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John Dear pays tribute to the legendary American historian and peace activist Howard Zinn, who spoke of small acts that could lead to real...

Muslims now face the dilemma of whether to continue with the status quo and thereby place greater impediments upon the development of humanity...

In a tribute to the late Abdurrahman Wahid, Greg Barton describes him as the gentle, friendly face of Indonesia and Islam.  When the former...

Angeline Loh looks at Malaysia’s ‘migrant hell-holes’ – the immigration detention camps, where evidence of cruel, degrading and inhuman conditions is overwhelming.  Many ordinary...

Over the long-term real change will be facilitated through a revamp of the education system which, as Teacher’s Blues describes, now falls desperately short...

Hishamuddin Yahaya says racial sloganeering could become irrelevant if a new government takes over that is better able to promote democracy and socio-economic and...

Aliran Monthly's Thinking Allowed column takes a light-hearted look at the BTN course, no cover-up at a nudist colony, protection for whistleblowers and then...

Forces are at work to subvert the voters’ choice in the last general election while others are playing up emotive issues of race and...

Perhaps, in these troubled times, it is time for us to recall the Tunku’s legacy. After 52 years of nationhood, let us demand greater...

Malaysians could suffer even more with the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). GST-driven inflation would be a calamity that the struggling...

Umno will lose the next general election if it fails to reform, warns Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.  Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has predicted that Umno and...

T’is the season of betrayal. In our cover story, P Ramakrishnan says forces are at work to subvert the voters’ choice in the last...