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we will never be rid of mahathir

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

And that’s how I’m beginning to view the events of the past few years, even the whole of Abdullah Badawi’s first term as Prime Minister. It was Mahathir who engineered Anwar’s downfall and Badawi’s placement as the new No. 2 man in UMNO, and today we are still witnessing the botched-up accusations flung at Anwar again ...Continue


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the lingam fallout

Friday, May 16th, 2008

I don’t believe you’ll need to think very hard about the implications of the Lingam report. This is just further dismantling of the Mahathir regime and one, I think, that is done with relish and not without a smidgen of desperation. In the light of recent moves by Mahathir to re-establish old ties and bona fides within the UMNO ...Continue


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