The arrest of former Serbian Commander Gen. R. Mladic on May 26 evokes serious questions of both moral and legal character. Clearly aware of the shakiness of the indictment Mladic is about to face, the global media tend to avoid touching upon the legal aspect of the Mladic case. It […]
Anti-Human Rights
“Western poker” in Syria
The current events confirm the forecasts made by experts, who became a skilled hand in analyzing the Western politics regarding the “undeveloped” countries. A week ago we wrote that we may soon expect sanctions against Syria. On May 18, the sanctions were imposed. President Barack Obama has announced that the […]
The Legal Prosecution of “Wrong” Historical Consciousness
“The mass killings around Srebrenica in July 1995 took place in the context of the Bosnian civil war that led to the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Whereas Muslim troops terrorised Serb villages around Srebrenica during winter and spring, Bosnian Serbs took over the old mine-town in July and killed hundreds, if […]
In Wake of Bin Laden Killing: US Targets American Citizen in Yemen
Barely five days after the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the US launched a Predator drone strike aimed at assassinating an American citizen in Yemen. The May 5 drone attack, which took place in Yemen’s Shabwa province, was planned as a targeted assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, a New […]
Gaddafi: ‘We Will Live Free Or Die’
On April 29, one day before Muammar Gaddafi lost his youngest son Saif al-Arab and three grandchildren (two-years-old Carthage, 18-months-old Saif Mohamed and 6-months-old Mastura) under NATO night attack, he delivered a speech on Libyan national TV. He permitted few sharp words towards Italian leaders, the words, which being snatched […]
Portraying Libya: the «Free Media» and the «Common Vision»
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 […]
Open Letter to President Gaddafi
Yesterday ORIENTAL REVIEW received a fundamental exclusive comment on Mu’ummar Qaddafi’s Recollections of My Life from Mr. Iqbal Alimohamed, the former senior UN official who served as the UNHCR Regional Representative in Malaysia, Japan, Australia and the Sudan. We believe this very important document deserves special attention and our journal […]
Côte d’Ivoire: Say Goodbye to International Law
The West is dealing shortly and brutally with African intellectual, who tried to build a European-like social state. Given the civil war and NATO operation in Libya, the situation in another African country — Côte d’Ivoire — doesn’t draw much attention of the world media. In the meantime, these events […]
Post-Gaddafian Africa (II)
Part 1 In the middle of 90s Colonel Gaddafi decided to give up his venturesome-terrorist policy at the African continent and became one of the African Union architects — this Euro-Union-like organization including an entire Africa. On the 9th of September, 1999 African leaders adopted the declaration on creation of […]
Post-Gaddafian Africa (I)
Libya has been carrying out utmost active policy in Sahel (part of African continent, lying to the south from Sahara desert) long since. Libyan presence in the region is perceivable in the military, economic, cultural and propagandistic spheres. Numerous countries of this area are closely bound to Libya, while Colonel […]
Libya: Time to Say What is Really Happening (I)
Global media are beaming with enthusiasm over the advancement of the “rebels” in Libya. The Independent, for example, ran a nearly sadistic weekend account of the coalition’s raid which caught the forces of the regime amidst open space, with nowhere to hide, and left scores of crippled and burned bodies […]
Libyan ‘Peaceful’ Opposition
Anti-Gaddafi coalition has been bombing Libya for ten days already. Hundreds of civilians are dead or injured. Anyway the coalition is not a jot closer to the declared objective to oust Gaddafi from power. The common prejudice is that the West is protecting ‘peaceful’ democratic opposition who would build ‘open […]





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