The leadership crisis in PAS has worsened with leaders from opposing camps accusing each other of being either DAP sympathisers or Umno stooges. Baradan Kuppusamy, The Sun Daily The party is…

No one can accurately spell out what that agenda is, but what’s important, it seems, is to pin every dissatisfaction down on an external party.  Emmanuel Joseph, Malay Mail Online To…

Fundamentalists embrace absolutism and refuse to accept questioning, insisting on a monolithic system of Islam based on their beliefs, and prosecuting you for thinking against their conventional…

As smartphones and social networks become more prevalent, they’ll keep allowing us “to take and distribute photographs of others and share them with friends and strangers without pausing to think…

Umar Mukhtar What in heaven's name is Prime Minister Najib Razak hanging around cabinet colleagues whom he may suspect of not supporting him, that he felt compelled to ask them to confirm his…

Umar Mukhtar A proposal to turn the mass graves of a neglected people seeking refuge and the abandoned illegal human trafficking camps in the jungles of Perlis into tourist attractions and a …

James Chin, Malay Mail Online Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir continues to play “shadow puppet politics” from the sidelines as the ruling Umno faces another crisis of confidence. In…

One wonders how much time the PM has for actual governance while he runs around putting out 1MDB's fires. Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today Some days, I really do wonder what happens up in…

Umar Mukhtar Chief hypocrite Dr Mahathir Mohamad is gloating over the announcement as reported by The Star that 1MDB is to be wound down by early next year. He has apparently won this round in…

Raggie Jessy Rafizi Ramli seems to possess an insatiable propensity to take the wraps off conspiracies. His books on UMNO have dealt with questions best left to sages of conscience and…

Former prime minister also says those elected are not impervious to removal before their term is out, an example being Badawi. Lin KayKay, Free Malaysia Today Former Prime Minister Mahathir…

In this week's episode of Art of the Matter, Art Harun talks about the recent discovery of the death camps and mass graves found in the north of Malaysia and how it has gone on for so long without…

He was jailed for stealing some rice and two cans of sardines. And now he lies buried, his body telling tales of some sort of violence that came before his death while the police regale all who…

Muhyiddin could have consulted Najib and informed him of a way to resolve the 1MDB problem. But he chose instead to air his dissatisfaction at an Umno Baru gathering that took place at Janda Baik.…

Yes, that is the genius of Mahathir. He messed up things in a way the victim has no idea of his malaise, just senses it and blames everyone except his very Torquemada. Praba Ganesan, Malay Mail…

Umar Mukhtar Before I had children, I was watching TV with a 6-year old son of a friend studying abroad, I pointed out to him a spider on the TV screen. He looked at me incredulously and said…

They are known as ‘anak Tok Guru’ or the offspring of the religious scholars and they are about to take the PAS Youth wing by storm. Joceline Tan, The Star NIK Abduh Nik Aziz caused a stir…

(NY Times) - THE standard image of dictatorship is of a government sustained by violence. In 20th-century totalitarian systems, tyrants like Stalin, Hitler and Mao murdered millions in the name of…

Alyaa Alhadjri, The Ant Daily It may be a recurring theme for PAS members but it is clear that there is no disguising the ‘battle line’ which has been drawn between the progressive and…

Umar Mukhtar That there was a massive abuse of power resulting in RM58 billion forex loss of our money by Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Anwar Ibrahim, Jaafar Husin and Nor Yaakob is well established.…

The pro-ulama group is asking PAS delegates to vote en bloc to fill the three vice-president posts with a new team. Joceline Tan, The Star PAS politician Datuk Mahfuz Omar has been singing a…

M. Bakri Musa, The Malaysian Insider Much is at stake for Malays. Only those lulled by Hang Tuah’s blustery “takkan Melayu hilang di dunia” (Malays will never be lost from this world) would…

Raggie Jessy a. May 13, 1969 (continued…) The 60’s marked the dawn of a new era in Malay politics. Despite there being steady fundamentals and ameliorating climates for businesses to…

Umar Mukhtar Of course not! The Rohingas have no choice. They are fleeing a well-documented genocide at the hands of the Burmese government. Marina Mahathir is announcing a privileged choice.…

Racial politics has characterised Malaysian society since Independence. The NEP was supposed to run from 1971 to 1990 but special “Bumiputera” privileges for the elite and their populist appeal…

Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily In what can only be termed as pre-emptive, hypocritical and detrimental to Pakatan unity, DAP has unilaterally declared its own shadow cabinet lineup on May 19, …

To save themselves from prosecution, they must demand Najib's resignation. Matthias Chang, Free Malaysia Today Even a child knows what cash is, and when cash is deposited in a bank, the bank…

The DPM has made a bold statement against 1MDB, and it's unlikely that he did it without support.  Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is in the spotlight,…

Najib’s administration is leaning towards an arrangement that will call for the national power company, Tenaga Nasional Bhd, to take over 1MDB’s power generation assets  Leslie Lopez, The Edge…

In Kelantan’s hudud enactment, the amount of blood money for a person who has been killed is only RM614. Zaid Ibrahim, The Star THOSE who advocate implementing Islamic law in Malaysia…