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• Stop Race Baiting and Listen More to Voter Signals

  
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  June 17, 2013 MY COMMENT : The last election was divisive and disturbing as UMNO played the race card to regain Malay support. They got it but at the expense of national unity. It was the rural heartland and the conservative Malays who gave UMNO-BN the mandate to govern while the urbanites showed their ...
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• Stop Najib and Anwar from playing political games at our expense

  
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  June 16, 2013 MY COMMENT: It is time to tell both Najib and Anwar straight to their faces that they should not treat all of us as a bunch of  idiots. I am glad that CT Ali has taken on the task of delivering the first salvo to these politicians. Najib should perform his duties as Prime Minister and ...
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• Tengku Razaleigh: A De Gaulle or Rab Butler of Malaysian Politics

  
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  June 14,2013 MY COMMENT: In my book, YBM Tengku Razaleigh has all the makings to be our next Prime Minister. He combines experience in public administration and political wisdom. The Tengku was groomed by Tun Razak at an early age for this top post. He was Chairman of PERNAS and PETRONAS and Bank Bumiputra, ...
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• Najib seeks new Allies to survive in UMNO Politics

  
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  June 14, 2014 MY COMMENT: When he took over the premiership from Abdullah Badawi, Najib had a unique opportunity to be his own man. He launched 1Malaysia, his Economic Transformation Programme and New Economic Model and amended draconian laws to allow more freedom to express their views. Four years on, and now ...
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• Halim’s Suit and Political Business

  
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  June 14, 2013 MY COMMENT : An outstanding manager who built Renong into a darling of our stock exchange in 1990s became a victim of politics. NEP was supposed to help build a core of Malay-Bumiputra businessmen but in actuality it became a tool to cut down to size successful individuals like Halim Saad. ...
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• PART 2: Malaysia’s GE13, What happended, what NEXT?

  
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  June 14, 2013 PART 2 Malaysia’s GE13: What happened, what NEXT? By Clive Kessler, Guest Contributor – June 13, 2013 The the first part of this commentary analysed the paradoxical outcome of PRU13. It traced how the election of a reduced Barisan Nasional presence and increased opposition ...
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• Malaysia’s GE-13: What happened, What Now?

  
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  June 14, 2013 Malaysia’s GE-13: What happened, What Now? PART 1 By Clive Kessler, Guest Contributor –  June 12 2013 In a brief commentary elsewhere (“Malaysia’s election result — no surprise to the knowledgeable,” Asian Currents , June 2013), I have noted one paradoxical but hugely ...
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• Bahrain officials identify and arrest members of February 14 Movement

  
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  Photo Credit: AFP The Bahrain Interior Ministry announced that it had identified members of the February 14 movement who have alleged links to “a string of crimes committed over the last few months.” It named 11 arrested suspects as well as 13 individuals “who were leading the coalition from abroad, some ...
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• Congress urged to cut aid over NGO verdicts, as Egypt’s Brotherhood ‘turns to flour power’

  
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  Members of the House of Representatives believe that there is “enough support in Congress to slow, if not halt entirely, economic aid to Egypt” over the conviction of 43 pro-democracy activists , McClatchy reports . Meanwhile, the ruling Muslim Brotherhood …
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• ‘Resistanbul’? EU accession the cure for Turkey’s ills

  
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  Turkey’s demonstrators have claimed affinity with the pro-democracy protesters of Egypt’s Tahrir Square and taken to calling the country’s largest city  “Resistanbul.” “But Taksim was never Tahrir , let alone Tiananmen, because Turkey is not a dictatorship,” says a prominent …
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• Iran’s reformists hopeful on eve of presidential poll, as Neda’s death ‘haunts voters’

  
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  “With Iran’s conservative camp divided, reformists were confident of a good showing by the moderate cleric they back in Friday’s presidential vote as they seek to avenge the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad four years ago,” AFP’s Farhad Pouladi reports …
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• On Reconciliation

  
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  June 13, 2013 MY COMMENT: Immediately after being re-elected and given a fresh mandate (and this is being disputed in certain quarters), Prime Minister Najib promoted the idea of national reconciliation. His colleagues talk differently; they are in favour of denying development in constituencies which rejected ...
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• Smells Really Bad

  
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  Here’s a letter to WTOP Radio: Perhaps NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander is correct that, as you report, “that once-secret surveillance programs disrupted dozens of terrorist attacks” (“ Programs disrupted dozens of attacks ,” June 12). Of course, we can never know.  That’s the nature of secret ...
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• Pathways to Freedom? Egypt’s NGOs and transition on trial

  
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  An Egyptian criminal court’s sentencing of 43 NGO workers  is “not just a sign of a weak and faltering democratic transition,” says Council on Foreign Relations analyst Terra Lawson-Remer . “By discouraging the formation of a vigorous civil society, they …
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• In the hot land, Mexicans just say no to drug cartels

  
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  Los Angeles Times By Tracy Wilkinson June 11, 2013 COALCOMAN, Mexico — Rafael Garcia slaps the oversize wooden desk where he sits, one of the last mayors still in office in this region of Mexican farm country known as Tierra Caliente — hot land. Mayors from a couple of the nearest towns fled with their ...
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• Setting Up an NGO in Belarus: Challenge Yourself

  
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  Earlier this month Belarusian authorities refused to register yet another human rights organisation called “For Just Elections” (“Za Spravedlivye Vybory”). To put it mildly, the three reasons for the refusal are odd: none of them seemed to be based on Belarusian legislation. In addition, on 8 May 2013, ...
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• Arnold Kling on Government Snooping

  
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  Arnold Kling writes with his usual seriousness, wisdom, and insight on government snooping .  I disagree, though, with Arnold’s claim that The issue is an uncomfortable one for libertarians, because I think that most people believe that the government is snooping in their interest. My disagreement isn’t with ...
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• Turkey protests: Erdogan’s autocratic stance presents quandary for US

  
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  “Turkish riot police fought running battles with pockets of protesters overnight, clearing the central Istanbul square that has been the focus of nearly two weeks of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan,” Reuters reports : The United States, which has …
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• Experts: “More Robust” Response Needed on NGO Verdict

  
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  Photo Credit: AFP The Working Group on Egypt, a bipartisan group of foreign policy experts, has released a letter  to President Barack Obama urging “a more robust public response on the part of the United States” regarding the recent verdict handed down by an Egyptian court against 43 NGO workers.  The letter ...
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• Uncivil Society: Egypt’s ‘criminal’ draft NGO law

  
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  An Egyptian criminal court’s sentencing of 43 NGO workers  was “a familiar scenario” for human rights groups under Hosni Mubarak, says a prominent advocate, “when activists regularly criticized the roundup of hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members and their prosecution on …
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