Oriental Review

2022-07-10 11:53:18 The Goal Of A Lesser Life

From my earliest childhood, I always heard the future spoken of in superlatives: the best, the best possible, etc. There was an unspoken assumption that each human being was uniquely suited to something and that if they found that unique thing and worked at it, they could become the best at something. Some of my…

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2022-07-09 16:30:03 President Putin Reaffirmed That Russia Isn’t Yet Waging A War In Ukraine

Russia could indeed escalate its special military operation to a literal war as a reciprocal response to the US-led West’s increasingly intensified proxy war on it through Ukraine, though that hasn’t yet happened. Even so, President Putin still felt it necessary to remind everyone about this in the faint hope that cooler heads will prevail.…

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2022-07-09 10:28:33 The West Is Abandoning Ukraine

On July 7th, Bloomberg News headlined “EU Bureaucracy Seen Blocking 1.5 Billion-Euro Loan to Ukraine”, and reported that, “The executive arm of the European Union is blocking a 1.5 billion-euro ($1.5 billion) loan for Ukraine as caution prevails over the country’s urgent needs, according to officials.” America alone has donated and loaned, during this year,…

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2022-07-08 16:30:41 EU Economies Are Down On Their Knees

On July 1 at the White House, US President Joe Biden made a startling disclosure that “the idea we’re going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term.” American gas exporters have positioned themselves accordingly to fill the gap as Europe turns away…

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2022-07-08 09:24:40 Abandoning The Sinking Rat: Boris Johnson Resigns

Like the political equivalent of a cockroach, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived and endured one strike after another.  His credibility was shot, his mendacity second to none.  He lost the confidence of a party that delighted in his buffoonish performances and appeal.  Fearing electoral punishment, senior ministers and aides have left his side.  Labour…

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2022-07-07 17:06:14 How The U.S. Government Hides Its Being A Dictatorship

How did this come to be? The same group of around a thousand people who control the U.S. Government are also in control over the major newsmedia and also over the major academic institutions and think tanks and ‘charitable’ foundations, so that the public are deceived, by those ‘news’-media and the ‘experts’ that they publicize,…

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2022-07-07 08:56:02 Turkey, NATO Joined At Hips But Think Differently

Turkey has had an uneasy history as a NATO member country. The push and pull of strategic autonomy constantly grated against a security guarantee the alliance offered and also a way of reinforcing its Western identity. The West wanted Turkey because of the Cold War. The enigma still continues: Was Turkey’s shift from neutrality to…

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2022-07-06 17:05:02 Kissinger’s Davos Speech, At The Age Of 99, Shows He Never Understood What He Was Doing

Nixon’s Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, assisted the U.S. Government’s evils in Vietnam, but also helped China to moderate away from Mao’s rigid Marxism. (Mao considered himself to be applying Marx’s views to a then still predominantly rural national culture.) In both matters, he was reflecting the policy preferences of Republican-Party billionaires, at the time,…

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2022-07-06 09:04:52 AUKUS Submarines: Beasts Of Nuclear Proliferation

When faced with the option of acquiring nuclear technology, states have rarely refused.  Since the splitting of the atom and the deployment of atomic weapons in war, the acquisition of a nuclear capacity has been a dream.  Those who did acquire it, in turn, tried to restrict others from joining what has become, over the…

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2022-07-05 16:24:54 The Agony Of The West

The G7 summit in Bavaria and the Nato summit in Madrid were supposed to announce the West’s punishment of the Kremlin for its “special military operation in Ukraine”. But, if the image given was that of Western unity, the reality attests to their disconnection from reality, their loss of audience in the world and ultimately…

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