Politik, Legislatif, Dasar dan Tadbir Urus

Rencana saya ini telah diterbitkan dalam Aliran.com pada 15/12/2015. Tindakan kerajaan Barisan Nasional yang begitu menyegerakan kelulusan RUU MKN tanpa melalui proses perbahasan dan kajian yang teliti dalam kalangan ahli-ahli Dewan Rakyat bagaikan suatu penghinaan terhadap institusi demokrasi berpalimen di dalam negara kita ini. Dengan terlulusnya RUU MKN ini, maka ianya bakal melalui satu lagi peringkat pembentangan dan undian di Dewan Negara (Senat) sebelum ianya dapat dipersembahkan kepada Yang di-Pertuan Agong untuk dipersetujui dan diwartakan sebagai sebuah badan keselamatan yang sah. Persoalannya adalah, apakah niat dan tujuan yang sebenarnya kerajaan BN mencadang dan menyegerakan proses pembentukan MKN ini? Berdasarkan kepada: keadaan ekonomi yang tidak stabil, persoalan yang masih timbul dalam skandal 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), skandal RM2.6bn perdana menteri, pemberontakan dalaman Umno, pengaruh parti-parti pembangkang yang semakin meningkat, pembongk...

Barry Grey, WSWS Global stock markets plunged Friday as oil prices hit new lows, threatening to crash the junk bond market and trigger a new financial meltdown. Investor nervousness was heightened by the prospect of the US Federal Reserve Board raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade when it meets next week. Fed officials have repeatedly signaled to the financial markets that any increase will be small and interest rates will remain well below normal levels for an indefinite period. However, any increase from the current near-zero level will likely intensify a selloff of junk bonds, a large percentage of which are energy-related, threatening to destabilize the entire credit system. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 309 points (1.76 percent), the Standard & Poor’s 500 index dropped 39 points (1.94 percent), and the Nasdaq index fell 111 points (2.21 percent). For the week, the S&P 500 fell 3.8 percent, its worst week since late August, at the he...

We have seen the total failure of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, not only its failure to administer our nation but the coalition’s entire leadership, administration and system has been tainted with mass corruption, mismanagement and power abuse. It is a total disaster. Even the prime minister and his entire cabinet is a total failure, having become a laughing stock throughout the world. Well, what about the opposition bloc? From Pakatan Rakyat to Pakatan Harapan and later on what Pakatan more, we won’t know yet as of now. Leaders of the opposition parties in Pakatan are still bickering among themselves over who is bigger, smaller or who should listen to whom. And they are still bickering today. Thanks to PAS’ destructive kind of religious conservatism, Pakatan had effectively lost its strong voice in the parliament today. The people who has been putting so much hope on Pakatan to get rid of BN are now feeling hopeless and frustrated because our nation is turning f...