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Thu, May 17, 2012

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France’s far right set to attack

Posted on 15 May 2012 - 05:10am

Eric S. Margolis

“APRES moi, le deluge!” – After me, the deluge. So said French king Louis XV, and was he ever right. His successor faced the French Revolution and lost his head.

Much the same can be said of France’s outgoing president, Nicholas Sarkozy.

Citizens do it best

Posted on 11 May 2012 - 05:12am

Helmy Haja Mydin

I HAVE always been fascinated with Iceland. As a child, I spent a few months absorbing everything about volcanoes (this was shortly after my "dinosaur phase").

Overtaxi-ng passengers

Posted on 10 May 2012 - 08:07pm
Last updated on 10 May 2012 - 10:17pm

Freddie Ng

TWO weeks ago, an executive taxi driver was fined RM1,000 for over-charging his passengers.

Ad-Deen and citizenship

Posted on 10 May 2012 - 05:08am

Chandra Muzaffar

MUSLIMS do not have to be told that Islam is ad-Deen, a way of life.

Dead men tell no tales

Posted on 8 May 2012 - 05:10am

Eric S. Margolis

WHY was I named in alleged Al-Qaeda letters last month as a recipient for documents about 9/11?

Return of France’s Vichy far right

Posted on 2 May 2012 - 05:13am

Eric S. Margolis

PARIS: France and Europe were left shaken and confused after Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front party won 18% of the vote in last week’s first round presidential election.

President Nicholas Sarkozy did better than polls had predicted, but the widely anticipated first place win of Socialist Francois Hollande was still a humiliation to the hyperkinetic Sarkozy who sought to

Tough on terrorism

Posted on 27 April 2012 - 05:13am

Nurul Izzah Anwar

AS SOON as the Security Offences (Special Measures) Bill (SOSMA) was tabled and passed by the Lower House, serious doubt was raised concerning Pakatan Rakyat's commitment to national security.

The booming stock market

Posted on 25 April 2012 - 05:11am

G. Sivalingam

BURSA MALAYSIA in recent months has been peaking as the Composite Index has been persistently above 1500, indicating that there is confidence in the economy especially among foreign portfolio institutional investors, who have been buying the stocks that make up the index.

Cuba: The Caribbean Pompeii

Posted on 21 April 2012 - 05:32am
Last updated on 21 April 2012 - 07:50am

Eric S. Margolis

HAVANA: Fifty years ago this month the US and USSR came terrifying close to full-scale thermonuclear war. I recalled those days of fear while staring at a rusting Soviet medium-ranged SS-4 missile displayed outside La Cabana fortress

Holy Grail of Asean’s security cooperation

Posted on 17 April 2012 - 05:09am

BA Hamzah

ASEAN plans to establish an Asean community by 2015. This community will have three mutually re-enforcing pillars: a political security community, an economic and a socio-cultural one. The security community pillar is the Holy Grail of regional security cooperation.

The foundation for Asean political security was laid in Bangkok in August 1967.