1. According to NATO and its Persian Gulf allies, for eight months mass demonstrations have taken place in Syria to demand more freedom and the departure of President Bashar al-Assad. Not true. There have been demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad’s, in some cities, at the call of Saudi and Egyptian preachers speaking on Al-Jazeera, but [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 16, 2011
Part I In the grand scheme of things, as conceived inside Washington, D.C., the world is a three-dimensional chess board, much like the ones seen on Star Trek, or more accurately, like the modern game called “Risk.” For those unfamiliar with this popular cult board game, it is literally a game of world conquest, fought [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 24, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Major media specialize in what they do best: truth inversion (aka bad fiction), not doing what journalists are supposed to do – their job, especially covering imperial wars for dominance and rich spoils. With Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) falling apart and rebel forces in disarray, today’s headlines belie the truth, reported by independent “un-in-bed-with” [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 5, 2011
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as a result of a global oversupply of grain staples. Since the 1980s, grain markets have been deregulated under the supervision of the World Bank and US [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 28, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 18, 2011
ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes a recent report by the Russian leading national TV channel on situation in Libya. There are several new astonishing facts released for the first time in mainstream media concerning the underestimated support to Gaddafi by Libyan tribal leaders and the atrocities committed by ‘peaceful’ rebels in Misrata and other locations. This is [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 14, 2011
The so-called popular protests hit Syria on the 15th of March in the southern city of Deraa and by today have reached the towns of Homs and Hama, the coastal region of Banias and Lattakia and the outskirts of Damascus. Tensions are also reported in areas inhabited by Kurdish minority. The Western media are describing [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 5, 2011
The media have long evolved into a kind of auxiliary warfare, and, in terms of their impact, now almost rank with weapons of mass destruction. The West maintains a number of media-related institutions which, in the majority of cases, are integrated into defense or security agencies, serving to feed carefully tailored information to the audiences [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 21, 2011
“The first casualty of war is the truth” said American Senator Hiram Johnson. “In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies” – Winston Churchill. If nothing else the world’s media have proved those two aphorisms in spades as the coverage of the Libya “revolution” so [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 16, 2010
Gulam A. Mitha (Canada) Does it have to be that an entire country and it’s innocent civilians have to be punished after the failed New York Times Square bomb attempt by one person? It seems to be that way. Maybe another false flag operation was planned to issue stern warnings to Pakistan that should there [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 15, 2010
In the past, war reporters bravely followed soldiers into the jaws of war. Today, it looks like the soldiers are embedded in the media instead, simply going along for the story. This article asks a simple question that unfortunately has no simple answer: “Where should media publications draw the line when it comes to using [...]
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