WorldCity uses knowledge in economics, history, jurisprudence, political science,
philosophy, social psychology, sociology, semantics, media communications and management/behavioural
science to examine problems of the world community.
In matters such as financial reform, the WorldCity essays on this home page support
the community-focused, non-conformist legacy of statesmen such as Thomas Jefferson
against the opportunist mimicry of corporate nihilism.
Several themes are discussed
on the WorldCity Discussion List. To subscribe to the list, send a blank email to:
WorldCity-subscribe@topica.com
List discussions are archived
here.
US quietly wades into South Asia 
That's a headline on the Net of the "Christian Science Monitor" newspaper.
North of India, the USSR suffered Balkanisation. "Shock Therapy" was performed on illegally awarded USAid contract by Jeffrey Sachs with psychological operations experience gained in Latin America. The task force of Sachs promoters included Chief Economist of the World Bank Lawrence Summers.
Doesn't Sri Lanka serve as a ladder just now for the Western pawnbroker to threaten India with ethnic destabilisation and then capture what the pawnbroker wants of India's assets with paper dollars that are sliding against euro currency?"
|
Definition and the Aryan mystery
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote "Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests." Axial words say more on how urban society developed. That helps us chart our future.
|
Asia for definition of Europe
|
Modern economics' anti-business missile
Wendell W. Solomons writing in "Asia Times" on April 19, 2003.
Privatisation is sold by neo-liberals as a boon to business, but as history and market performance make clear, it is in fact the drying up of the river of economic plenty by the opportunist.
|
Must India Invest in Chinese Walls?
Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry experience provides ideas on selective filtering of the best companies into industrial relationships in South Asia. Therefore while the process of creating defence safeguards for South Asia gains recognition by predators, favourable experience is very much at hand for consolidating joint, regional, harmonious development.
|
Taprobane - mystery of meaning
|
Freemason secret and today's new fascism
In Moscow, officials who served ex-President Boris Yeltsin were falling under the spotlight. During this process, a parliamentarian claimed that a key Yeltsin had aide served "the capital of the world's freemasonry - London."
|
Why We Count Seconds in Units of 60
How our way of dividing time, angles and calculating financial interest arose in ancient times.
|
Best economist in the world speaks
Out in Sri Lanka, Jeffrey Sachs chanced to put forward the idea that when a country focuses on a key sector - that helps towards economic growth. Sachs tries to provide relief from 25-year programming by neoliberalism, which cheers on the private sector and creates grounds for domestic conflict with the public sector so that the whole household lands at the pawnbrokers with development focus dissipated.
|
Historical source for behaviour adaptation to modern 7-note music
Take a magic carpet ride with the Beatles as you travel to the source.
|
Far West? How Ayn Rand Instead Scripted You for No Man's Land
An analysis of Ayn Rand's philosophy and its aspects of Russian nihilism which she implanted in America.
Edgar Alan Poe wrote: "I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence."
|
An Inconvenient History
by Anne Williamson
The corruption of the Russian economy is a direct result of U.S. sponsored aid programs. This is not nation building, but "an utterly irresponsible form of colonialism."
|
Saturday's Miracle
The historic alert of July 1992 to the World Bank's Lawrence Summers. Summers, de facto convener of U.S. consultants for reforms in Russia. The alert provided an explanation why the selected reform model would in the final account contribute to an upswing in weapons proliferation and criminality. The warning was issued before the shock therapy reforms were begun in Russia and before the currency devalued beyond 2,000% with Harvard's Monetarists at the helm.
|
Sri Lanka's Economic Holocaust: From Dr. Milton Friedman to Gen. Colin Powell
A review of the precedents for Sri Lanka's economic troubles, with suggestions for a solution.
|
A Letter to the Ambassadors
A letter to the ambassadors of the United States and of Norway to accompany the above review.
|
Stability in South Asia and Beyond
A letter to heads of missions of India, China and Russia in Colombo. The destabilisation of Sri Lanka threatens stability in India where (a)the assassination of Indira Gandhi by a Sikh extremist and (b) the soul-searching by the LTTE's Anton Balasingham on June 27, 2006 of a 'monumentalblunder' in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in Tamil Nadu - reflect India's exposure to separatism.
|
Stability in South Asia and Beyond
Letters to heads of missions of India, China and Russia in Colombo. Destabilisation of Sri Lanka threatens India with exposure to separatism.
|
Why Limited Liability Company Is Undermined by Neoliberals
Why do the funds of several religious organisations hang in balance in Sri Lanka while a bank in the capital is closed for business and its depositors, auditors and the Central Bank stand bewildered?
|
Derivations for Sinhala, Hella[s] and Law
The English set phrase "Where do you hail from?" says a good deal about our voyage to roots in civilization. This cruise provides fascinating views.
|
STOLEN LABOR The Crime about Employment
by Wanda Fish
You load sixteen ton and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
|
The Grey Lie
by Wanda Fish
The grey lie moves quickly and changes its form, like the grey dust that swallowed Manhattan when the twin towers collapsed.
|
The Terrorism Of Debt
by Wanda Fish
|
A Prime Minister on Free Trade
Presentation made to the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in Sri Lanka
|
Debacle of Voodoo Economics
by Selvam Canagaratna
Selvam Canagaratna is a company director and writer on public interest issues
|
MYSTERY 'Nothing-goes-right-in-the-country' claim
Wendell W Solomons writing in the "Sunday Observer" on July 4, 2004.
|
Asian economy desired by middlemen again
by Wendell W Solomons
|
Robert Frost
A wall decoration on the theme of the famous poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening"
|
Ernest Becker
A wall decoration with quote from the scholar
|
Ward No. 6
by Anton Chekov
|
