Oriental Review

Blond Beast and the Future of Terror

By ORIENTAL REVIEW

Norway tragedy of the last week would apparently make a tectonic shift in global social processes. It will significantly affect European politics and influence the ideological schemes of the Western world. As always, the mainstream trend describing Anders Behring Breivik as mentally insane solo terrorist and a ‘Christian fundamentalist’ clearly reveals the villainous plan of [...]

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Norway’s Bloodbath Reflects Mental Balkanization

By Pyotr ISKENDEROV (Russia)

The avalanche of comments in the wake of the twin terrorist attack in Europe’s exemplary Norway range from expressions of belief that the terrorist at the epicenter of the disaster must be insane and the possibility of recurrences of the situation can be safely discounted to claims that the plot is attributable to a powerful [...]

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Norway’s Enigmatic «Lone Terrorist»

By Yuri GAVRILECHKO (Ukraine)

Anders Breivik already seems to have emerged as one of the XX century’s top-famous terrorists. Day by day his popularity visibly grows not only in the ranks of the European radical right but also among the Europeans with otherwise mainstream views. Grabbing the media headlines, the Oslo and Utoya Island drama steadily overshadows Greece’s financial [...]

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Europe’s Quiet Corner Under Terrorist Attack

By Dmitry SEDOV (Russia)

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the New York Trade Center left the world divided. The US Administration and its giant propaganda machine made huge efforts to convince their audiences that the terrorist act had been perpetrated by Al Qaeda, but the developments that followed pointed with utmost clarity to its real authors – [...]

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Smashing Greater Central Asia

By Peter CHAMBERLIN (USA)

After ten years of raging warfare in Afghanistan, watching the fight slowly ooze across the invisible Durand Line into Pakistan, we have the right to wonder whether the war is any closer to ending today?  It is  perfectly reasonable to suspect that if we were allowed to know the truth we would understand that the [...]

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Chavez’s Health Problems and the Future of Venezuela

By Nil NIKANDROV (Russia)

Reports that Chavez underwent two surgeries in Cuba drew a mixed reaction in Venezuela. His supporters sound concerned and compassionate, while the radical opposition makes no attempts to disguise its heightened expectations. Over the past decades, Chavez has survived countless attempts on his life and stayed afloat despite a series of conspiracies, but may prove [...]

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Who Decides On Nation-States?

By Wayne MADSEN (USA)

The national aspirations of peoples are governed by rank public relations schemes On July 9, the Republic of South Sudan became the newest internationally-recognized nation-state. As the result of a civil war truce and peace deal worked out five years previously, South Sudan and its former master, the Republic of Sudan, independent since 1956, mutually [...]

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The West and Syria

By Pierre Khalaf (Lebanon)

Unlike other Arab leaders confronted to a protest movement such as former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak or Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched a wide political reform program coupled with a reasonable timetable extending until the end of 2011 at the most. This change which was initiated by Mr. Al-Assad extended beyond [...]

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Benghazi: Criminal Rebellion

By Gregory TINSKY (Russia)

Rebellion in Benghazi is being fomented by the mafia, controlling the traffic of “living stock” to Europe. Libyan “revolution” that seemingly started within the framework of Arab Spring happened to be a quite different matter. Given all the outward simplicity, Libyan events are different from what happened in Tunisia and Egypt. All of that symbolically [...]

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Mumbai’s Woes and their Implications

By Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)

Mumbai is India’s most prosperous as well as most cosmopolitan city. The city’s local trains everyday carry about 7 million diverse people, and to this gigantic fare is everyday added 1200 families who reach city from different corners of India in search of better life. Mumbai, also India’s tinsel town, is not only known for [...]

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EU – Summit on the Titanic’s board

By Gabriela IONITA (Romania)

European leaders delayed the Friday’s Summit, two days after the EU Finance ministers reunion did not reach any result on Greece. In addition, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, was crucial in resisting pressure for a meeting on Friday, arguing that it would be too early to deliver the comprehensive package of measures needed to restore [...]

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Will International Terrorists Help the U.S. Build ‘Greater Middle East’?

By Pyotr ISKENDEROV (Russia)

The so-called ‘Arab spring’, which started as a wave of anti-government riots in Tunisia and Egypt, is now developing in full accordance with the US scenario, its main aim being to reshape the geopolitics, which the Bush administration once described as ‘Greater Middle East’ plan… Emphasis is made on maintaining instability in this region through [...]

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