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Sultan Sharafuddin apparently was angered by former premier Mahathir’s remarks calling Bugis descendants “pirates” during last month’s anti-kleptocracy rally. The sultan was said to be absolutely disappointed as such statement from a former prime minister could spark hatred and prejudice against the Bugis community. But why was the sultan felt so insulted? That’s because […]
... written on Nov 03 2017Reform is something very alien to Saudi Arabia. After all, until June 2018, this kingdom is still the only country in the world that does not allow its women to drive. But Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a 32-year-old son of King Salman, has promised that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will reform. The young […]
... written on Nov 02 2017America dares bullying only smaller nations with inferior military capabilities. Not that North Korea is worth defending, but if not for the hermit kingdom’s nuclear and ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) capabilities, the mighty United States would have sent that kingdom to oblivion. Trump would have sent at least dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles into Pyongyang. […]
... written on Nov 01 2017For months, Donald Trump has been gloating through his big mouth. Special Counsel Robert Mueller couldn’t find any evidence linking Trump to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Well, the U.S. president should have had kept his big mouth shut simply because he can’t be 100% sure that his boys are really innocent. […]
... written on Oct 31 2017OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia, and non-OPEC partners, led by Russia, is playing a simple but risky game. They try to game the world crude oil prices by controlling how many barrels of oil the world can get. They have agreed to take 1.8-million bpd (barrel per day) of oil off the market by cutting […]
... written on Oct 30 2017Saudi Arabia is the source of the world’s extremism. To be precise, the oil-rich kingdom is the biggest sponsor and supplier of terrorists, the product of its extremism policy. And thanks to Saudi, it gave birth to terror groups such as al-Qaeda and Daesh (ISIS, ISIL, IS), among others, because Muslims were being radicalized as […]
... written on Oct 25 2017Trump was right about United Nations when he criticised the world body for bloated bureaucracy and mismanagement during his first visit to its New York headquarters recently. And it didn’t take long for the U.S. president to prove how his allegations. It seems the U.N. is not only incompetent, but is fabulously corrupt too. Otherwise, how do […]
... written on Oct 23 2017Get real, Americans love fast food. Enjoying a McDonald’s hamburger, Kentucky Fried Chicken popcorn nuggets, or Taco Bell burrito seems to be the pleasure of all Americans – rich or poor. In fact, fast food is perhaps the only thing that unites Americans. Even Donald Trump loves fast food and he indirectly promoted McDonald’s during his […]
... written on Oct 22 2017The reputation of Myanmar’s pro-democracy icon – Aung San Suu Kyi – is in tatters for her failure to condemn her country’s so-called “clearing operations” in Rakhine State. Once a darling of the West, her portrait was even removed last month from public display by Oxford University UK, the same college she studied politics, philosophy […]
... written on Oct 19 2017Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has revealed that after the global crude oil meltdown, Kremlin is ready for reality. As one of the world’s largest producers of crude oil, Russia was badly hit when the oil prices plunged in 2014. Russian ruble lost more than 120% against the American dollar in July 2014 alone. And […]
... written on Oct 16 2017
