By Prof. Susirith Mendis (First part of this article appeared in The Island Midweek Review of 05 June 2023) Is civil disobedience violence or a prelude to violence? Civil disobedience, by generally accepted definition, entails a deliberate breach of law (usually unjust), that is committed with the intention of communicating to a broad audience, including […]
NATO wants 300,000 troops that it can quickly deploy to Europe to fend off a Russian invasion, but for now the continent is protected by just 30,000 - most of them American - on its eastern flank.