Obama, Morsi, Plunge Middle East Into Chaos
This week, President Obama announced that US “intelligence estimates” conclusively prove Syria has been using chemical weapons. The US will now supply weapons and ammunition to Syrian rebels, the Washington Post says are, not just al-Qaeda “affiliates” but working to destabilize and “Balkanize” Iraq as well, “In an audio message posted online, the speaker identified [...]
Continue reading...17. June 2013
Operation Unthinkable: Churchill’s plan to start World War III
By Rakesh KRISNAN SIMHA (India)
In the closing days of WW II, Winston Churchill came up with a bizarre plan for a joint British-American attack on the USSR. When told the Russians would bombard the UK on a massive scale, the British PM quietly backed off. On May 8, 1945, as people everywhere celebrated the end of World War II, [...]
Continue reading...16. June 2013
Dipping Our Military Toes In Very Murky Water
By Richard HART SINNREICH (USA)
After resisting for more than two years hawkish political pressures to intervene militarily in Syria’s bitter civil war, the Obama administration apparently has decided that now’s the time. On Friday, news agencies reported that the U.S. will begin supplying small arms and ammunition to the Syrian opposition. When, how much, and precisely to whom remain [...]
Continue reading...16. June 2013
Episode 11. A Soviet Quarter Century (1930-1955)
By Walter DUBLANICA (USA)
In this time period which started in 1930 with wooden plow shares to winning the war in Europe almost single handedly to a cache of nuclear weapons in 1955. How did all this happen? In the 1950’s if one were to suggest that the Soviet Union would produce more iron and oil then the U.S., [...]
Continue reading...10. June 2013
Turkey: Another Egypt?
By Andrey ARESHEV (Russia)
On many occasions the «Turkish-style» political system has been viewed as an example for Egypt to follow after the «Jasmine Revolution». Visiting Cairo in 2011, Prime Minister Recap Tayyip Erdoğan, who is also the chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), tried to look as someone who has won victories without actually going [...]
Continue reading...7. June 2013
Syria: Opposition In Retreat
By Peter LVOV (Russia)
With financial assistance from Qatar and Saudi Arabia drying up and the flow of weapons from Turkey and Lebanon slowing, what had to happen now has: The rebels have begun retreating in panic under the Syrian Army’s onslaught. This is occurring against the backdrop of bad things happening for the rebels: Riyadh is clearly tired [...]
Continue reading...5. June 2013
Meet the ‘Friends of Jihad’
By Pepe ESCOBAR (Brasil)
Western politicos love to shed swamps of crocodile tears about “the Syrian people” and congratulate themselves within the “Friends of Syria” framework for defending them from “tyranny”. Well, the “Syrian people” have spoken. Roughly 70% support the government of Bashar al-Assad. Another 20% are neutral. And only 10% are aligned with the Western-supported “rebels”, including [...]
Continue reading...4. June 2013
Finland: A Terrorist Haven
By Nikolay MALISHEVSKI (Belarus)
Finnish officials started to interact with Chechen terrorists as far back as 1999. Rene Nyberg, a high standing official from Finnish Foreign Ministry, first met Chechen representatives at the Helsinki EU summit by the end of 1999. When the criminal gangs of Basayev and Khattab invaded Dagestan from the territory of Chechnya and then launched [...]
Continue reading...2. June 2013
Why Do They Frighten Us With Syrian Chemical Weapons?
By Peter LVOV (Russia)
The latest reports on the confiscation of two kilogrammes of sarin gas, a powerful neurotoxin, from safe houses in Adana, South Turkey, some 150 kilometres from the border with Syria, earlier this week, adds the relevance to an insightful comment by Peter Lvov, a Middle East expert from New Eastern Outlook, on who in reality [...]
Continue reading...1. June 2013
The Syrian Crisis in Light of the Decline of Europe
By Dmitry MININ (Russia)
What does the legalization of same-sex «marriages» in France, which even such desperate acts as Dominique Venner’s suicide in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris have been unable to stop, have in common with the civil war in Syria? The common factor is that in both cases we can see signs of the self-destruction [...]
Continue reading...28. May 2013
Syrian Rebels Losing Big in Qusayr
By Michael COLLINS
Events in Syria are overtaking the plans of the Western powers and Gulf oils states to oust the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. An outright victory by the Syrian Army against rebels in a nearly concluded battle close to the Syria-Lebanon border could be a major turning point in the conflict. (Image) The Times [...]
Continue reading...26. May 2013
Nobel Prize Laureate: Peace Is Possible In Syria
By Mairead MAGUIRE (Northern Ireland)
Mrs. Mairead Maguire, the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and currently a spokesperson for Mussalaha International Reconciliation Movement, has kindly submitted to ORIENTAL REVIEW a special Report, based on her visit to Lebanon and Syria in May 2013. The Report is published by OR in full. Report and Appeal to the International community to support [...]
Continue reading...25. May 2013
Internal and External Dynamics of Syrian Crisis
By Salman RAFI SHEIKH (Pakistan)
A wave of dissatisfaction with the incumbent regimes has spread in a number of North African and Middle Eastern Muslim countries. Some have been hard-hit by this wave, some have survived it, and some are still burning under the fire unleashed not merely by people’s discontentment, but also by the geo-political and geo-strategic interests of [...]
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17. June 2013
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