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 […]
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What Really Happened In Abbotabad
The White House claims Navy seals carried out an operation and killed Osama bin Laden. But basically there is no fact to back this claim. Let us go over the known facts from residents and the non-US media. During the night, there was an electric power cut. Helicopters were heard […]
Obama Killed Osama
The spontaneous celebrations of the assassination of Osama bin Laden that are spilling across the US reflect the extent to which the American society was traumatized by the September 11 drama. In the aftermath of media reports of the killing of “the number one terrorist” along with his innocent relatives, […]
The War on Terror Is Over?
We have already noted at the mayhem of 2011 Middle East-North Africa protests that Muammar Gaddafi fighting pro-Al-Qaeda Islamists is now replacing Ben Laden as incarnation of ‘absolute Evil’ in mainstream media. On May 1, 2011 we got a logical consequence of this political trend: President Obama has declared Osama […]
It is Time for Obama to Demonstrate True Courage and Statesmanship
John F. Kennedy said: “There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” For Mr. Obama, it is time for action! When Mr Obama was elected to the US Presidency, he vowed to tackle and […]
China And India: Hitting the Great Wall
By Rupakjyoti Borah (India) The visit of the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to India between December 15 and 17 generated much euphoria in India and across Asia. China and India are two of the fastest growing economies in the world and their growing importance in international affairs is becoming increasingly […]
Brand-New War for America
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 […]
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 […]
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