Articles by Oriental Review

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Olympic Executioners: Guilty Until Proven Guilty
Mark Chapman – Oriental Review, 15 Aug 2016

The ‘Independent Commission’ did not question or interview any Russian athletes or officials except for the Stepanovs and Grigory Rodchenkov. “The IP did not seek to interview persons living in the Russian Federation …. I did not seek to meet with Russian government officials and did not think it necessary…” And, you see, that’s a problem. Because athletes on the Track and Field team who have never failed a drug test were banned, by association, from competing, on no grounds but their nationality.

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The Olympics as a Tool of the New Cold War
Andrey Fomin | Oriental Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2016

21 Jul 2016 – The allegations of systematic state organised doping by the Russian authorities are founded on the evidence of three compromised individuals and have been presented in a way that denies Russian athletes their fundamental rights.

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Theory of ‘Conspiracy Theorists’
Marcus Godwyn – Oriental Review, 4 Jul 2016

It seems to have become one of the most popular ways of ridiculing somebody’s argument or position, calling into question someone’s sanity or even somebody’s right to their very own existence in recent years are “You’re a conspiracy theorist!”, “That sounds like a conspiracy theory to me!”

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Popular Representation and Democracy in Syria – End of `Alawite Dictatorship’?
Kristian Girling – Oriental Review, 2 May 2016

27 Apr 2016 – Plurality within the parliament is of significance insofar as it is indicative of the involvement of a range of religious communities in Syrian political life and runs directly contrary to the prevailing narrative of Syria as a dictatorship dominated by the Alawite religious community and to the exclusion of the involvement of other religious communities in political activity.

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The Constitutional Coup-Color Revolution Two-Step in Brazil
Andrew Korybko – Oriental Review, 2 May 2016

It was revealed in September 2013 as part of the Snowden Leaks that the NSA had been spying on Petrobras , the company at the heart of the ‘constitutional coup’ scandal, which in turn raises the possibility that the US had obtained ‘compromising’ information on the alleged corruption activities of key ruling party executives and was waiting for the right time to weaponized it. It shouldn’t be seen as coincidental that the “Car Wash” ‘anti-corruption’ investigation began nearly half a year later in March 2014.

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BRICS, Multipolarity and Membership: The 100-200 Million Club
Kristian Girling – Oriental Review, 25 Apr 2016

Since 2010 the BRICS grouping has developed as a focus of organisation. That it has come into existence is indicative of a broader shift towards a multipolar world in international affairs. The success of BRICS so far, other than as a novel attempt at reorientation of states away from Western led and dominated international organisations, is disputed. Nonetheless, it is an increasingly significant grouping and is sufficiently attractive for other states to express interest in membership.

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Armenian-Azeri Tensions Just Got Alarming: Why It’s Happening (I)
Andrew Korybko – Oriental Review, 11 Apr 2016

4 Apr 2016 – The unprecedented upsurge in violence along the Line of Contact between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh has raised universal concern that a larger conflict might be brewing, with some analysts seeing it as an outgrowth of Turkey’s destabilizing anti-Russian policies over the past couple of months.

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Armenian-Azeri Tensions Just Got Alarming: Why It’s Happening (II)
Andrew Korybko – Oriental Review, 11 Apr 2016

There’s nothing to be lost by removing the unipolar states of the US and France from the conflict resolution process and replacing them with multipolar and pragmatic participation of China in hopefully harnessing the Russian-Chinese Strategic Partnership and preventing another recurrence of the Reverse Brzezinski.

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Euromaidan Unmasked: Europe Shocked by the Bitter Truth on Ukraine
Oriental Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Feb 2016

The hard-hitting documentary by Paul Moreira “Ukraine, les masques de la révolution” [Ukraine: Masks of the Revolution], released on Monday [1 Feb 2016] by Canal+, created a turmoil both in Ukraine and France well before the premiere… One more pleasant outcome of this story is that the rumors about clinical death of independent journalism in the West are apparently somewhat exaggerated.

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ASEAN and the New Cold War Battle for Eurasia’s Economic Future (Part 1)
Andrew Korybko – Oriental Review, 21 Dec 2015

14 Dec 2015 – ASEAN’s solid growth in the past few decades has made it an enviable partner for many, and the economic bloc has entered into several high-profile free trade agreements in the past couple of years.

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ASEAN and the New Cold War Battle for Eurasia’s Economic Future (Part 2)
Andrew Korybko – Oriental Review, 21 Dec 2015

14 Dec 2015 – The greatest threat to the multipolar world’s economic relations with ASEAN comes directly from the TPP. The US is pushing this exclusionary trade arrangement in order to obstruct the existing trade partnerships that non-allied countries (Russia and China) plan on enhancing with each of the bloc’s members.

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Netanyahu, War Crimes and the Future of Palestinian State
Iqbal Alimohamed – Oriental Review, 9 Nov 2015

While history abounds with tales of brutal occupation, never has an occupying power presented itself as a victim, and as the only victim around. A Jewish mindset has thus developed to not recognize Palestinians as human beings worthy of equal treatment. In this scenario, it is hard to see how a peaceful solution to the conflict can be achieved.

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Montenegro Could Be Headed for a Mountain of Trouble
Andrew Korybko – Oriental Review, 21 Sep 2015

17 Sep 2015 – The tiny Balkan state of Montenegro is having a Ukrainian-esque “either-or” choice forced upon its population, which in this case is whether or not the country should join NATO by the end of the year.

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US Seek Control of EU Elites via Refugee Crisis
Oriental Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Sep 2015

Exclusive English translation of the interview given by Andrew Korybko to the Iranian FARS News agency on the origins of Syrian war, refugee crisis in the EU and the US interest in making radicals infiltrate Europe.

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Macedonian Media: We Already Have Two Inroads with BRICS
Andrew Korybko – Oriental Review, 3 Aug 2015

27 Jul 2015 – Exclusive English translation of the interview given by our regular correspondent Andrew Korybko to the Macedonian edition “NetPress” on the failed coup d’etat in the country, US policy in the Balkans, Greek crisis and its regional implications, as well as alternative development models proposed by BRICS and other non-Western integration mechanisms to Macedonia and other states.

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The New “Red Menace” and NATO’s Plans in the Arctic
Oriental Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2015

NATO’s military-political expansion in Europe is generally targeted to follow a trajectory running from Washington to the Northeast, and thus the Americans’ Arctic policy continues to grow more aggressive. Washington’s increasing pressure on the nonaligned Arctic states (Finland and Sweden) is intended to promote their further rapprochement with the alliance.

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New Strategic Calculus for the Balkans (I)
Andrew Korybko – Oriental Review, 1 Jun 2015

18 May 2015 – The Balkans have returned to the forefront of European geopolitics as a result of the New Cold War, with the US and Russia facing off in a proxy war over the planned Balkan Stream pipeline through the region.

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New Strategic Calculus for the Balkans (II)
Andrew Korybko – Oriental Review, 1 Jun 2015

Since the general idea and genesis behind the Central Balkans have been discussed, it is now time to turn towards their three most important strategic characteristics.

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The Silk Road Stretches to South America
Andrew Korybko – Oriental Review, 25 May 2015

The Twin Ocean Railroad far-reaching project endeavors to construct a 5,300 km railroad from Brazil to Peru, traversing some of the world’s most difficult and sensitive terrain. It should be expected that the US will mobilize its proxies in whichever manner it can in order to push back against it at all costs.

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US-Russia Round Three: Macedonia
Andrew Korybko – Oriental Review, 18 May 2015

15 May 2015 – The US and Russia are involved in heated competition amidst the New Cold War with their latest rivalry over Macedonia. They had already duked it out over Ukraine and a deadly stalemate has settled over Syria. Given the enormous long-term strategic stakes involved (liberating Europe with multipolarity or keeping it shackled in unipolarity), the Third Round of the US-Russian geopolitical confrontation might be its most climactic one yet.

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Tragedy of Nemtsov’s Death Hijacked by Denigrators of Putin
William Dunkerley – Oriental Review, 9 Mar 2015

2 Mar 2015 – The day following Boris Nemtsov’s murder on Friday, February 27, Western media were in a gluttonous frenzy over the tragedy. The death is being offered as affirmation of the nearly-unanimous villainous image that Putin has in the West.

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China and Its Economic and Geopolitical Eurasian Strategy
Gulam Asgar Mitha – Oriental Review, 9 Mar 2015

“….in the meantime it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger (to the US) emerges capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America.”
Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, April 1997

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The Importance of the Cancellation of South Stream
Alexander Mercouris – Oriental Review, 8 Dec 2014

The reaction to the cancellation of the South Stream project has been a wonder to behold and needs to be explained very carefully. In order to understand what has happened it is first necessary to go back to the way Russian-European relations were developing in the 1990s.

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A Eurasian Gas Bombshell
Alexander Sotnichenko - Oriental Review, 8 Dec 2014

At the Dec. 1 joint press conference held by the leaders of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia was abandoning its ambitious South Stream project that would have significantly increased the supply of gas to Europe.

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Why Is Russia Going to Skip the Nuclear Security Summit in the US?
Vladimir Kozin – Oriental Review, 24 Nov 2014

The Russian Foreign Ministry explained that its aversion to taking part in the preparations for the fourth summit, to be held in the US, has nothing to do with the Ukrainian crisis or even some other circumstances unrelated to this forum, but rather stems from the following:

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‘German Politicians Are US Puppets’
Udo Ulfkotte – Oriental Review, 10 Nov 2014

“Now the Americans are even considering blowing up a nuclear power plant in Ukraine and then insisting that the culprits were either separatists or Russians,” claims the German journalist Udo Ulfkotte, former correspondent from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the largest German newspapers.

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Putin to Western Elites: Play-Time Is Over
Dmitry Orlov – Oriental Review, 10 Nov 2014

Regardless of what you think or don’t think of Putin this is probably the most important political speech since Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech of March 5, 1946.

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Massive New Debt Hides Years of Negative GDP Growth in EU and USA
Jon Hellevig – Oriental Review, 6 Oct 2014

In a groundbreaking study Awara Group reveals that the real GDP growth of Western countries has been in negative territory for years. Only by massively loading up debt have they been able to hide the true picture.

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An Exception to American Exceptionalism (Part III)
Valery Fadeev – Oriental Review, 29 Sep 2014

The Myth of Isolation – Much of the international media claim that Russia’s conduct during the crisis in Ukraine has isolated the country, made her a pariah, and that the entire civilized world has turned from her in disdain. Is this really so?

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An Exception to American Exceptionalism (Part II)
Valery Fadeev – Oriental Review, 22 Sep 2014

A New World System: The Moral Foundations – In addition to national interests, which are an eternal component of global politics, there is another factor with much greater impact, and this is the moral basis that underpins the players acting upon the world stage.

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An Exception to American Exceptionalism (Part I)
Valery Fadeev – Oriental Review, 15 Sep 2014

Let us first examine the military and strategic aspects of the Ukrainian crisis from the Russian standpoint. What did Eastern Europe look like at the beginning of 2014? Russia was surrounded by a sea of American military bases.

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Why Is the West Destined to Decline?
Adam Lesak – Oriental Review, 15 Sep 2014

It is not quite correct to refer to the increasing Western hostilities against Russia as a Cold War, because that connotes the idea of an antagonism between opposing ideological camps, as used to be the case between the Soviet block and the West.

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