It is not only freedom to speak that should be protected. It is also about freedom once one has spoken.
Syahredzan Johan, The Star
IT is common knowledge that democracy began in Athens,…
The Third Force
This is the untold story of how the ‘Citizen’s Declaration’ really came to be. Believe it if you want to, don’t if you don’t. But let it be known that this article was written…
Does Mahathir really believe what he says or does he think we have forgotten history? The problem with lying is that if we lie too much we eventually end up believing our own lies. And that is when…
The political temperature in Johor is at an all-time high especially with Umno politicians in Johor pushing for a separate state election.
Joceline Tan, The Star
Royal help: The Sultan…
Wong Chun Wai, The Star
RED Shirts leader Datuk Md Jamal Yunus had yet to be born when the racial riots of May 13, 1969 broke out.
And that means the ikan bakar restaurant owner and…
Selvaraja Somiah
Sabah’s Watergate Scandal is the hottest news in town. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission seized RM114mil worth of assets RM53.7mil in cold cash stashed in houses and…
Lukman Sheriff, Tanjak
I refer to the article ‘Time for people to reclaim the Constitution, says Negri prince‘ in FMT yesterday.
With due respect to YM Tunku Zain, the founding president of…
The Third Force
Today, I intend to go through some questions that relate to an article I posted last Monday (link below). Some of these questions were posed to me in person, while others were…
Anwar refused to testify at his own trial to protest his innocence, and his wife also did not testify, as she had originally planned, to say that Anwar was somewhere else and was not at the scene of…
SeaDemon Says
Demikianlah ungkapan pada suatu ketika dahulu oleh seorang insan yang kini berduka cita akibat kehilangan kuasa memerintah secara proksi. Ungkapan ini amat sesuai dengan seorang…
To: The Honorable Members of Parliament of all Political Parties
Dear Yang Berhormat,
Greetings and peace to you!
I am writing to you at the request of the Heads of Churches of Malaysia, as…
Dewan Rakyat will resume sitting on the 17th of October. The Dewan Rakyat Order Paper showed that the first four items of business consists of three motions and one Government Bill. The motion by…
When Barisan Nasional lost Terengganu in 1999, Mahathir cancelled the state’s oil royalty. Now Mahathir says if Barisan Nasional loses the next election, Kelantan would be rewarded with an oil…
Mahathir should have called it a day on 15th September 2016 when the Yang di-Pertuan Agong showed him the door. But then, after failing with the Agong, Mahathir tried his luck again with the…
Mahathir controls PKR by proxy. Anwar, however, controls PAN and PPBM by proxy. Mahathir is pissed he cannot also control Umno by proxy. What a mess these people are making of Malaysian politics.…
Abdul Hadi Awang
Arab Spring. Seluruh dunia termasuk rakyat Malaysia yang tidak ada musim bernama ‘spring’ juga berminat dengannya. Musim yang dibandingkan dengan perkembangan politik dunia…
PAN cannot get more than 20,000 members in Malaysia so they are fishing amongst Malaysians overseas in an attempt to gain more support. And they are presenting themselves as PAS Baru just like…
Sometimes simple minds see things simply. And to change simple minds by introducing complex ideas can upset the balance of nature. Take a look at the conversation between a kampung Malay and his…
Hafidz Baharom, Malay Mail Online
I refer to Deouty Home Minister Datuk Seri Nur Jazlan’s words that using the authorities to maintain public order in a street protest is a waste of funds.…
The Third Force
Do we have some enigmatic times ahead of us or what? Dr. Mahathir Mohammad, the very man who once cost Bank Negara Malaysia loses worth an estimated 30 billion ringgit (almost…
Mahathir is a master of sleight of hand or silap mata. Do not watch his raised hand but monitor his hidden hand instead. When Mahathir says or does something it is always a prelude to the next…
In March last year, Fakhri Yassin, Muhyiddin’s son, and his friends, took over majority control of listed company Mulpha Land at a market valuation of RM133 million. Fakhri was named in the Panama…
The damage brought on by Jamal Yunos will haunt Barisan Nasional
Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today
As America twists and turns in an upheaval brought on by the Republicans’ championing of their…
Gopal Raj Kumar, Malaysia Outlook
What is evident in the makeup of Malaysian courts is the glaring divisions amongst its “independent minded judges” who sit on opposing sides of the political…
The uneasy co-existence of civil and Sharia law in Malaysia and the polarising ethnic and religious divides within its population could be improved by establishing an independent mediation…
Bersih did not have its eye on the ball and now it is paying for it. Instead of building bridges with the SPR, it joined the Anti-Najib Campaign. And now it is caught with its pants down.…
KTemoc Konsiders
Donald Trump is basically 'toast' after his lewd remarks about women, and it's a mere 2 months to election. All Hilary Clinton has to do is sit tight and let the shocked…
Isn’t it a mockery that objections against the EC’s proposed re-delineations are heard by the EC?
Ravinder Singh, The Heat Malaysia
Opportunity strikes but once. That golden opportunity to…
Hudud is NOT God’s law. It is preposterous for humans to make such a claim. It is a 100 per cent man-made law and that is why it has to be drafted by man, tabled in Parliament by man, approved by…