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- Umno's miseducation of Zainuddin Maidin
- COMMENT His rant against former Indonesian president BJ Habibie has all the hallmarks of Umno public relations ineptitude.
- The DAP's multiracial conundrum
- COMMENT 'Of course the DAP needs to attract more Malay, but does the DAP think that tokenism is the best way to go?'
- Non-Muslims losing the secular game
- COMMENT 'Do not blame PAS for not holding up its end of the deal when the other parties continue enabling the regime from Kelantan.'
- The MIC's bitter harvest
- COMMENT 'MIC's failure is not one of ‘race' but one of ‘class'. This should surprise nobody since the noxious fumes of ‘caste' has...'
- Malaysian politics - who dares win?
- COMMENT The mutually beneficial relationship between Umno and the Armed Forces does present a set of problems that should raise concerns.
- In the defence of our realm
- COMMENT Where stand the armed forces in our electoral process? Can it be trusted to ensure a smooth transition of power should BN lose the GE?
- Umno's war drums herald the future
- COMMENT All of Umno's actions are to gain total control and co-ordination of all aspects of Malaysian society.
- The social contract is ours to create
- COMMENT What the other side has to offer is a new social contract. What terrifies Umno that this is a social contract not based on appeasement or gratitude.
- Uthaya: Hindraf's motto is rights, not mercy
- INTERVIEW 'As the de facto leader of Hindraf, my only hope forward is the realisation of Indian majority seats as a voice at the highest political level - the Parliament.'
- Uthayakumar's uneasy ties with Pakatan
- INTERVIEW 'We choose not to interact with Pakatan Indian mandores just as we chose not to interact with MIC mandores.'
- The state's war against Uthayakumar
- INTERVIEW ‘Uthayakumar understands that his is a lone crusade. He makes no apologies in the manner in which he chooses to make his stand.'
- Can PAS hold the middle ground?
- COMMENT PAS should use its political compromise as a starting point in reforming its ideas, perhaps reconnecting with its own leftist ideology that it had abandoned.
- Welcome to Malaysia's religious jungle
- COMMENT What is more interesting are the numerous uncomfortable ideas that Nurul's 'no compulsion' statement raises.
- Zaid Ibrahim on Islam and racial politics
- INTERVIEW ‘Nurul is brave to express an opinion; but in Malaysia, Muslims have no right to an opinion on their own religion.'
- Can Pakatan trust Zaid enough to re-embrace him?
- INTERVIEW ‘I had a brief quarrel with Anwar. He called me a Trojan horse and I called him a liar. But I am not small-minded...'
- The Armed Forces in Umno quagmire
- COMMENT What the armed forces don't do is engage in the political process on behalf of their political masters.
- The cutting of Pakatan's Indian cord
- COMMENT 'Pakatan should acknowledge Hindraf and HRP as the only game in town when it comes to Indian communal interest.'
- Haris Ibrahim on Malaysian dilemmas
- INTERVIEW 'We are a rich nation, natural resources-wise. We should be giving Singapore a run for its status as the world's richest nation, per capita-wise.'
- ABU is the only answer, says Haris
- INTERVIEW 'Anything But Umno is the only conclusion you can come to if you fully understand what has gone on the last 40 years.'
- Umno's role in Malaysia's beggars banquet
- COMMENT ‘Dr M does not get to blame the Malays for the wretched state this country is in without blaming Umno as well.'
- MCA's long day's journey into night
- COMMENT All this Muslim baiting just goes to show how out of touch MCA is with our country's shifting political and cultural attitudes.
- No Brave New Malaysia
- COMMENT The majority have suffered from an affirmative action policy... perhaps the best course, as a temporary measure, is to abandon this idea.
- Barbarians on their lands
- COMMENT 'James Masing has got it wrong. The good storytellers, the self-confessed storytellers, are the propaganda arms of Umno.'
- How to stop worrying about the Jews
- COMMENT ‘This regime and its agents spew out the most virulent of anti-Semitism in the hopes that the racial fear mongering would pay dividends.'
- The spiritual is political
- UPDATED 1.31PM COMMENT 'Since religion has always been used as a political tool, I've no problem if Lim was chasing the Christian vote.'
- The women's room in Malaysia
- COMMENT The discrimination against many women is a stark contrast to Najib's belief that Malaysia is some kind of gender Utopia.
- Umno's weapons of mass distraction
- COMMENT Najib places great emphasis on ‘symbols' because they elicited the expected Pavlovian response from the majority...
- 'Innocent' and 'Tanda': Our season of fear
- COMMENT 'Innocence of Muslims' and ‘Tanda Putera' share similarities that should make M'sians sit up and question the status quo.
- Umno's nation of traitors
- COMMENT 'Umno is crying wolf against the very citizens who are doing what would benefit the country most, exercising their rights.'
- Why we need our race cards
- COMMENT 'I despise the overt racists within Umno-BN more. If we are to play the race game, then it is a game that should...'