TR EMERITUS

This is a modern ‘rephrase’ from one of Karl Marx’s many jotted side notes. Needless to say, the verbiage and the twists that academics can spin with this is many folds and unfolds; the sometimes needless iterations. I would recommend reading on Paul Mason’s take on this. But for me, extrapolating from the above ‘rephrase’,... 

Photo: theweek.in New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Ms. Jacinda Ardern has just won a landslide in New Zealand’s latest election. Ms. Ardern won some 49.1 percent of the votes cast and has 64 seats in the 120-seat parliament. It is, as the BBC reported, one of the rare occasions when a New Zealand Government has an outright... 

Singapore’s power structure is essentially an oligarchy or plutocracy of a very wealthy FamiLEE. It's a structural or systemic issue. A small group of people control and run Singapore. They have enough power to turn the country to benefit them and their cronies to the exclusion of others. They have become the only game in...