abortion! The Republican Alabama Supreme Court ruled last Wednesday that frozen embryos are “children”, with a constitutional right to life.
Taking this concept to its logical conclusion, it won’t be long before Republicans will deem that conception begins at erection, and ban masturbation, thereby preventing the dissipation of millions of little swimmers, also potential “children”, with each fell swoop. A ban which would cause needless emotional frustration in teenagers and middle-aged married men.
You may think I am kidding, but when you consider the fact that many radical Republicans, including some Supreme Court Justices, seem to be gravitating towards the opinion that contraception is also anti-life and a form of abortion, it doesn’t sound that funny.
The Republicans could not possibly field a weaker candidate than a convicted fraud and rapist, a man who left his first term of presidency with criminal mismanagement of Covid, which cost at least 650,000 avoidable deaths, an economy in recession with an addition of $7.8 trillion to the national debt. A criminal terrified about facing four indictments and 91 felonies, who will be spending much of the next few months playing musical chairs in four federal and district courts.
A bankrupt facing the imminent payment of court-awarded damages, for fraud and sexual crimes, of at least $550 million, and has appealed for time to pay because he is broke. A self-confessed “billionaire” who has used campaign donations to pay his legal expenses at millions of dollars per case and sexual encounters with porn stars at $135,000 per minute. A man whose sole ambition to win the presidency in November is not to serve the country, but to stay out of prison. And to resume stealing the country blind as he did during his first term.
Amazingly, most current polls have Trump with a narrow (currently 48% to 46%) lead over President Biden, as the favorite to win the 2024 presidency. In spite of the fact that under his leadership, the Republicans have not won a single national election since he stole the presidency in 2016. Media obsession with Trump pose a great threat to American democracy because even the most prestigious newspapers and TV channels are no longer interested in providing a public service with responsible journalism. They are only interested in circulation figures and the bottom line, concentrating more on coverage of sensational news rather than dispensing important information on vital political and social issues for the benefit of their readers.
Even the prestigious New York Times has been guilty of such venal journalism in recent times. It covers Biden and Trump with disproportionate standards, placing false equivalence on issues surrounding Biden and his debilities, to Trump, who is himself on the cusp of senility, and also faces 91 criminal counts.
In a front-page article last Sunday headlined “Most Biden Voters of 2020 Fear He’s Too Old To Lead”, the Times dwelt on Biden’s age, with no mention of his presidential achievements, nor of a recent routine medical assessment which deemed Biden in perfect mental and physical health for a man his age, eminently capable of conducting the rigorous duties of the presidency for a second term.
The Times story about Biden’s age and unpopularity appeared the day after a Donald Trump rally rant in Richmond, Virginia, full of slurred lies, non-sequiturs and other absurdities, evidence of a fast-unraveling mind. A speech with his trademark brazen lies and vulgarities, largely ignored by the Times.
As a reader of the Times wrote, “Please drop the pretense that there is anything like equivalency in the choice between the candidates. The real story in this election cycle is the fact that the putative Republican nominee has serious, observable signs of mental decline. Nothing Biden says or does comes even close!”
In 2016, all polls conducted in every country except Russia predicted that Hillary would beat Trump by a landslide. In 2020, polls predicted that the race between Biden and Trump would be close when it was not. Many political commentators argue that “polling is irrevocably broken”, that the polling industry “is a wreck, and should be blown up”. Be that as it may, it is my fervent hope that I will survive long enough to gloat about my prediction, that “I told you so”, when Trump and his white supremacist cult members (sadly sprinkled with a few browns, even Sri Lankans) are driven back into the woodwork, come November.
by Dr Gotabhya Ranasinghe
Senior Consultant Cardiologist
National Hospital Sri Lanka
When we sought a meeting with Hon Dr. Ramesh Pathirana, Minister of Health, he graciously cleared his busy schedule to accommodate us. Renowned for his attentive listening and deep understanding, Minister Pathirana is dedicated to advancing the health sector. His openness and transparency exemplify the qualities of an exemplary politician and minister.
Dr. Palitha Mahipala, the current Health Secretary, demonstrates both commendable enthusiasm and unwavering support. This combination of attributes makes him a highly compatible colleague for the esteemed Minister of Health.
Our discussion centered on a project that has been in the works for the past 30 years, one that no other minister had managed to advance.
Minister Pathirana, however, recognized the project’s significance and its potential to revolutionize care for heart patients.
The project involves the construction of a state-of-the-art facility at the premises of the National Hospital Colombo. The project’s location within the premises of the National Hospital underscores its importance and relevance to the healthcare infrastructure of the nation.
This facility will include a cardiology building and a tertiary care center, equipped with the latest technology to handle and treat all types of heart-related conditions and surgeries.
Securing funding was a major milestone for this initiative. Minister Pathirana successfully obtained approval for a $40 billion loan from the Asian Development Bank. With the funding in place, the foundation stone is scheduled to be laid in September this year, and construction will begin in January 2025.
This project guarantees a consistent and uninterrupted supply of stents and related medications for heart patients. As a result, patients will have timely access to essential medical supplies during their treatment and recovery. By securing these critical resources, the project aims to enhance patient outcomes, minimize treatment delays, and maintain the highest standards of cardiac care.
Upon its fruition, this monumental building will serve as a beacon of hope and healing, symbolizing the unwavering dedication to improving patient outcomes and fostering a healthier society.We anticipate a future marked by significant progress and positive outcomes in Sri Lanka’s cardiovascular treatment landscape within the foreseeable timeframe.
by Fr. Emmanuel Fernando, OMI
Jesuit Fr. Aloysius Pieris (affectionately called Fr. Aloy) celebrated his 90th birthday on April 9, 2024 and I, as the editor of our Oblate Journal, THE MISSIONARY OBLATE had gone to press by that time. Immediately I decided to publish an article, appreciating the untiring selfless services he continues to offer for inter-Faith dialogue, the renewal of the Catholic Church, his concern for the poor and the suffering Sri Lankan masses and to me, the present writer.
It was in 1988, when I was appointed Director of the Oblate Scholastics at Ampitiya by the then Oblate Provincial Fr. Anselm Silva, that I came to know Fr. Aloy more closely. Knowing well his expertise in matters spiritual, theological, Indological and pastoral, and with the collaborative spirit of my companion-formators, our Oblate Scholastics were sent to Tulana, the Research and Encounter Centre, Kelaniya, of which he is the Founder-Director, for ‘exposure-programmes’ on matters spiritual, biblical, theological and pastoral. Some of these dimensions according to my view and that of my companion-formators, were not available at the National Seminary, Ampitiya.
Ever since that time, our Oblate formators/ accompaniers at the Oblate Scholasticate, Ampitiya , have continued to send our Oblate Scholastics to Tulana Centre for deepening their insights and convictions regarding matters needed to serve the people in today’s context. Fr. Aloy also had tried very enthusiastically with the Oblate team headed by Frs. Oswald Firth and Clement Waidyasekara to begin a Theologate, directed by the Religious Congregations in Sri Lanka, for the contextual formation/ accompaniment of their members. It should very well be a desired goal of the Leaders / Provincials of the Religious Congregations.
Besides being a formator/accompanier at the Oblate Scholasticate, I was entrusted also with the task of editing and publishing our Oblate journal, ‘The Missionary Oblate’. To maintain the quality of the journal I continue to depend on Fr. Aloy for his thought-provoking and stimulating articles on Biblical Spirituality, Biblical Theology and Ecclesiology. I am very grateful to him for his generous assistance. Of late, his writings on renewal of the Church, initiated by Pope St. John XX111 and continued by Pope Francis through the Synodal path, published in our Oblate journal, enable our readers to focus their attention also on the needed renewal in the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka. Fr. Aloy appreciated very much the Synodal path adopted by the Jesuit Pope Francis for the renewal of the Church, rooted very much on prayerful discernment. In my Religious and presbyteral life, Fr.Aloy continues to be my spiritual animator / guide and ongoing formator / acccompanier.
Fr. Aloysius Pieris, BA Hons (Lond), LPh (SHC, India), STL (PFT, Naples), PhD (SLU/VC), ThD (Tilburg), D.Ltt (KU), has been one of the eminent Asian theologians well recognized internationally and one who has lectured and held visiting chairs in many universities both in the West and in the East. Many members of Religious Congregations from Asian countries have benefited from his lectures and guidance in the East Asian Pastoral Institute (EAPI) in Manila, Philippines. He had been a Theologian consulted by the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences for many years. During his professorship at the Gregorian University in Rome, he was called to be a member of a special group of advisers on other religions consulted by Pope Paul VI.
Fr. Aloy is the author of more than 30 books and well over 500 Research Papers. Some of his books and articles have been translated and published in several countries. Among those books, one can find the following: 1) The Genesis of an Asian Theology of Liberation (An Autobiographical Excursus on the Art of Theologising in Asia, 2) An Asian Theology of Liberation, 3) Providential Timeliness of Vatican 11 (a long-overdue halt to a scandalous millennium, 4) Give Vatican 11 a chance, 5) Leadership in the Church, 6) Relishing our faith in working for justice (Themes for study and discussion), 7) A Message meant mainly, not exclusively for Jesuits (Background information necessary for helping Francis renew the Church), 8) Lent in Lanka (Reflections and Resolutions, 9) Love meets wisdom (A Christian Experience of Buddhism, 10) Fire and Water 11) God’s Reign for God’s poor, 12) Our Unhiddden Agenda (How we Jesuits work, pray and form our men). He is also the Editor of two journals, Vagdevi, Journal of Religious Reflection and Dialogue, New Series.
Fr. Aloy has a BA in Pali and Sanskrit from the University of London and a Ph.D in Buddhist Philosophy from the University of Sri Lankan, Vidyodaya Campus. On Nov. 23, 2019, he was awarded the prestigious honorary Doctorate of Literature (D.Litt) by the Chancellor of the University of Kelaniya, the Most Venerable Welamitiyawe Dharmakirthi Sri Kusala Dhamma Thera.
Fr. Aloy continues to be a promoter of Gospel values and virtues. Justice as a constitutive dimension of love and social concern for the downtrodden masses are very much noted in his life and work. He had very much appreciated the commitment of the late Fr. Joseph (Joe) Fernando, the National Director of the Social and Economic Centre (SEDEC) for the poor.
In Sri Lanka, a few religious Congregations – the Good Shepherd Sisters, the Christian Brothers, the Marist Brothers and the Oblates – have invited him to animate their members especially during their Provincial Congresses, Chapters and International Conferences. The mainline Christian Churches also have sought his advice and followed his seminars. I, for one, regret very much, that the Sri Lankan authorities of the Catholic Church –today’s Hierarchy—- have not sought Fr.
Aloy’s expertise for the renewal of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka and thus have not benefited from the immense store of wisdom and insight that he can offer to our local Church while the Sri Lankan bishops who governed the Catholic church in the immediate aftermath of the Second Vatican Council (Edmund Fernando OMI, Anthony de Saram, Leo Nanayakkara OSB, Frank Marcus Fernando, Paul Perera,) visited him and consulted him on many matters. Among the Tamil Bishops, Bishop Rayappu Joseph was keeping close contact with him and Bishop J. Deogupillai hosted him and his team visiting him after the horrible Black July massacre of Tamils.
Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement
By Gomi Senadhira
senadhiragomi@gmail.com
“You might tell fairy tales, but the progress of a country cannot be achieved through such narratives. A country cannot be developed by making false promises. The country moved backward because of the electoral promises made by political parties throughout time. We have witnessed that the ultimate result of this is the country becoming bankrupt. Unfortunately, many segments of the population have not come to realize this yet.” – President Ranil Wickremesinghe, 2024 Budget speech
Any Sri Lankan would agree with the above words of President Wickremesinghe on the false promises our politicians and officials make and the fairy tales they narrate which bankrupted this country. So, to understand this, let’s look at one such fairy tale with lots of false promises; Ranil Wickremesinghe’s greatest achievement in the area of international trade and investment promotion during the Yahapalana period, Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (SLSFTA).
It is appropriate and timely to do it now as Finance Minister Wickremesinghe has just presented to parliament a bill on the National Policy on Economic Transformation which includes the establishment of an Office for International Trade and the Sri Lanka Institute of Economics and International Trade.
Was SLSFTA a “Cleverly negotiated Free Trade Agreement” as stated by the (former) Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Malik Samarawickrama during the Parliamentary Debate on the SLSFTA in July 2018, or a colossal blunder covered up with lies, false promises, and fairy tales? After SLSFTA was signed there were a number of fairy tales published on this agreement by the Ministry of Development Strategies and International, Institute of Policy Studies, and others.
However, for this article, I would like to limit my comments to the speech by Minister Samarawickrama during the Parliamentary Debate, and the two most important areas in the agreement which were covered up with lies, fairy tales, and false promises, namely: revenue loss for Sri Lanka and Investment from Singapore. On the other important area, “Waste products dumping” I do not want to comment here as I have written extensively on the issue.
1. The revenue loss
During the Parliamentary Debate in July 2018, Minister Samarawickrama stated “…. let me reiterate that this FTA with Singapore has been very cleverly negotiated by us…. The liberalisation programme under this FTA has been carefully designed to have the least impact on domestic industry and revenue collection. We have included all revenue sensitive items in the negative list of items which will not be subject to removal of tariff. Therefore, 97.8% revenue from Customs duty is protected. Our tariff liberalisation will take place over a period of 12-15 years! In fact, the revenue earned through tariffs on goods imported from Singapore last year was Rs. 35 billion.
The revenue loss for over the next 15 years due to the FTA is only Rs. 733 million– which when annualised, on average, is just Rs. 51 million. That is just 0.14% per year! So anyone who claims the Singapore FTA causes revenue loss to the Government cannot do basic arithmetic! Mr. Speaker, in conclusion, I call on my fellow members of this House – don’t mislead the public with baseless criticism that is not grounded in facts. Don’t look at petty politics and use these issues for your own political survival.”
I was surprised to read the minister’s speech because an article published in January 2018 in “The Straits Times“, based on information released by the Singaporean Negotiators stated, “…. With the FTA, tariff savings for Singapore exports are estimated to hit $10 million annually“.
As the annual tariff savings (that is the revenue loss for Sri Lanka) calculated by the Singaporean Negotiators, Singaporean $ 10 million (Sri Lankan rupees 1,200 million in 2018) was way above the rupees’ 733 million revenue loss for 15 years estimated by the Sri Lankan negotiators, it was clear to any observer that one of the parties to the agreement had not done the basic arithmetic!
Six years later, according to a report published by “The Morning” newspaper, speaking at the Committee on Public Finance (COPF) on 7th May 2024, Mr Samarawickrama’s chief trade negotiator K.J. Weerasinghehad had admitted “…. that forecasted revenue loss for the Government of Sri Lanka through the Singapore FTA is Rs. 450 million in 2023 and Rs. 1.3 billion in 2024.”
If these numbers are correct, as tariff liberalisation under the SLSFTA has just started, we will pass Rs 2 billion very soon. Then, the question is how Sri Lanka’s trade negotiators made such a colossal blunder. Didn’t they do their basic arithmetic? If they didn’t know how to do basic arithmetic they should have at least done their basic readings. For example, the headline of the article published in The Straits Times in January 2018 was “Singapore, Sri Lanka sign FTA, annual savings of $10m expected”.
Anyway, as Sri Lanka’s chief negotiator reiterated at the COPF meeting that “…. since 99% of the tariffs in Singapore have zero rates of duty, Sri Lanka has agreed on 80% tariff liberalisation over a period of 15 years while expecting Singapore investments to address the imbalance in trade,” let’s turn towards investment.
Investment from Singapore
In July 2018, speaking during the Parliamentary Debate on the FTA this is what Minister Malik Samarawickrama stated on investment from Singapore, “Already, thanks to this FTA, in just the past two-and-a-half months since the agreement came into effect we have received a proposal from Singapore for investment amounting to $ 14.8 billion in an oil refinery for export of petroleum products. In addition, we have proposals for a steel manufacturing plant for exports ($ 1 billion investment), flour milling plant ($ 50 million), sugar refinery ($ 200 million). This adds up to more than $ 16.05 billion in the pipeline on these projects alone.
And all of these projects will create thousands of more jobs for our people. In principle approval has already been granted by the BOI and the investors are awaiting the release of land the environmental approvals to commence the project.
I request the Opposition and those with vested interests to change their narrow-minded thinking and join us to develop our country. We must always look at what is best for the whole community, not just the few who may oppose. We owe it to our people to courageously take decisions that will change their lives for the better.”
According to the media report I quoted earlier, speaking at the Committee on Public Finance (COPF) Chief Negotiator Weerasinghe has admitted that Sri Lanka was not happy with overall Singapore investments that have come in the past few years in return for the trade liberalisation under the Singapore-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement. He has added that between 2021 and 2023 the total investment from Singapore had been around $162 million!
What happened to those projects worth $16 billion negotiated, thanks to the SLSFTA, in just the two-and-a-half months after the agreement came into effect and approved by the BOI? I do not know about the steel manufacturing plant for exports ($ 1 billion investment), flour milling plant ($ 50 million) and sugar refinery ($ 200 million).
However, story of the multibillion-dollar investment in the Petroleum Refinery unfolded in a manner that would qualify it as the best fairy tale with false promises presented by our politicians and the officials, prior to 2019 elections.
Though many Sri Lankans got to know, through the media which repeatedly highlighted a plethora of issues surrounding the project and the questionable credentials of the Singaporean investor, the construction work on the Mirrijiwela Oil Refinery along with the cement factory began on the24th of March 2019 with a bang and Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his ministers along with the foreign and local dignitaries laid the foundation stones.
That was few months before the 2019 Presidential elections. Inaugurating the construction work Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the projects will create thousands of job opportunities in the area and surrounding districts.
The oil refinery, which was to be built over 200 acres of land, with the capacity to refine 200,000 barrels of crude oil per day, was to generate US$7 billion of exports and create 1,500 direct and 3,000 indirect jobs. The construction of the refinery was to be completed in 44 months. Four years later, in August 2023 the Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal presented by President Ranil Wickremesinghe to cancel the agreement with the investors of the refinery as the project has not been implemented! Can they explain to the country how much money was wasted to produce that fairy tale?
It is obvious that the President, ministers, and officials had made huge blunders and had deliberately misled the public and the parliament on the revenue loss and potential investment from SLSFTA with fairy tales and false promises.
As the president himself said, a country cannot be developed by making false promises or with fairy tales and these false promises and fairy tales had bankrupted the country. “Unfortunately, many segments of the population have not come to realize this yet”.
(The writer, a specialist and an activist on trade and development issues . )
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