You, of all people, Kua Kia Soong, do not stand on any moral high ground. So do not moralise with me. Did your SUARAM not lie to the French court and claim that you have locus standi regarding the…

LSS Report Reading Mahathir's blog post yesterday titled "Najib's achievements", I am struck by the amount of half-truths, spins and outright lies in it. As I have been on FaceBook for 2 1/2…

Adviser to SUARAM slams RPK for his "perplexing volte face" that saw the once pro-Anwar blogger now throwing his weight behind Najib Razak instead. Kua Kia Soong, Free Malaysia Today Having put…

Manjit Bhatia, New Mandala In hounding Malaysia’s scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak from office, the autocratic Dr Mahathir, his old foes and others have moulded a union — of sorts.…

Umar Mukhtar For the past week, the new allies of Dr. Mahathir Mohamad have been stumbling over each other to defend their move to embrace their hitherto declared enemy as their new informal leader…

LSS Nawaf Obaid is the brother of Tarek Obaid, the co-founder of PetroSaudi with Prince Turki Abdullah, the 7th son of King Abdullah and the then Governor of Riyadh. Nawaf Obaid is a frequent…

If Pakatan Harapan were to win the next election, the current leader of the coalition might not be a suitable prime minister because she probably would not have the majority support of Pakatan…

It was through collaboration with a number of opposition parties that the BN was created. Moves of this sort are not uncommon in the realm of party politics. Parties and groups associate with one…

Selepas sistem dipecahkan, ia haruslah dipastikan tidak diganti oleh pengganti yang berkemungkinan menjadi diktator yang baru. Harris Nasril Filem Hunger Games merupakan satu filem yang…

Is the Citizens' Declaration a one-day – or at best, a one-week - news story that is now already stale and forgotten? Or can it really galvanise the opposition and public? Lim Teck Ghee, The…

The Third Force That’s what some of my critics have been asking me repeatedly. And it’s not the only issue they have with me. In the thick of a bruising media-fuelled spat between Tun Dr. Mahathir…

Salleh Said Keruak Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's latest Blog posting, 'Sacking and Popularity', seems to have missed the point. Dr Mahathir no longer seems to be following the plot and his comments…

Umar Mukhtar It does seem to me now that in Malaysia criminal liability is subject to popular discretionary judgement. Prime Minister Najib Razak, though yet to be prosecuted by a court of law,…

Boo Su-Lyn, Malay Mail Online Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and other prominent politicians and civil society leaders announced their “Citizens’ Declaration” with much fanfare, but their Save…

Tan Sri Zulhasnan Rafique For more than a year most of UMNO and Barisan Nasional grassroots leaders and members have been silently keeping quiet while the attacks against Prime Minister Dato'…

And that was when they decided to close down TMI. But of course they are going to try to make it appear like they are closing down because of action by the Malaysian government that does not…

Malaysians might agree with some reluctance to forgive and forget and unite around a meaningful platform for change but not around such an insipid, uninspiring and incomplete declaration. Dennis…

"Bottom line, the PM will decide on who he thinks will be a set of safe hands and make sure that the thinking at Bank Negara is in line with his administration" Leslie Lopez, The Straits Times…

No matter how he got the money but the amount is too big to be a donation. No PM of Malaysia should accept that amount of money especially from a foreign national. Certainly it should not be a…

Has this latest persecution of the media by Putrajaya made a difference in the way Malaysians comprehend the many controversies implicating the country's top leadership? Jeswan Kaur, Berita…

Razaleigh's 2009 reform road map is more clear and comprehensive than anything from Mahathir. Koon Yew Yin, Free Malaysia Today Over the past 10 years I have written a great deal about…

Umar Mukhtar Please do not blame DAP for the ills that have befallen this nation. They have never been in power to be able to wreak any havoc. Even if you may feel if they had the power, God…

The Malaysian Observer The overall problem I see with those who would like to see the PM removed from office is the hypocrisy. They are like wolves dressed like sheep in order to get close…

But Mahathir is only giving an appearance that he wants Najib ousted. That may have been the original plan back in 2014. However, that is no longer the plan because that would benefit Zahid rather…

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is not in a good place at the moment. His crusade to topple the Prime Minister is not getting rave reviews and now he has been axed as Petronas adviser. Joceline Tan,…

A Jalil Hamid, NST IS it a citizens’ revolt or just a “very strange group of people” of various political stripes getting together without a real purpose? One foreign commentator of Malaysian…

COMMENT: Ooi’s article makes an interesting read. I see it as an attempt by someone from the Penang Institute, a think tank of the DAP  state government, to justify DAP’s political pragmatism in…

Umar Mukhtar DAP has an uncompromising approach in what it believes. Since it represents a minority community and because of that uncompromising approach, it will never expand beyond…

What they plan to do if and when Najib is ousted -- which is to free Anwar from jail -- is one thing. Even more important would be the method employed in freeing Anwar from jail. PKR has not told…

Umar Mukhtar Pakatan Harapan is an opposition front that housed all those parties, except now PAS, that got together previously under Anwar Ibrahim's Pakatan Rakyat with the common intention of…