Pakatan, Mourinho juxtaposed

Praba Ganesan, Malay Mail Online Of course they are indifferent to it. Politics is not in the school curriculum. Can’t fault people confused by developments in Pakatan Rakyat or is it Pakatan…

Defence: RMN’s Look At China

SeaDemon Says The dust has yet to settle.  Pro-US tweethandles have been lambasting Malaysia for its ‘shift’ in trade approach – a whopping RM143.64 billion (USD34.4 billion) worth of MoUs have…

Voting out democracy

So if a nation is “owned” by its citizens and they don’t find the two candidates vying for the job of president, which is like the ultimate CEO, suitable for a wide variety of reasons, why should…

Has PKR been Soros-ized?

KTemoc Konsiders From the Malay Mail Online about Soros funding PKR (extracts): Former Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) supreme council member Datuk Lokman Noor Adam said he was not surprised with…

Pribumi: shot down before taking off

Cliques are quite normal in political parties, said Khairuddin, Mahathir’s Gurkha. But normally you have to wait some time for cliques to form. And they normally form when they smell power. But…

Enough with the complaints

Here's the news. We are in fact a third world country. Daniel Chandranayagam, The Sun Daily IT was a fine rainy Tuesday morning when I opened up social media with a cup of coffee, after…

We aren’t a ‘safety first’ people

Let us not kid ourselves into believing we are actually in the safety first mindset when as parents, members of society or even voters, don't even believe in it. Hafidz Baharom, The Heat Malaysia…

Former enemies now frenemies

Joceline Tan, The Star DAP’s newsmaker and parliamentarian Jeff Ooi marked the 29th anniversary of the notorious Operation Lalang on his Facebook. “Ops Lalang ... 29 years today. A…

So what if Bersih is pro-opposition?

Boo Su-Lyn, Malay Mail Online Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan accuses Bersih of trying to “topple“ the Barisan Nasional (BN) government, which he uses as justification to blacklist government-linked…

Time for an apology, Dr Mahathir

29 years after Operation Lalang, the time is now ripe for Dr Mahathir Mohamad to apologise to both the victims and the nation Kua Kia Soong, Free Malaysia Today This 29th anniversary of the…

Ops Lalang: Malaysia 29 years later

Widely blamed as the architect of Ops Lalang in his bid to keep power and fight off political foes within and without the original Umno that was declared illegal in 1988, Dr Mahathir today is on…

Back to Politics 101

Who asked them to have so much wealth, to live in a big house and to drive a fancy car? If they didn’t have any of that, then there wouldn’t be any thievery. Azmi Sharom, Brave New World, The…

Ibrahim Ali and Perkasa have gone MIA

Mahathir formed Perkasa in 2008 to be Umno’s militant wing and to defend Umno from the ‘Chinese Tsunami’. DAP said 90% of the Chinese are behind the opposition while only 50% of the Malays support…

A Christian’s appeal to Amanah

All Malaysians must stand up and object to the tabling of the amendments to the Shariah Courts Criminal Jurisdiction law KJ John, Free Malaysia Today As a Christian, I wish to congratulate and…

Umno’s two souls

Clive Kessler, The Malay Mail Online Among my friends, including my co-authors in this brave new book, I am often seen, I admit — and on their part pityingly — as some sort of Umno “softie”, an…

The waltz around Hadi’s bill

It is not only the “for” that have been misunderstood. The “against” have also been misrepresented. Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today After allowing Hadi Awang’s private member’s bill to…