Trump’s ‘America First’ philosophy has created a less stable world by Dr.Fareed Zakaria https://fareedzakaria.com/columns/2019/5/16/trumps-america-first-philosophy-has-created-a-less-stable-world President Trump has seemed largely uninterested in foreign policy. He got excited briefly when he thought he could win a Nobel Peace Prize and hyped the danger of an imminent North Korean attack — so that he could play the peacemaker ..read more

National service can mend the country The following column is adapted from Fareed Zakaria’s commencement address at Ohio State University on May 5, 2019. It’s graduation season in America and a good time to be leaving college and looking for a job. Despite this week’s stock market tremors, the U.S. economy is on solid footing ..read more

April 16, 2019 Book Review: Participation without Democracy: Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia Garry Rodan (Cornell University Press, New York, 2018)   by REVIEWER: Meredith Weiss 06 Feb, 2019   Those of us who study politics differ on whether our discipline is rightly termed a “science”. People who weigh in on the “scientific” side tend ..read more

April 14, 2019 Musings on a nation gone half-mad Opinion  |  Azly Rahman Published: Today 6:10 am  |  Modified: Today 6:10 am     https://dinmerican.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/musings-on-a-nation-gone-half-mad/ COMMENTLike all of you esteemed readers, I sometimes do not know what to make of the world we are living in. Especially that of our beloved country. But ..read more

April 13, 2019 For Kambing’s sake! https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2019/04/04/for-goats-sake/ by Joe Samad – April 4, 2019 8:00 AM         Daim Zainuddin has advised the government not to take people for granted and treat them like idiots. “I have real faith in people, they are smarter than you think. If you are honest with them ..read more

April 13,2019 Mahathir, royalty and democracy Opinion  |  S Thayaparan https://www.malaysiakini.com/columns/472095 Published: Today 6:28 am  |  Modified: Today 6:28 am   “I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of ..read more

April 13, 2019 No repeat of ‘Dr M vs palace’ showdown, says  analyst James Chin   by Malaysiakini  |  Published: 12 Apr 2019, 1:08 pm  |  Modified: 12 Apr 2019, 1:08 pm   Malaysians are watching the ongoing thriller between Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and the Johor palace with nail-biting suspense. But those expecting ..read more

April 12, 2019 Should Mahathir go now? Certainly not! https://wordpress.com/post/dinmerican.wordpress.com/146656 Opinion  |  Mariam Mokhtar Published: Today 6:50 am  |  Modified: Today 6:50 am   COMMENTLet’s be clear about one thing. The only thing I share with Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is our initials – MM. That is all. I have been his ..read more

April 10, 2019 Long live the Rome Statute! Long live idiocy? Opinion  |  Azly Rahman Published: 7 Apr 2019, 10:11 am  |  Modified: 7 Apr 2019, 10:11 am https://www.malaysiakini.com/columns/471215   COMMENTLong live the Rome Statute! Long live Idiocy! What kind of government and society shall we be? From a cashless society we want ..read more

Lost Malaysian Hopes and the Pakatan Catch 22 April 10, 2019 by Murray Hunter http://www.asisentinel.com It took the Malaysian opposition more than a generation to topple the Barisan Nasional government, led by the now-discredited United Malays National Organization. Throughout mosques, coffee shops and markets in Malaysia, there has been an atmosphere of hope and anticipation ..read more