TheAltWorld Strings Attached: Western Banks and Sri Lanka’s Political Crisis
- Rania Khalek
- Saturday 23 Jul 22
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Sri Lanka has seen mass protests for weeks that drove President Rajapaksa from power. But now the protests have been dispersed and his close ally — a six-time Prime Minister and acting President — has been appointed to replace him.
Niyanthini Kadirgamar, PhD student at University of Amherst and member of Sri Lanka’s Feminist Collective for Economic Justice, explain.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.
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