AUG 20 — "All great world-historic facts and personages appear twice. The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." So Marx wrote in the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.I doubt the trumped-up sodomy charges, now in its second version, against Anwar Ibrahim would appear even as a footnote in world history but it could very well ended as a chapter … Read More
AUG 12 — Crossing over is too neutral. Let’s call it defection.I have forgotten the exact date of Dr Chandra Muzaffar’s defection to the Barisan Nasional. He was a founding member of my party, yes, and deputy president too.Was there any sweetener involved? Only God knows. He became a scholar again, and a BN public intellectual. For several years he … Read More