people’s alliance for what?

 This time round, the PAD demands that Thailand PM Sundaravej resigns.   But going by their track records, they will still not be satisfied until ultimately they succeed in installing themselves as the government.

They pulled their first stint in 2006, rallying street protests that brought about, with the cooperation of the Thai army, the end of […]

sarah palin

 I told you so:  John McCain is quite capable of wresting back the media’s attention.  (A couple months back, he had grumbled about the media’s bias favoring Barack Obama.  * read that posting) 

Sarah Palin, McCain’s choice of running mate, is now the talk of the town.  Poor lady!  They are having a field day digging […]

money and politics

 Anwar Ibrahim’s victory at the Permatang Pauh by-election adds fuel to his scheme to incite ruling party MPs to defect to his opposition coalition.  With enough crossovers (30 to be exact), he will topple the Malaysian government and claim his premiership. 

But which carrot is Anwar dangling as the bait?  Just what does it take to […]

mixed signals

 Too often, the political and military measures the US takes run counter to the very roles it wants to be seen to play, namely as peace maker and advocate for democracy.   

The US has been consciously beefing up its military presence in Eastern Europe under the pretext of building a defense shield against rogue states and […]

pc named after pm

 They had either meant it as an honor, or a dubious one, when they named a soon-to-be-launched notebook i-Dola after Malaysia’s PM Abdullah Badawi (Dola, short for Abdullah), and a PC Jean-i after his wife. (*ref article below) 

When functioning properly, the garbage-in-garbage-out machines are subject to control by others, namely the users.  Otherwise, they slow […]

anwar ibrahim’s sodomy case

 Former Canadian PM Paul Martin, ex-World Bank chief James Wolfensohn and former head of IMF Michael Camdessus are neither friendly nor diplomatic when they jointly call for Malaysia to drop its sodomy charges against Anwar Ibrahim. (* link below) 
For all the conspiracy speculations that float around, the fact remains that it was Saiful Azlan, Anwar […]

mccain’s media woes

 I may be in a completely different league from John McCain, but I can certainly identify with his frustration with the media’s bias in his bid for that top job. 
In fact, most people with some years in the corporate world will understand: only those select few get noticed, and they get all the pats on […]

icj’s role in territorial dispute

 UNESCO conferring the ancient Preah Vihear temple as World Heritage Site, and the exploitation of it by Thai protestors as another reason for Thai PM Sundaravej to step down, are only triggers to the armed military standoff between Thailand and Cambodia. 
The true cause of the spat is the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) ruling in […]

mccain on the iraq war

 Five years on, with troop loss in excess of 4000, John McCain’s reference to the Iraq war as ‘a proving ground for the tactics needed to beat back a resurgent Taleban’ comes across to me as rather tactless. (*see below ) 
Think of those who have lost their sons, husbands or fathers.  If they had finally come […]

the accusation simply doesn’t add up

 Saiful Bukhari Azlan must have been nothing short of a drop-dead irresistible object of lust if there is any truth in his allegation that Anwar Ibrahim sodomized him last Thursday. 
First and foremost, Anwar Ibrahim already believed that he was within reach of the Prime Minister position he had eyes on since more than a decade ago.  […]