The Third Force To get the ball rolling, let us recap some of the highlights from part 2 (READ HERE), with emphasis on the timeline of events as they had unfolded: Date Gap Event…

It is clear our nation’s parliamentary and governance systems have been fractured so much that we can't even see a single Westminster quality in it WH Cheng, Berita Daily Until today, we are…

Central to their world view is the belief that communities cannot live together with Muslims, and every day their antennae will be tuned towards finding supporting evidence. Nicolas Hénin, The…

Ahmad Mustapha Hassan, The Ant Daily Umno which was established in 1946, came into being to safeguard the interests of Malay aristocracy. In order to attract the support of the Malay masses it…

Angry words, slashed tyres and a death threat – these are some of the things that have resulted from the bitter rivalry between PAS and Amanah in Kelantan. Joceline Tan, The Star THERE was…

Tay Tian Yan, My Sin Chew The political situation in this country comes close to the haze condition. With fewer hot spots around in recent days, things are brightening up quite a lot nowadays.…

Implementation is key - you cannot govern just on insight and ideas Karamjit Gill, Free Malaysia Today DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang’s most recent revelation that Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak…

Muhyiddin and Mahathir's alleged sins may hinder their campaign to gain allies against Najib Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today It seems that Muhyiddin Yassin has at last stepped into his role as…

The only retributory consolation in this sorry state of affairs is that Mahathir lives to see how impossible he has made it for the people of this country to remove a corrupt regime Neal K,…

Umar Mukhtar Prime Minster Najib Razak can never be a chauvinist anything. His intelligence may make him understand what chauvinism entails but he will never have the true 'feel' for…

Lavish lifestyles funded by ill-gotten wealth is not a uniquely Najib problem. Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today Mahathir Mohamad has reinvented himself to be a champion of the people, a voice…

Jakim has not contributed anything worthwhile to the development of Islam in Malaysia. Their Facebook and Twitter accounts have no discussion at all on Islamic philosophy, but is rather about…

95.7% of students had partaken in some form of plagiarism, 96% had shared an assignment with other students, 93% had cheated during tests, 92% had falsified data, 86% had cheated in exams, and 90%…

Umar Mukhtar Many political observers had made the connection that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad would have found it very difficult to cling on to his twenty-two years of premiership had it not been…

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s plan to have a ‘council of elders’ to advise the Prime Minister of his choice is beyond bizarre and flies in the face of a modern democracy. Joceline Tan, The Star…

Umar Mukhtar Anwar Ibrahim, at one time the enfant terrible of Malaysian politics, is his own worst enemy. One has the feeling that chauvinism wasn't his true passion of choice. Politics and…

Umar Mukhtar In the aftermath of the so-called racial riots of May 13, 1969, the one character who took advantage of the country's latent racial tension was Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. With the…

All these ideologies claim to be movements to mobilise their people and to protect them from threats to their existence, and along the way, they come out with policies and laws to segregate…

To call for moderation and good governance is to make a political statement T K Chua, Free Malaysia Today Today’s statement by G25, the group of prominent retired Malay civil servants and…

The lack of leadership material in the country means a shift in power is near impossible. Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today Prime Minister Najib Razak will likely remain Prime Minister for the…

Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today Rarely has a minister ever provoked as much public outrage as Abdul Rahman Dahlan has over the past few months. Since stepping up to join the Cabinet of Loyalists,…

Umar Mukhtar The opposition is really looking forward to PRU14. They hear all the unhappiness expressed by the Rakyat about the government in power and they notice that the government is not…

A survey shows that the Malays distrust not only DAP, but also PAS and PKR Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today The Ilham Centre recently published the results of a survey on Malay voter sentiment…

Umar Mukhtar Come to think of it, what can a public debate like that one achieve? If you are anti-1MDB, you are not going to believe anything Arul Kanda says anyway. Similarly, pro-1MDB…

It is professionalism and the clear use of facts that is called for in parliamentary debates Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today With the PM at his lowest in opinion polls, Umno and the Putrajaya…

Rohaizad seems to be plastering up the murders with patchwork rhetoric and a lot of froth and foam. He’s only interested to tell you what he thinks you ought to know, which basically, is nothing.…

And what’s worse is the fact that Ismail is in a position to address the problem. Zan Azlee, The Malaysian Insider I have always found a majority of Malaysians as being apathetic in many…

Gani chose to appear as defender of an “anti-terrorism” law introduced and now abused by the government, and he studiously and pointedly refused to comment on the abuse.  Rama Ramanathan, The…

If the law of the jungle dictates the right to rule on physical strength, democracy dictates the same on the strength of numbers. The end result is the same, namely, the trampling of minority…

Prior to the judicial crisis in 1988, we heard serious rumblings from the executive about court interpretations, which went against the intent of the authorities. Checks and balances and the…