Peace for the World

Peace for the World
First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Lessons of the West, this week


Uditha Devapriya-2017-02-14

Reports indicating that Donald Trump might issue a new Executive Order to bypass the Circuit Court of Appeal suspension of his earlier order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries amuse me. They amuse me because the West, for all intents and purposes, is witnessing the same paradigm shift it tried to prevent in the East. They amuse me because the United States of America has elected arguably the most populist leader since Andrew Jackson, whose approval ratings have since plummeted.