The recent protests in Ukraine have the stench of a foreign-orchestrated attempt to destabilize the government of Viktor Yanukovych after he walked away from signing an EU Association Agreement that would have driven a deep wedge between Russia and Ukraine. Glamor-star boxer-turned political guru, Vitaly Klitschko, has been meeting with […]
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Who is Jesus Christ and Who is Irrational?
Julian Christmas Eve is perhaps a perfect moment to reread a wonderful column by American Professor of Criminology from North Carolina State University Michael S. ADAMS. A sixty-seven year old proud atheist friend of mine recently interjected the sweeping statement “all religion is irrational” into one of our conversations. I […]
Was Sangeeta Richard the CIA’s maid in Manhattan? (II)
Part I Wage row The US is right that when Khobragade applied for her visa, she falsely stated her maid would be paid the minimum US wage of $7.25 an hour. But Satyabrata Pal, former Indian ambassador to Pakistan, writes in the daily newspaper The Hindu: “Every Indian diplomat in the […]
Was Sangeeta Richard the CIA’s maid in Manhattan? (I)
Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the detective character Sherlock Holmes, wrote that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. When Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was arrested by the FBI in New York the reason cited was she was paying her maid Sangeeta […]
U.S. Role in Global Drug Trafficking
ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes a briefing of the series of articles by Konstantin Penzev recently posted by the New Eastern Outlook (here, here and here). He carefully reviews the sources of the global narco-culture tracking back to the clandestine experiments done in the military laboratories of the United States as early […]
Defeated By The Taliban, Washington Decides To Take On Russia And China
What are the Ukrainian protests about? On the surface, the protests don’t make sense. The Ukrainian government made the correct decision to stay out of the EU. Ukraine’s economic interests lie with Russia, not with the EU. This is completely obvious. The EU wants Ukraine to join so that Ukraine […]
Future of Internet after the Snowden affair
Edward Snowden’s recent revelations about American intelligence agencies’ wiretapping of European leaders, as well as their collection of the personal data of European citizens, will apparently have far-reaching implications which go far beyond a simple diplomatic scandal. This was demonstrated by the EU summit which was held October 24-25, 2013. […]
How Foreign Office dares to judge Libya and Iraq on human rights
The remarkable aspiration of the British Foreign Office to only accuse the administrations of Libya and Iraq for the current state of events there, concealing their initial cause, consisting in initiation by the West and Great Britain in the first place of the recent military intervention in these states in breaking the international […]
Nobel Peace Laureate: “Mother Agnes is bringing to America the story of Syria”
Open Letter to the American people from Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate My dear friends, As a teenager living in Belfast, I admired the American Peace Movement and many prominent figures within it. Fifty years later, two of the most inspiring people still remembered across the world are Americans: Martin […]
Nobel Peace Laureate: ‘EU developing in wrong direction’
Address by Mairead Maguire at the 13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Warsaw, Poland, on October 2l-23rd, 2013. ‘STAND IN SOLIDARITY FOR PEACE TIME TO ACT’. REPLACING VIOLENCE, ARMED REBELLIONS, MILITARISM AND WAR WITH NONVIOLENCE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW Dear Friends, I believe the next stage of our evolution […]
Revelations of Edward Snowden – Geopolitical Implications (II)
Part 1 Third lesson. Being a US ally is not a guarantee of a country’s information sovereignty being respected. The cyberspace control is not an end in itself. The real objective is carrying out the traditional strategic mission of gaining geopolitical dominance over large spaces. It would be naïve to […]
Revelations of Edward Snowden – Geopolitical Implications (I)
As a rule the discussions related to what has been revealed by Edward Snowden about US global electronic surveillance boil down to violations of human rights and illegal interference into the private lives of millions in different parts of the world. If it were all about it, then the White […]
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