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My last two columns focussed on how corruption has become an embedded value and culture of Umno, premised on the admission and critique by two important Umno stalwarts. This column will focus on how and why we must move beyond this form of moral and financial corruption within Umno if we want to become a […]

Through my last three columns I argued from the testimonies of insiders that Umno is corrupt to the core and it has already been badly infected with the corruption disease. The current leadership and its corruption has become too obvious for the world to ignore and we have now hit the headlines of global newspapers, […]

The 3 million-strong Christian communities in Malaysia should only support the amendments to Act 355 if and when agreed by at least a two-thirds majority of MPs in Parliament. It must also be tabled as a public policy matter by the prime minister of Malaysia. Consistency with the Federal Constitution of 1963 must be our […]

Is double-speak natural to human beings and the only way to become a true-blue politician worth his/her weight? An Umno deputy minister and an equally idiocratic deputy speaker of Parliament could not see anything wrong with that MP’s wrong speech and impure motives about another MP. The victim of this abuse was a lady Member […]

I write in English and cannot seek to address concerns of most in Malay community because frankly I cannot completely understand their irrational emotionality. I have been writing for 12 years now, and almost weekly in Malaysiakini. I chose then and will therefore continue only in English. Others are invited to translate, if needed. So far, […]

Scriptures say that the love of money, and not having money itself, is the beginning of all evil. This lesson has become obvious for all to see from the political corruption of leadership in Malaysia. Where there is greed; hate will also prevail! Therefore, we are today the favourite whipping boy of the world in […]

We saw it happen in the UK, we saw it in the Philippines, and now we see the same in the US; all three are protest votes about the operative culture of kleptocracy, managed and ordered by an equally ‘corrupt system’. Actually these are in fact the ‘new barbarians’ ready to rule in their ‘new […]

Governance is a privilege given to political parties with a commanding majority in any democracy; after a due process of a good, right, and fair selection and an election based on a choice of the people, by the people, and for the people. Some governments, nevertheless after the fact, deny even that choice, as is […]

The Sun headlined a story of an orphanage which allegedly tolerated and allowed the continuance of abuse of under-aged girls; all of whom were below 15 years of age. The abuse was reportedly condoned or tolerated by a Malaysian Datuk and Datin, who are obviously a credible Malaysian pair since they hold sultan- and Malay state-ordained […]

What is the cost of one human life? What if the person is an Islamic State (IS) terrorist? Does his life cost any less? What if the person is a Palestinian? What about an Israeli? Are there different rules of human value for different peoples? What would be that basis? Would it be colour or […]