Thailand at crossroads: Leaving Thaksin behind in his Dubai sandcastle by Kasit Piromya,…

March 18, 2014

Thailand at crossroads: Leaving Thaksin behind in his Dubai sandcastle by Kasit Piromya, Special to the Nation
Over the past few decades a new challenge to Thailand's cultural integrity has emerged in the form of the dominance of money and business over politics. This new threat has grown into the corporatism of a one-party authoritarianism flying populist colours in a democratic setting and striving by any means to gain electoral majorities…read more
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    Stephen Waterhouse

    March 19, 2014

    Pure agitprop!  Please don't believe everything you read.  Those who call Thaksin and Yingluck corporatists are only flunkies acting at the behest of the corporatists themselves–the urban elite in Bangkok.  This is the coffee calling the kettle black and is only meant to confuse you. Put another way, just because a politician is wealthy (they are all wealthy, for pete's sake! how do you think they got elected?) doesn't mean they're automatically corrupt to the bone.  There's got to be, or at least should be, a place for pragmatism in this world.

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