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- Risky racial business in Malaysia
- COMMENT Najib has got bigger concerns to worry about than his whole 1Malaysia charade and baiting the Chinese.
- Sabah, Sarawak: Overdrawn at the vote bank
- COMMENT 'Sarawak and Sabah have so much more to offer Malaysia than natural resources if only we play our cards right.'
- Things to do when you claim 'neutrality'
- COMMENT ‘It's impossible to remain neutral ... and if I came across anyone advocating such, I'd be the first to fire off a few salvos.'
- A history of a Malaysian ship of fools
- COMMENT The problem with Umno is that they have never been interested in the history of a people, but rather the history for a people. Those ‘people' of course being Umno.
- Independence at 55: Form over substance
- COMMENT The separate Merdeka day celebrations last week were the harbinger of the shape of things to come.
- PDRM in a state of unrest
- COMMENT Massaging statistics and reclassifying crimes is hardly new when it comes to law enforcement agencies worldwide.
- Sympathy for our Malaysian devils
- COMMENT 'The funny thing is, this has been the most honest Mahathir has ever been... I mean, accidently honest.'
- The hudud card - MCA's big chill
- COMMENT MCA is akin to the wounded soldier in the battlefield, who is being dragged along by his comrades out of charity.
- The partisan nature of BN-Pakatan conflict
- COMMENT 'Each side is peddling a different thing, playing on our sentiments. Umno is peddling fear, while Pakatan hope.'
- The years of living racially
- COMMENT 'Niat's demands for an Indian Malaysian DPM is in effect threshing away in racial quicksand and worsening the situation.'
- Umno cybertroopers: A clockwork 'jingga'
- COMMENT 'The reason why the BN hate is concentrated online is because there is no place to air contrarian views in the mainstream press.'
- Waytha - the Hindraf game changer?
- COMMENT 'I'm of the opinion that a group like Hindraf works best as an advocacy group instead of a political party.'
- Malaysia's Patriot Games
- COMMENT The irony is that what Umno fears most is the day when it would no longer be necessary for some to speak truth to Umno power.
- Who watches the racemen?
- COMMENT 'Islam and Malay rights can never be questioned, which is why meritocracy is equated with the Red Scare and S'pore is the bogeyman.'
- Through the looking glass: Losing one's religion
- COMMENT By now readers are probably wondering why S Thayaparan is going on about the ‘Islamic' issue when obviously there are bigger fish to fry.
- Perhaps not a dictator, but clearly an autocrat
- COMMENT 'His was not the tyranny of bullets... Keep the people separated by giving in to their communalist desires.'
- Orwellian road to national harmony
- COMMENT Which genius in Putrajaya came up with name ‘National Harmony Act', which immediately draws Orwell darts.
- MCA vs DAP: Race in, race out
- COMMENT 'MCA doesn't really need the former PM to tarnish its credibility. The MCA is doing a sterling job on its own.'
- Be cool in God's country
- COMMENT Pakatan loyalists would like to put Islamic state on the backburner but some PAS leaders are still stirring the hudud pot.
- A real Malaysian ghost story
- COMMENT What would Umno do on communal expectations if their BN partners are wiped out in the coming GE?
- Dr Mahathir's bad medicine
- COMMENT In essence what Mahathir the predatory politician has been doing his entire career is setting traps for willing victims.
- For Umno, 'V' is for Vindictive
- COMMENT Even if there's change in Putrajaya, don't be naïve enough to think there'll be no backroom deals between Pakatan Rakyat and BN...
- Deaths in custody - the hurt lock-up
- COMMENT Sentence meted out, but A Kugan's family will never know the truth. Neither will we.
- The great Umno man's burden
- COMMENT The myopic belief that Umno and Umno alone should lead the Malay community is a doubled-edged sword.
- Through the Hindraf looking glass
- COMMENT The lure of a race-based solution to problems is hypnotic. So how does Pakatan deal with Hindraf?
- An undignified exit for Tunku Aziz
- COMMENT His actions in the past few days have effectively destroyed whatever bit of myth making was due his way.
- The deceivers, the believers and the faithful
- COMMENT The fatwa council's edict on demos is rather strange given Muslim Brotherhood's role in Tahrir Square rallies.
- Racial unity: True Malaysian lies
- COMMENT The goal of the state is not to forge one common entity or identity. Instead, it should ensure there is no disparity of treatment among the ethnic groups.
- Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining
- COMMENT 'Being peaceful does not mean abiding by unfair laws. It means abiding by the will of the majority who were there to protest in a peaceful manner those unjust laws.'
- PDRM - the armed division of Umno
- In a sense, Najib is right. The police are victims.