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| 2005-11-01 | National Front parties were not formed to fight for Malaysian independence HISTORY IS REWRITTEN EVERY day in Malaysia. Books and articles are written every day to perpetuate the myth, but the parties in the National Front was not formed for Malaysian independence. It has changed over the years as they have not now. After 50 years in power, it begins to rot, particularly in the head ... |
| 2005-10-31 | Did Lee Kuan Yew want Singapore ejected from Malaysia? IT IS FORTY YEARS SINCE Singapore was ejected from Malaysia, on 9 August 1965, less than two years after it was formed on 16 September 1963, though in Malaysia the date is August 31, and the publication two months ago of the late Patrick Keith's book, Ousted. We have different opinions on the affair. We are told, officially and in the history books, that it was a cordial affair. The Star repeats that canard ... |
| 2005-10-30 | Bush is in trouble, as Nixon was 33 years ago, with journalists going in for the kill PRESIDENT BUSH IS IN trouble. Mrs. Cindy Sheehan is to his politics what the National Guard killing undergraduates at Kent State University in 1970 was President Richard Nixon's. The Watergate scandal was the immediate cause of President Nixon's resignation ... |
| 2005-10-28 | Corruption, the politician, and the public servant THE PETALING JAYA MUNICIPAL Council allowed the former mayor of Kuala Lumpur to extend his house on its jurisdiction, and he broke every rule. Had not the Malay Mail highlighted the matter, the PJMC would not have bothered. The neighbours had protested, but it was brushed aside. So now the former mayor's wife faces a RM6 million fine, ten times what the extensions cost ... |
| 2005-10-27 | The journalist poodle has become the barnyard dog in this propaganda war DIFFERENCE OF OPINION, ESPECIALLY, in conflict is normal. To suggest the Al Qaeda is split, as the Guardian suggests yesterday (26 October), is not unusual. Just as there is a split between the United States and its allies on how to conduct the war in Iraq. But this is information war and one side is told its opponent is split ... |
| 2005-10-26 | Iraq has a brutal dictator in power now, as it has for more than 80 years BRUTAL DICTATORS IN IRAQ are not new. The British was one in iraq. So were the Sunni leaders that followed. Iraq had no free elections since the 1920s ... |
| 2005-10-25 | Business men have taken over Deepavali and Hari Raya THE BUSINESS MEN HAVE taken over Deepavali and Hari Raya Puasa. Just as they did the Christmas in 1930 in the wake of the economic slump. Christmas is not the religious festival it once was, and the celebrations with an eye to business takes priority. Deepavali and Hari Raya Puasa is fast becoming a business venture ... |
| 2005-10-22 | A bad peace is even worse than war A BAD PEACE IS EVEN WORSE THAN WAR, said Tacitus, about the Roman conquest of Britain. He also quoted the British chieftain Calgacus tell his troops about Rome's insatiable desire for conquest and plunder and to 'savage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; they make a devastation, and call it peace." He wrote this 2,000 years ago but it refers to the United States as well, now. Mr Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary and one of those who hurtled into the war in Iraq without an exit plan, said the United States was more powerful than Rome. The United States behaved now as the Romans then ... |
| 2005-10-21 | The power of rumours, and where Malaysia went wrong MALAYSIAN OFFICIALS GIVE the Prime Minister and the family the same respect they give the Royal Familes. We saw that yesterday (20 October 2005) in the death and funeral of the wife of the Prime Minister, Datin Seri Endon Mohmood. She was not the First Lady as newspapers and television networks insisted on referring to her. She was not even the Second Lady; that honour went to the deputy Yang DiPertuan Agung ... |
| 2005-10-20 | People can be led like sheep, but not always THE PEOPLE CAN BE LED like sheep. The politician knows it, the political party knows it, the people know it. People who welcomed Saddam Hussein and voted him into power, now spit at him. Why? Because they think they have a new dictator to rule them ... |
| 2005-10-19 | Saddam will be sentenced to death, but will he hang? THE GUERILLA WAR IN Iraq is against the the United States by the Iraqi Sunni. Despite what you read in the news and watch on television, it is not going well for the US. The constitution is a sham. The ministers still cannot go out of the Green Zone, the US term for the area that used to be where Saddam Hussein and his men worked and lived ... |
| 2005-10-18 | Malaysia is losing its place in Islamic affairs overseas THE MALAYSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, Dato' Syed Hamid Albar, has told Thailand not to interfere in Malaysia's internal affairs. Why he needed to do so escapes me, when he did not interfere when the Thai prime minister, Mr Thaksin Shinawatra, told Pak Lah off at the United Nations last month (September) about the situation in southern Thailand, in Dato' Syed Hamid's presence, and both did not respond. Why? It is no use playing to the gallery because UMNO general assembly is around the corner. For Malaysia's record in southern Thailand, where Thai Malays are fighting for independence from Thailand for more than a century, is based on the belief that Britain in the early years of the 20th century should have insisted on the Thai Malay provinces be given to the Malay peninsula ... |
| 2005-10-16 | Corruption makes Malaysia go around The IGP's son is arrested. He is released on bail. The IGP must resign. It does not matter if the son is eventually acquitted ... |
| 2005-10-14 | People are the same the world over THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ vote in a referendum tomorrow (October 15), not knowing what they are voting for. The United States and Britain has given their blessings. But the president and cabinet ministers, secure (so they think) in the Green Zone and not daring to go out, even to the airport, for fear of assassination or ambush, discuss the constituition as if it is the US or Italian or Malaysian. The people do not know what it is about for no politician has discussed it with him ... |
| 2005-10-13 | Too dangerous to report Iraq but not Pakistan or Guatemala THE TELEVISION NETWORKS AND newspapers are all about the South Asian earthquake, a disaster engineered by nature. There is little talk now of the man-made disaster in Iraq. When it is all over, the man-made disasters will have killed more people than nature's. As it would be in Iraq and Afghanistan than in Pakistan ... |
| 2005-10-10 | The moral fibre has gone out of Malaysian politics PAK LAH HAS NOT RESHUFFLED his cabinet since he took office in 2003. He had said the cabinet ministers are appointed by the King and loss of positions, or rejection, by the party is irrelevant and is no cause to resign from his cabinet. He leaves it to the good sense of ministers to resign. He has extended this to deputy ministers, and applied this rules to parties other than UMNO in the National Front ... |
| 2005-10-07 | The Muslim will win in Iraq PRESIDENT JALAL TALABANI HAS left the "security" of the Green Zone for the "security" of London. He wanted to tell the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, of his government's plan for the referendum on October 15. But neither he nor members of his government has visited the people of Iraq of what the referendum brings. It is too unsafe ... |
| 2005-10-06 | Rafidah Aziz has her day in Parliament, and proves it is 'us' versus 'them' in the National Front PARLIAMENT HAS BECOME A charade. The MPs from the ruling National Front are not given a free vote in the Rafidah Aziz affair. The two NF MPs who voted with the Opposition in referring Datin Seri Rafidah Aziz to the Committee of Privileges comes up for mention in newspaper reports and in Paliament as if they had done something terrible. It now seems the National Front never had any intention to put Rafidah Aziz through the hoop ... |
| 2005-10-06 | It is the crusades all over again ABU MUSAB ZARKAWI's dozen top lieutenants have been killed in Iraq, say the US military, but the mayhem, including the killing, caused by his group would continue without any let up. Abu Musab Zarkawi, in case you are wondering who he is, is, again according to the US military, Al Qaeda's top man in Iraq. Probably he is. But he is probably more adept at getting lieutenants than the US military gives him credit for ... |
| 2005-10-05 | The rules for the ruler and the ruled have changed THIS IS THE INFORMATION war. Lance Price, who has published a book of his role in lying to journalists in Great Britain under Tony Blair, said he routinely lied to journalists and the press on Tony Blair and his government. Those of the journalists who knew them as lies were immediately dubbed "conspiracy theorists", as I was for my piece yesterday (04 October 2005). It is conspiracy theory in 1965 to say that Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong would win ... |
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This archive was created as a tribute to the late veteran journalist MGG Pillai. We believed his writings are useful to develop a critical thinking analysis. By the way, the original mggpillai.com web site (2001-2006) was actually created by one of us. |