LAST week marked 64 years of the Palestinian Nakba, or catastrophe. In other words, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Following a transaction between a handful of bankrupt British imperialists and influential Zionist Jews, close to a million Palestinian Arabs were expelled from their homes to give way to Jewish migrants from Europe.
ON FEB 15, 2003, the world witnessed what peace activist Phyllis Bennis described as “the single largest mobilisation of people in the history of humanity, bar none”. Millions of people took to the streets in at least 600 cites and 60 countries across the globe.
THE general election seem imminent and the stakes are high for Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat in a contest touted as the “mother of all elections”.
IT SEEMS the closer we get to the general elections, our sense of righteousness and morality too is intensified. Political actors work hard to show they are more honourable than their competitors and the rakyat seem moret than willing to cheer from the sidelines, assuming the role of a moral barometer.
CONSIDERING its long and epic decline it is quite surprising that one still finds oneself astounded and asking, “What the heck is happening in MAS?” when reading news about the national carrier.
NINA Simone will always bring back memories of one's childhood. Sunday mornings waking up to her song, I Put a Spell on You, filling up our quiet street.
Listening as a child, I Put a Spell on You was a deeply desperate song about unrequited love and betrayal, between a man and woman — or was it? Twenty years later, this song seems to be saying something else.
THE year 2011 ended on a low note for women in Malaysia as the Minister for Women, Family and Community Development, Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, got herself entangled in controversy involving members of her family and the National Feedlot Centre.
