Breaking: Statement from Amnesty International
“ […] a further step in the insidious erosion of the right to free speech in Singapore,” Amnesty International said today “By extinguishing one of the few remaining active opposition […]
Why Pay Journalists for Disinformation To Be Spread about Your Opponents When You Can Give Yourself Monopoly Control Over What They Write and Use Public Funds To Pay For It?
Today I read a news item on BBC about how an investigation by the newspaper Le Monde had uncovered how a senior French TV news journalist, Rachid M’Barki was paid […]
Singaporeans Should Be Less Concerned About SPH’s Falsified Circulation Figures: The Real Crime Is That Your Money Goes To Fund a Monopoly Whose Main Purpose Is To Keep LHL and the PAP in Power
In Parliament on Monday Josephine Teo astonishingly said that the blatant criminality and utter lack of integrity of SPH’s management revealed by the inflated circulation figures scandal was a reason […]
LHL Uses His Coercive Control of Parliament and the AG to Get Rid of Opposition He Doesn’t Like to Replace Them with People Like Him Just As His Dad Did With JBJ
I want today to talk about the extraordinary saga that is taking place with regard to the Committee of Privileges and its recommendation that Pritam Singh and Faisal Manap be […]
The PAP Silences All Those Who Call Out Institutional Racism by Prosecuting Them Instead
A couple of days ago state media announced that Subhas Nair, perhaps better known as the brother of Preetipls, was going to be prosecuted for creating ill-will between different racial […]
Shanmugam Either Doesn’t Know or Deliberately Misrepresents the Meaning of Rule of Law
By ordering nine individuals to apologise and publish a correction after they posted a Mothership article that had misleadingly edited Shanmugam’s Parliamentary speech during the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act debate, […]
FICA Makes Singapore a Laughing Stock and Firmly Puts Us in the North Korea and Belarus Camp
In 2008 when he founded the Reform Party, JBJ famously asked the question whether the citizens of Singapore enjoyed any more freedom than the people of Belarus and North Korea. […]
It’s Back to the 1970s as Lee Hsien Loong Demonstrates Nothing Has Changed
The last week has brought a distinct feeling of deja vu. Firstly, we had the decision to close Yale-NUS, which was spun as economic but was clearly a political decision. […]
Orwell’s 1984 Is Alive and Well in Lee Hsien Loong’s Singapore
William Gibson, the iconic American science fiction writer famously described Singapore in 1993 as “Disneyland with the Death Penalty” in an essay he wrote for Wired magazine. (In 2013 I […]
The Ricebowl Singapore (TRS) 