On the image cover Ranil Wickramasinghe, current president of Sri Lanka since 21 July 2022
by Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake
Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, is a Social and Medical Anthropologist, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. All links to Gospa News articles have been added aftermath
“But to watch cricket, there has to be a country left for us to watch it in, no?” A fan at the Galle Test Match that ended with an innings victory for Sri Lanka. July 11, 2022
Spirits were high on July 11 when the Sri Lankan cricket team beat the visiting Aussies by an innings even though the country was in its worst economic crisis ever, due to a lack of Dollars to buy fuel caused by an international Sovereign Bond (ISB), debt trap and Staged Default.
The cricket victory followed a magical weekend in which the Aragalaya, or peoples’ struggle, exceeded all expectations, staging multiple coups to peacefully claim both the Presidential Palace and the Prime Minister’s official residence. The island’s President and PM were unseated by massive waves of protestors without a single person killed in gunfire. Later the protestors cooled off in the Presidential pool and had impromptu concerts celebrating what appeared to be a successful regime change operation.
There’s never a dull moment in this strategically located emerald island that is perpetually in the cross hairs of big power rivalry! Even though the confrontations in Colombo were replete with barricade breaches, water cannon charges and tear-gas sprayed, the police and military conceded to peoples’ power after brief stand-offs with unarmed protestors.
This was also on the urging of an eminent group of religious leaders in this multi-faith land of Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians and myriad local gods, spirits, and sentient beings.
100 Days of Protest
Fewer people have died in a 100 days of massive protests in Sri Lanka than in a single day of gun violence in the United States, although the island is invariably portrayed as a space of (ethno-religious) violence in media, expert analysis and ethnography. This speaks volumes about where violence springs from in the global military business industrial complex.
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The bright spot was that the Sri Lankan armed forces had demonstrated that they had little interest in military takeovers for foreign-backed dictators despite being trained in “inter-operability” by various Big powers fishing in the Indian Ocean! This was another cause for hope, peace, DEBT JUSTICE, debt cancellation and victory in International Monetary Fund (IMF) talks– if only the external actors staging the crisis would let up!
Although no one has been killed during protests, the new acting President came to power in a lightening-strike Arab Spring regime change operation on May 12th during an island wide curfew with military was on the streets. Some of the big powers fishing in Sri Lanka’s troubles waters have a bad habit of installing chosen Dictators in strategic countries.
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Ranil Wickramasinghe who lost his parliament seat and decimated his own political party at the last elections, and whose house was partially burned by protestors, is now Acting President! He is the Chief architect of the Central Bank Bondscam in 2015 that opened the door to vulture funds like Blackrock that engage in reckless lending and odious debt that has cause the Debt trap, and has never made a secret of his fondness for the West.
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Protestors who want him out, question Wickramasinghe’s legitimacy and suitability to represent the people of Sri Lanka’s interests in negotiations with the IMF and US-based ISB traders. He has termed the protestors “fascists” and given all power to the military to do whatever it takes to maintain law and order and protect the Constitution! So, the scene is now set for a deadlier turn as the protestors have vowed to keep protesting, as an Indian Ocean war game heats up.
Three layers to the Crisis: Political, Economic and Geopolitical
It is clear that there are three layers and dynamics– economic, political and geopolitical– to the Crisis in Sri Lanka.
Although least discussed, geopolitics would likely determine the outcome of compounding crises in the country as a new Cold War hots up: Last week, Vlodimir Zelinski, Ukrainian President beloved of the Corporate Media that crafts the narrative weighed in on Sri Lanka at a Global Leadership meeting in Seoul, Korea, where he claimed that Russia was the cause of the island nation’s unrest!
China is routinely blamed for Sri Lanka’s U.S-based ISB debt trap and Russia for the island’s fuel crisis in both global and local media.
Zelinski did not mention two years of Covid-19 lockdowns and related economic and institutional debilitation as part of the great reset ‘shock doctrine” and Digital Colonialism to enable what Naomi Klein has termed “humanitarian disaster capitalism”, or the fact that the Weaponization of the US dollar with sanctions had ruined many countries.
But this may be back firing as London-based economist Michael Roberts noted: “the dollar’s decades-long dominance has placed America in a strong position to dictate the terms of trade and finance for the last 70 years, but its dominance has been waning gradually”. More countries are de-dollarizing at this time.[i]
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Zelinski obviously had no idea that Sri Lanka’s biggest problem was a shortage of “exorbitantly privileged’ US dollars due to International Sovereign Bond (ISB) debt trap—a result of odious debt owed to US and EU vulture funds like Black Rock that received huge US-Government Covid-19 bailout funds to debt-trap and asset strip in countries like Sri Lanka. This is what has triggered the Default and fuel shortage in strategic Sri Lanka at the center of Indian Ocean Sea Lanes of Communication– so the IMF could enter the fray.
Zelinsky appeared to be quoting a disingenuous comment made at an international panel discussion focused on “Preventing Global Hunger and Famine”, by Sri Lanka’s Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who said the island nation’s political turmoil is a result of the global food shortage and fuel crisis brought on by the Russia- Ukraine war.[ii]
The Financial Times noted recently that “Western nations have introduced unprecedented financial sanctions on Russia, including on the country’s central bank, which have the potential to decimate its economy. Experts say they amount to full-scale financial warfare of an unheard-of nature and scope.[iii] While the dollar has been weaponized against sanctions hit Russia, Sri Lanka too is starved of Russian oil seemingly to deepen the crisis ex poste facto the default?!
Indeed, as a number of analysts have noted, US-led NATO sanctions on big oil producing countries like Russia, Iran and Venezuela and speculation by traders in commodities futures are the main source of the current global fuel trade disruption, related food shortages and soaring oil prices! Oil companies meanwhile have never made more profit, just like big Pharma companies did during Covid-9 lockdowns and mass injection campaigns.
QUAD, Cricket, and Disinformation
Who said “Cricket is the Opiate of the masses of South Asia?” QUAD cricket teams from India, Australia (and now Pakistani), have played flood-lit matches despite power outages in Sri Lanka in the past two months to keep the natives entertained and distracted from the Big Picture – geopolitics and great power contest in the strategic Indian Ocean island as the crisis unfolds! Of course, the corporate media that crafts the narrative also helps.
The last ship bringing Russian oil to the Sapugaskanda oil refinery docked in the Colombo Port, South Asia’s busiest, at the end of May, after which the US Marines have been conducting Sea Vision training in Sri Lanka, as oil tankers that were due in the months of June-July in the oil staved country disappeared into thin air like the dollars paid for them via cyber hacks of data on the Government Cloud, as happened to the National Medicines Regulatory Authority during a Covid-19 injection purchasing spree in 2020?!
The Eagle had landed with the IMF team and “special US Advisors” in town with Lazard, Clifford and Chance representing bond traders to bailout ISB holders? Was the disappearance of ships bring Russian oil and gas to the strategic island for 6 weeks in June-July and compounding ex post the staged default linked to the fact that US Department of Defense “Sea Vision” operations were on-going with the Sea Vision Technical Assistance Field Team [iv]?
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A Russian Aeroflot Airlines plane was also mysteriously grounded at the BIA International Airport in a scenario of Lawfare. Aeroflot suspended all flights to Sri Lanka after a court ordered the seizure of one of its Airbus A330s on June 2nd. The case was dismissed a month later but the episode seemed designed to disrupt relations between the two countries and impede the possibility of fuel deliveries from Russia which has de-dollarized and does not take US dollars.
As citizens died in petrol queues, Prime Minister Wickramasinghe stated on June 10th: “If we can get oil from any other sources, we will get from there. Otherwise [we] may have to go to Russia again”.[v] Wickramasinghe was clearly waiting for the IMF and Washington’s permission to buy oil from Russia!
Thus, the staged fuel-crisis, a policy choice of the pro-US regime in Colombo reached another milestone: In the first week of July 120 flights to the island were diverted to India, effectively “islanding” and marooning the strategic country from the rest of the world in the midst of a news blackout and a de facto fuel embargo on the island at the center of the Indian Ocean, now known as the “free and open Indo-Pacific”![vi]
Fuel and News Embargo: The First Domino to Fall?
While Indian media carried the story about 120 planes that were diverted to Kochi and Thiruvanathapuram airports from Sri Lanka purportedly to help the fuel-starved island at the center of the Indian Ocean after ships bringing oil vanished into thin air, the local and global corporate media that crafts the narrative in the country were silent about this. Failure to publish geopolitical analysis is often attributed by to a shortage of paper and news print, lately!
Is Sri Lanka the first domino to fall in America’s mythical ‘free and open Indo-Pacific? Would the Quadrilateral Group (QUAD), enable a de facto cyber, maritime trade fuel, and News, embargo to starve the island’s economy from Russian oil, deepen the debt-trap and enable and IMF to set economic and trade policy in this island at the center of the Indian Ocean? “It is well known that “the United States bears a good share of responsibility” for increasingly weaponising trade among most countries” wrote Dr, Anis Chowdury recently in a much quoted article.[vii]
The elephant in the room of Sri Lanka’s spiraling crisis appears to be balanced analysis and news of Geopolitics in the IOR and the Covid-19 induced ‘Global Reset’ to benefit the global corporates backed by the NATO-QUAD military business industrial complex.[viii]
by Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake
Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, is a Social and Medical Anthropologist, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. All links to Gospa News articles have been added aftermath
[i] https://english.news.cn/20220714/1302e4c23211412ca571e73f10e994a2/c.html
[ii] http://www.colombopage.com/archive_22B/Jul17_1658072441CH.php
[iii] https://www.ft.com/content/ff95ee3f-a1b8-4a54-9657-6a1aaecc105f
[iv] https://ceylontoday.lk/2022/07/04/odcs-sea-vision-third-phase-training-concludes-successfully/
[v] https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sri-lanka-pm-wickremesinghe-says-hes-open-to-russian-oil/article65520639.ece
[vi] https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/120-flights-sri-lanka-flights-diverted-to-kerala-aviation-minister-scindia-lauds-trivandrum-and-kochi-airports
[vii] https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/the-world/usa-and-canada/5461-weaponizing-trade-has-gained-new-impetus-and-focus
[viii] https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/conspiracy-theories-aside-there-something-fishy-about-great-reset/
Fabio is Director and Editor of Gospa News; a Christian Information Journal.
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio, born on 24/2/1967 in Borgosesia, started working as a reporter when he was only 19 years old in the alpine area of Valsesia, Piedmont, his birth region in Italy. After studying literature and history at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, he became director of the local newspaper Notizia Oggi Vercelli and specialized in judicial reporting.
For about 15 years he is a correspondent from Northern Italy for the Italian newspapers Libero and Il Giornale, also writing important revelations on the Ustica massacre, a report on Freemasonry and organized crime.
With independent investigations, he collaborates with Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza in important investigations that conclude with the arrest of Camorra entrepreneurs or corrupt politicians.
In July 2018 he found the counter-information web media Gospa News focused on geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East, and military intelligence.
His articles were published on many international media and website as SouthFront, Reseau International, Sputnik Italia, United Nation Association Westminster, Global Research, Kolozeg and more…
His investigations was quoted also by The Gateway Pundit, Tasnim and others
He worked for many years for the magazine Art & Wine as an art critic and curator.
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This was an indigenous revolt that was hijacked by the NGOs clowns and that beast from foggy
bottom.
The U.S. and gun laws and what’s going on in Sri Lanka . . . apples to oranges.
The article is all over the place, and shouldn’t it be about Ranil Wickramasinghe resigning via a tweet or email?
Anyway, Sri Lanka has been focused on for it raw materials, and over the years has been eco-terrorized and raw materials strip mined. Why not mention all the flooding Sri Lanka has had recently as a result, rather than waste space writing about apples and oranges? The flooding cause massive land slides, no? He and his co-horts profited, and his country floods and the mountains wash away. Don’t they do a lot of off-shore banking there as well. Yeah, the guy got what he got. Maybe he should have ruled the country a little better?
“(T)he Covid-19 induced ‘Global Reset’ to benefit the global corporates backed by the NATO-QUAD military business industrial complex”.
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“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the nation’s first Foundry for American Biotechnology today to produce biotechnological solutions. It is part of an integrated plan for the United States protect against and respond to health security threats, enhance daily medical care, and add to the U.S. bioeconomy. This program is part of the Precision Medicine, One Health mandate for the world. This promises to be a major disruptor to American health and economy as stealth technology and precision weapons, one must assume in medicines and engineered cells/tissues, are deployed”.
Pharmacogenomics looks at how your DNA affects the way you respond to drugs.
Precision Medicine Initiative, is “an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person.”
To the psychopaths that own Everything and crave yet more, we are nothing but animals to be kept on a leash.
Artificial Intelligence of things (AIoT) is an emerging field which combines “Artificial Intelligence” and the “Internet of things” with an aim to proactively manage the operations and efficiency of smart devices and industrial systems.
Electronic, medical surveillance implant, legal instrument-
Tethered to AIoT via ‘Covid’ ‘vaccine’ ingredient your day to day behaviour in accordance with any State directives will determine the ‘medication’ you will receive.
You could be euthanized if found roaming without a tether.
“Pharmacogenomics looks at how your DNA affects the way you respond to drugs.”
Unsure if this statement statement is a positive comment, or an ominous warning.
Doctors can’t even read an x-ray accurately, and they couldn’t give a rat’s patoot what the patients’ chart notes read. Yeah, they’re going to look at DNA and how our DNA (isn’t that, like, part of our body?) responds to drugs?!? Oh, please . . .
“””Doctors can’t even read an x-ray accurately, and they couldn’t give a rat’s patoot what the patients’ chart notes read. Yeah, they’re going to look at DNA and how our DNA (isn’t that, like, part of our body?) responds to drugs?!? Oh, please . . .”””
Biteme, it may be two different kinds of doctors.
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