21/10/2014 - Oriental Review

Day: October 21, 2014

Will Serbia Turn to the East? The Real Significance of Putin’s Visit

21/10/2014 by ORIENTAL REVIEW / 7 comments

Cheered by tens of thousands of citizens, columns of Serbian tanks, armored cars, and thousands of infantry men paraded down Nikola Tesla Boulevard, Thursday, in New Belgrade. The parade’s destination was the Palace of Serbia, where international leaders, dignitaries and high ranking generals of foreign militaries stood in bleachers to […]

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The Pornography of Moral Outrage: The Chibok Girls and Boko Haram

21/10/2014 by Binoy KAMPMARK / 1 comment

If the militant group Boko Haram can be deemed a virus, then it has rich material to feed off. The cells of its enrichment remain those complicit in its achievements within Nigeria and beyond. Even as there remains a continued fascination with the girls kidnapped by the group six months […]

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A Caliph in a wilderness of mirrors

21/10/2014 by ORIENTAL REVIEW

I’m aiming at you, lover Cause killing you is killing myself – Orson Welles (director), The Lady from Shanghai,1947 He’s invincible. He beheads. He smuggles. He conquers. He’s the ultimate jack-of-all-trades. No Tomahawk or Hellfire can touch him. He always gets what he wants; in Kobani; in Anbar province; with the House […]

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