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…

Lim Sian See has rattled off a long list of queries directed to Tun Dr. Mahatir in his LSS Report blog, ostensibly to extract truth behind his motivations and actions. But truth is in rare…

Choo Sing Chye It is tiring to argue subjectively on the merits and demerits of a political party without first knowing its conventions or rules that guide its actions. If we do this, our…

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…

Today, politicians are saying the MOH is going to lose votes for the government, so allow vaping culture. Tomorrow you are going to say that rempits should be allowed to race too because you need…

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…

DAP has already spoken to Muhyiddin Yassin and the ex-Deputy Prime Minister has agreed to help resolve this problem when he becomes Prime Minister. So DAP is backing Muhyiddin in the effort to oust…

So there you are, four bullets and all duds. So the 1MDB and RM2.6 billion issues are not going to bring down Najib after all. So they may need to go back to the Altantuya Shaariibuu issue and try,…

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…

All their life they speak Mandarin, listen to Mandarin songs, watch Mandarin TV programs, mingle only with their own kind. In short, the Chinese live within their own colony and in their own…

Why drag in the police? Najib Razak should just sue Tun Mahathir for slander, or civil defamation—that, at least, is how a man should behave. Zaidgeist For the first time in our history, the…

 It has been two months since the Bersih rally and suddenly, out of the blue, is it merely sheer coincidence that the police require Basheer’s attendance on the day of his final exams? Tony Pua…

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…

Poverty triggers dissent and wealth triggers peace. More than 200 years of history has proven this. As they say, money talks, bullshit walks. So, Umno had better ‘talk’ and not ‘bullshit’ because…

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…

LSS Report This is my response to Tun Mahathir's blog post today. His points are in Bold. 1. Wednesday’s (November 4, 2015) paper reports that we are not facing a financial crisis and we are…

If that is how Husam wants to play the game then we can also allege that a Chinese gambling towkay is financing his political activities. He also doctored the Minutes of the Kelantan EXCO meeting…

Malaysian Digest The much anticipated 1MDB debate on live TV which was supposed to take place today hit a snag yesterday when DAP withdrew Tony Pua, their star crusader against 1MDB due to…

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.…

In my view there is no such thing as an Islamic scholar, especially in Malaysia. OutSyed the Box This is an essay from Middle East sources. It is written by Hakim Khatib. Truncated for quick…

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…

The Chinese chap then shouts out to all and sundry, “Hey everyone. Look at this cowardly Jew. He does not dare fight my sister. He is giving stupid excuses that his fight is with me and not with…

So there you have it. Arul Kanda is still prepared to debate Tony Pua and he has suggested ways in how it can be done. So Tony Pua can still debate Arul Kanda, and instead of asking Rafizi Ramli…

No doubt there is now one more factor that did not exist in the last 11 general elections -- and that is PAS now has a competitor for the ‘Muslim vote’ in the form of PAN. But we are yet to see…