Oriental Review

Battleground Syria

By Dmitry ZAVODIN (Russia)

Recent events in Syria and on the international scene clearly show that President Bashar Assad is destined to be the next “bloody dictator” overthrown by his own people for the sake of restoring democracy, freedom, equality, and other dubious values promoted by the West. Latest statements by US President Barack Obama, the EU’s chief executives [...]

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Libyan Scenario for Central Asia?

By Alexander SHUSTOV (Russia)

Russian general staff chief Gen. N. Makarov warned at a media briefing in Moscow on September 12 that revolutions patterned on the Libyan one can recur in Central Asia… Overall, the pertinent scenario includes the incitement of public unrest, civilian fatalities, international condemnations of repressions against protesters, the passing of a UN resolution partially authorizing [...]

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Gadhafi and the “Lion of the Desert”

By Elena SUPONINA (Russia)

Libya’s government has been forcibly overthrown. But as in previous years, events are being held there this week to commemorate Libya’s national hero, the man to whom, paradoxically, both the new leaders and their deposed opponent, Muammar Gadhafi, compare themselves. Eighty years ago—on September 16, 1931—in Soluk (a town south of Benghazi in the eastern [...]

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Who Is Killing People in the Middle East?

By ORIENTAL REVIEW

Russian and Chinese refusal to support UN sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the end of August has caused a dramatic outburst of criticism in Western media and from the local human rights activists. On Tuesday the Facebook group ‘Syrian Revolution 2011’ posted a banner in Russian condemning Moscow for allegedly ‘killing the Syrians’. [...]

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Obama’s Dilemma: A Matter of Faith

By Iqbal ALIMOHAMED (Switzerland)

President Obama, in his impressive Cairo speech of June 4, 2009, said, “I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security, to get an education and to work with dignity, to love our [...]

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Who Bin Laden’s Skull Is Grinning At?

By Pyotr ISKENDEROV (Russia)

A decade since the terrorist attack that shook the US on September 11, 2001, we are at the point where it is appropriate to revisit the lessons the world learned from the drama and to reassess its global impact. Instead of ending with some kind of a result that could be offered as its justification, [...]

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US War on Terror: Provocations, Mystifications, and Illusory Feats

By Nil NIKANDROV (Russia)

A decade ago, the World Trade Center was destroyed in “a terrorist attack” on September 11 in New York. Contrary to all efforts made by the Empire’s propaganda and (dis)information machine, the belief in the complicity of hawks from G. Bush’s Administration in the whole story did not recede from public discourse but, instead, gained [...]

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Taliban’s New Strategy

By Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)

If Taliban head Mullah Omar’s recent Eid ul-Fitr (marking end of Muslim holy month Ramadan) speech serves any indication – it is Taliban’s latest strategy to regroup and enhance its prospects to rule Afghanistan but in a new format…Besides some of the high sounding and oft repeated slogans such as establishing Islamic rule, Omar’s call [...]

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Revolt In Libya a Message to Chavez

By Nil NIKANDROV (Russia)

The Libyan rebels’ August 23 attack on the Venezuelan embassy and compound in Tripoli went largely unreported, though fatalities were narrowly averted as Venezuelan ambassador Afif Tajeldine and the embassy staff moved to a safer location at the last moment and left Libya shortly thereafter. It transpired in the wake of the incident that Venezuela’s [...]

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West’s Intervention in Libya Opens New Epoch

By Sergey BREZKUN (Russia)

It looks like the global community has not fully realized the seriousness of what is going on in Libya. Mass media are still reporting on some local “rebels” in Libya and only somewhere on the background of public conscience “British special troops” and “CIA experts” emerge from time to time… But this is not how [...]

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The Arab League: Trying to Keep up with Arab Spring

By Vitaly BILAN (Ukraine)

A PR campaign conducted by the Arab League in recent years and attempts to dampen Iran’s “imperial ambitions” and prevent uncoordinated actions by Arab countries have proven ineffective. And if the Arab League’s new head fails to make this pan-Arab organization over into a driving force in regional processes, the League will be fated to [...]

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The Arab Spring Grows Into Muslim Turmoil

By Dmitry SEDOV (Russia)

Informational warfare launched by the West in the Muslim world could not but result in the Arab youth betraying their traditional values and taking to the streets to express their protest. It is absolutely evident that these protests were orchestrated from overseas. This became particularly clear in the final stage of the armed confrontation in [...]

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