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No deal between Pak Lah and Anwar

Despite the swirling rumours making the rounds, Thinking Allowed believes there was no secret pact between the premier and the recently freed former deputy premier.

Who is telling the truth?

Either the Home Ministry or Cheras police HQ is lying over the permit application to hold a home-coming gathering at a stadium for Anwar. Are they afraid that a 100,000-crowd may turn up and debunk the claim that he is irrelevant?

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REFORMASI LIVES ON

Pak Sheikh has an open house
Anwar's open house in Kuala Lumpur was in one sense a political homecoming. He re-establishes, after six years in prison, his political credentials as a political heavyweight; that he has no need for UMNO; that he would and could rise with the Opposition; that if he should ever be prime minister, it would be at the head of an Opposition coalition not of an UMNO-led coalition. - IPS

Anwar hits out at whipping of migrant workers
Former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, an icon of Malaysia's pro-reform movement, has hit out at the Malaysian government's threat to whip undocumented workers if they fail to take advantage of a current amnesty period to return to their home countries. - IPS

THE QUEST FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE

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US economic `armageddon' predicted
Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, has a public reputation for being bearish. But you should hear what he's saying in private. Roach met select groups of fund managers downtown last week, including a group at Fidelity. His prediction: America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic ``armageddon.'' - Boston Herald

Krugman: US Economic Crisis a Question of When, Not If
The economic policies of President Bush have set the country on a dangerous course that will likely end in crisis, Princeton economics professor Paul Krugman told Reuters in an interview - Reuters

Abolish the CIA!
Given the CIA's clear role in causing the disaster of September 11, 2001, what we need today is not a new intelligence czar but an end to the secrecy behind which the CIA hides and avoids accountability for its actions. To this day, in the wake of 9/11 and the false warnings about a threat from Iraq, the CIA continues grossly to distort any and all attempts at a Constitutional foreign policy. The agency has outlived any Cold War justification it once might have had and should simply be abolished. - Chalmers Johnson/Tom Dispatch

Fallujah, the US elections and 9/11
If we allow the invasion of Iraq to be normalized, if we refuse to question and probe the hidden agendas and unaccountable secret power structures at the heart of "democratic" governments and if we allow the people of Fallujah to be crushed in our name, we surrender both democracy and humanity. - John Pilger/New Statesman

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