Oriental Review

US-Led Commodity Boom: Fake Prices, Global Crises

By David KERANS (USA)

When I first entered the floor and learned about oil pricing, it was clear that the cash market, where real barrels of oil were bought and sold, was where pricing was decided. Later, it became increasingly clear that the source of prices was coming from the futures markets that I engaged in, with the cash [...]

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Swiss Banking Insider Reveals Secrets of Bilderbergers

  ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes a thrilling interview with an anonymous Swiss banker taken in Mosсow on May 30, 2011, few days before the annual meeting of the Bilderberg club in Switzerland…   Q: Can you tell us something about your involvement in the Swiss banking business? A: I have worked for Swiss banks for many [...]

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Credit Rating Agencies’ Potential To Erase Sovereign Countries

By Elena PUSTOVOITOVA (Russia)

The history of credible data collection for the needs of private businesses in the US was relatively short. The 1907 stock market crash was the watershed moment after which the dependence of credit rating agencies (CRAs) on powerful corporations and their complicity with the rated companies, especially the financial market players, momentarily grew into entrenched [...]

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation`s Impact on the Region (II)

By Najmuddin A. SHAIKH (Pakistan)

In my last article I had stated that the main interest of the countries of the region in the deliberations of the SCO summit would be the manner in which they handled the question of the granting of membership to the four countries-Pakistan, India, Iran and Mongolia – which now have observer status and the [...]

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Default by Greece and the US

By Yuri GAVRILECHKO (Russia)

In mid June Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve chairman, said a default by Greece is “almost certain” and could help drive the US economy into recession. Greenspan’s loud statement on Greece may be a “sound curtain” to prepare the global community to a default by the US… First – a few key dates. June 14, [...]

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Obama’s Drawdown Speech: SCO Faces the Afghan Challenge

By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR (India)

The United States President Barack Obama’s drawdown speech will not stand out in the volume of his selected works as an outstanding piece of oratory. The rhetorical flourish of “On the Way Forward in Afghanistan” was definitely below par. On the other hand, Obama knew the occasion is not one of celebration but of having [...]

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Stalin Caught in Liberal Cobweb

By Nil NIKANDROV (Russia)

Progressive revision of the principal results of the WWII represents as a very dangerous sign. Never before the endeavors to depict Hitler and Stalin as equally responsible for unleashing the war have been so obstinate, purposeful and bluntly hostile towards Russian people and Russian state… No doubt that the propagandistic identification of Stalin as a [...]

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United Europe Against “Russian Barbarity”

By Olga CHETVERIKOVA (Russia)

Today Russia commemorates 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great Patriotic war. In a stark contrast, Europe had commemorated pompously the 70-th anniversaries of the outbreak of World War II and of the signing of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact but currently seems oblivious to another key historical date ― June 22, the 70th [...]

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The Real War vs The Illusions

By Peter CHAMBERLIN (USA)

In the complicated calculus of the men who would plan our destinies for us, if we would only let them, it is often hard to fathom which line of reasoning represents their dominant thinking on any strategic subject.  In Afghanistan and in Pakistan, it is getting harder to distinguish between the minimum acceptable goals for the [...]

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China-US: What Is Inside Real Politics

By Konstantin PENZEV (Russia)

As we continue our conversation about relations between the United States and China, I should point out that the United States controls China both militarily and politically. How does that work? To begin, we need to answer the main question: does the United States today want to cut off China’s raw material supplies or does [...]

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The Ghost of Goebbels: Historical Revisionism and World War II

By Wayne MADSEN (USA)

An expected outgrowth of the world’s steady descent into total and extreme capitalist control is the increasing tendency by some historians and their accomplices in the media to re-invent certain aspects of history. Although the history of the Middle East and colonialism have been favorite playgrounds for the historical revisionists, it is World War II [...]

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China-US: Big Guns As a Basis of Understanding

By Konstantin PENZEV (Russia)

As we continue our earlier conversation about relations between China and the United States, it bears repeating that at present both sides acknowledge that the relationship is good, as far as China is concerned, and excellent, per the United States. The US assessment is understandable. America is living in luxury by paying for exported Chinese [...]

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