Umar Mukhtar
With his trademark cynical smirk, the old retired tin-pot dictator came down to inspect the troops. And they responded with rounds and rounds of mindless applause, even though the…
You cannot change the government by merely staging protests because like it or not, the reality is that the present government is legitimately elected with still two years to go, no matter how…
The sizeable Malay crowd in the previous rallies was clearly missing this time round and the lack of demographic mix is a cause for concern for some.
Shahanaaz Habib, The Star
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Salleh Said Keruak
Last night, Clare Rewcastle Brown of Sarawak Report went on Sky TV news in the UK to talk about her ‘fight’ for Malaysia. She talked at length about how she uncovered…
KTemoc Konsiders
Malaysiakini - Pro-Najib blog whacks Dr M over rally rendezvous
Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been consistent in his opposition to street protests, and his administration had come…
Hafidz Baharom, The Malaysia Insider
The Bersih protest is still ongoing, yet there are already those wondering just where are the Malays since their attendance has dropped to ranging from 10%…
Dr. Hsu's forum
Bersih 4.0 entered its second day today. I walked yesterday among the crowd, hot and tired, but the hope of a better governance has kept me going. ( refer to my post yesterday).…
Andy West, Malay Mail Online
One of the great paradoxes of modern society is that those bestowed with the greatest level of public trust tend to be those who most abuse it.
Look at leading…
The Old Man is a player and Malaysians need to play hard ball now to get out of their current mess.
Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today
In these days of instant communication, my closest…
The way the police and the Home Minister are behaving gives the false impression that the country is under threat and that chaos is about to rain on the nation.…
I know that on the one hand they are thrilled by the idea of ordinary Malaysians supporting their cause, but they cannot have their cake and eat it too.
Umar Mukhtar
With the declared…
For Najib Razak, the Malaysian prime minister beset by controversy over nearly £450 million paid into his personal bank account, the timing of a global anti-corruption conference in Kuala Lumpur…
Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi appears to have a six-month timeframe in mind to take over as Prime Minister.
Shane Fuentes, FMT
Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has problems in…
For us who have close, personal inter-racial and inter-religious friendships, the greatest fear is always that there comes a day where we have to choose sides.
Nicholas Chan, TMI
This is not…
It is not cool for any political party to hijack the Bersih 4 rally and carelessly add on another demand at the very last minute. Here’s looking at you PKR and PKR Youth. You are not the…
Here we go again!
Coconuts KL
Three years after the mammoth Bersih 3.0 rally, the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) has called for another Bersih rally. Dubbed Bersih 4.0, the…
By the look of things, DAP has gone all out to get members and Chinese to come out for Bersih 4.0 which will be a 34 hours gathering on 29-30th August to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Kota…
Rita Jong and Ian McIntyre, The Ant Daily
Apart from giving rise to a new crop of office bearers, leadership tussles in political parties in Malaysia often lead to the formation of new parties as…
Bersih now seems more like a group of chanting, raving sloganeers who've forgotten about the cause for free and fair elections.
Mikha Chan, Free Malaysia Today
Revolution is an ugly, drunken…
It's risky for him to oust Muhyiddin, but neither can he afford to keep him as his deputy in the party.
Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today
The bell has begun to toll for Muhyiddin Yassin. Since…
According to blogger Raja Petra, the PM has a plan that will thwart a no-confidence vote in Parliament
Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today
Controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin has lately…
The Third Force
Historical narratives on political conspiracies have always been tainted with acts of subversion by Fifth Columnists. In Malaysia, the Confederates of the Fifth Column engaged…
Special Task Forces - there were 3, the first 2 in March, the latest in July - which one is no more, and which one is still in existence?
Charles Hector
Confronting Malaysia is perspectives…
How to justify someone else’s freedoms except to cast them as being sinful? It doesn’t matter if they are innocent children, they have to be as suppressed as our children are. Only then can there…
Salleh Said Keruak
Malaysians claim they are loyal Malaysians but we seem to have lost the spirit of nationalism.
In sports we seem to have discarded ethnicity in favour of nationalism and…
SeaDemon Says
A friend wrote this to me:
“I disagree with Sanusi Junid that Najib is the person that made UMNO weak. Mahathir is the root cause of UMNO weakening. But he did make UMNO strong…
Greg Lopez, Malay Mail Online
It was 1991.
I was 19. I was having a wonderful time at the legendary Setapak High (a high school in Kuala Lumpur) as an Upper Six student when (Tun) Dr…
Umar Mukhtar
The thing definitive about election rallies is that the attendees are saying "We want you, not him". It celebrates a choice of definitive options. It sets the mind to evaluate a…