Month: September 2026

The RM13 billion hole blown into Lembaga Tabung Haji is not an isolated tragedy. It is a warning. The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Tabung Haji exposed creative accounting, opaque transactions and reckless decisions involving the savings of millions of Malaysians. More disturbingly, it revealed how a system can allow those entrusted with a public institution to take enormous risks while...

A small data centre may seem modest compared to massive AI facilities, but its resource demands can still be enormous – especially when it comes to water. Cooling systems in data centres require vast amounts of water to prevent servers from overheating, and even a 1-megawatt facility can consume tens of millions of litres annually depending on the cooling method and climate. As AI...

By Lawrence S. Wittner The Trump administration has tried to eliminate all US food assistance. Starvation is a particularly cruel and horrible way to die. Beginning with intense hunger and pain and followed by exhaustion and mental deterioration, starvation continues with the body gradually consuming its own tissues on a downward spiral toward death. The major safeguard against mass starvation...

We call it development. Nature calls it destruction. One side has forests, rivers, birds, animals, and clean air. The other side has smoke, oil, factories, concrete, and machines. And somehow, we still ask why the Earth is losing balance. Progress is not real progress when it buries trees, poisons rivers, and leaves wildlife homeless. A bigger city means nothing if the planet becomes unlivable....