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In surprising turn of events, former United States ambassador to Malaysia John Malott's online petition has been removed from the White House website ‘We the People’ citing "a violation of their terms of participants." Final push for signatures in ‘Free Anwar’ petitionwww.malaysiakini …

In surprising turn of events, former United States ambassador to Malaysia John Malott's online petition has been removed from the White House website ‘We the People’ citing "a violation of their terms of participants." Final push for signatures in ‘Free Anwar’ petitionwww.malaysiakini …

KJ John | El Putera – It is said, “What’s in a name; that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?” I am not a true Shakespearean and therefore I will claim the popular heritage of this idea and ideal. El Puterawww.malaysiakini.comSo, what is in this name called ‘El Putera’ …

COMMENT | John F Kennedy threw his fellow Americans this soul-searching question in his inaugural speech as president of the USA: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” The 35th American president may be long gone, but he has been quoted over and over again …

KJ John | What is truthfulness? When newly appointed and party-approved Menteri Besar Azmin Ali tweeted, within one month of his appointment, that “the Bibles belong to the Christians”, it told me that he can and will deal with truth matters and set new directions for state governance. I therefore p …

KJ John | Who really is a Malaysian? Now, who is and is not a Malaysian? Does Umno decide this? Worse still, does Perkasa, or its cousin, Isma, decide this? This question needs to be now be truthfully taught in Malaysian history so that everyone knows who, what, and how the value of Malaysian citize …

KJ John | Isma’s poor science and bad theology Isma, or those whom, in my state of total disapproval, I purposefully call ‘the Islamic State Malaysia,’ are demonstrating poor science and bad theology from their worldview and consequential non-rational arguments. Their actual name or formal nomenclat …

KJ John | RPK, you are wrong Blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) is a maverick of Malaysian politics; he is such a slippery eel with his brilliant logic that there are few who can take him on simply based on his logic and arguments using reason. Moreover, he adduces new ‘information’ which often make …

KJ John | Is it morally right? The Sun carried a headline, ‘MB: it’s LEGIT’. My question to the menteri besar is not about legitimacy, but regarding morality, spirituality, and ethics. The MB, whom I know personally, worked for at least seven years with Ismail Ali, the very ethical founder governor …

KJ John | Is Dr M nyanyuk or inconsistent? After Dr Mahathir Mohamad became prime minister and articulated his Vision 2020 ambition, I became a great fan of the then-PM’s vision. I was enthralled by the Bangsa Malaysia challenge he articulated with the corresponding nine challenges. Actually, way ba …

KJ John | Tuanku – I humbly disagree As a Malaysian citizen I have no problem accepting and agreeing that we need traditional rulers, we call ‘sultans;’ to help moderate issues and concerns of the peoples of Malaysia. Nonetheless, I have serious problems and issues with sultans who ignore the …

US Secretary of State John Kerry laid out what he called overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight #MH17 as international horror deepened over the fate of the victims' remains. Kerry demanded that Moscow take responsibility for actions of pro-R …

John Ling | How 'force drift' may have led to #MH17 downing In the shadowy world of intelligence, there is an innocuous term known as ‘force drift’. It begins when an individual decides to carry out a small act of violence. He believes he is doing it for the greater good. He justifies it a …

KJ John | My questions about Kidex I have some basic questions to the planners of the Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex) proposal. I need these questions answered, and as I wrote in my earlier column on this subject; I have locus standi as a 30-year rent paying resident of PJ to ask and seek the a …

KJ John | Idiocratic judges? I have still not seen the written judgments of the seven judges; and yes, I think if you sit on the Federal Court bench, unless it is a unanimous judgment, there must be made available all their views, considerations, and judgments of each of the seven judges in writing. …