Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Barack Obama submitted new plan of war on terrorism for the Congress consideration. This time it is to take place in Africa and the USAF are to fight not just some trifle Al-Qaida but Joseph Kony himself — Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander-in-chief. 43-year-old Joseph Kony, wanted […]
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US Capital’s Domestic Violence Plan for 2011
David KERANS (USA) “I keep thinking to myself that it can’t get any worse. But…” A progressively minded Professor of American History, in private conversation, December 5th, 2010 Disillusionment among progressive observers of the American political scene is nothing new, of course, and neither is the foreboding that the inequities […]
Russian Reset Policy to Be Reviewed?
ORIENTAL REVIEW on Political Trust and Human Deception So far the most tangible outcome of notorious ‘Reset’ of the US-Russian relations (or perezagruzka, another Russian word of the global outreach) announced by foreign ministers last year was the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START III). As a reminder it limits […]
Right revolution in America. Part 2.
Michael Dorfman (USA) Part 1 The discreet charm of the elites In the USSR the novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell was banned for some reason. Soviet authorities shared the opinion of their Western foes that it was an anti-Soviet book. Some time has passed, the Soviet Union exists no […]
Right revolution in America. Part 1.
Michael Dorfman (USA) The Americans have failed to live the way they used to live. President Obama has run for presidency under a time-worn motto of changes. He has actually told lower classes that refused to live as before that upper classes refuse to live as before too. The election […]
The United States Did the Iranian Opposition a Disservice
Evgeny VELIYEV (Russia) Sanctions have strengthened Ahmadinejad. Turkey intends to continue supplying Iran with petroleum products despite the threat of sanctions from the United States, according to an article in the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post referring to an announcement by Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz. “If the preference of the […]
The Clinton-Gates Tandem and U.S. Foreign Policy
Eugene IVANOV (USA) Rumors spread over Washington, DC some time ago that Hillary Clinton may leave her job as Secretary of State. And although a White House spokesman promptly jumped in to claim that the president was very happy with Clinton in her current position, the occasion allowed observers to […]
Can Petraeus repeat the Iraq story?
A stronger United States President than Barack Obama would have probably given a dressing down to his commander in Afghanistan Stanley McChrystal for his team’s indiscretion in making tendentious remarks to the embedded journalist from Rolling Stone magazine, and then ordered him to get on with his job of “degrading” […]
Afghanistan After Obama Visit
Najmuddin A. SHAIKH (Pakistan) Buoyed by his domestic triumph – the passage of the Healthcare Bill – and the conclusion of the new START treaty with Russia- marking a substantial advance towards his oft touted goal of a Nuclear weapon free world President Obama arrived in Kabul on a previously […]
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