In an earlier report that PPT posted on, it was stated that the Thai Patriotic Front or Network had dredged up a ploy that was the strategy that marked the People’s Alliance for Democracy as a royalist instrument. It was reported that the so-called Patriots had: filed a petition seeking the Royal appointment of a […]
Pasuk Phongpaichit has had a long career taking on tough topics. As a professor of Economics at Chulalongkorn University, she’s written on Thaksin Shinawatra, corruption, gender and much more. In a short op-ed at the Bangkok Post, she takes on inequality, and area she has been researching for several years. PPT isn’t about to summarize […]
With the royalists mounting yet another challenge to an elected government, the only thing that seems new for this lot is the use of the Guy Fawkes masks. Even these masks are a tired plagiarism of something done elsewhere. Just to make everyone realize that absolutely nothing has changed for the royalists, the Thai Patriotic […]
A quick post just to note that The Nation reports that the “Department of Special Investigation, public prosecutors and police agreed … to file murder charges against former PM Abhisit Vejjajiva and his ex-deputy Suthep Thaugsuban in relation to crackdowns on red-shirt protesters in 2010.” The charges will be that “Abhisit and Suthep would be […]
