About
In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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Tag Archives: islam
REPRINT: Bourgeois UK Police State Cracks Down On Freedom Protesters
The British like to interfere in other countries’ sovereign affairs, usually on the pretext of “human rights abuses” or somesuch made up nonsense that they then use to pressure them or outright bomb and attack them with the rest of … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile
Tagged authoritarianism, islam, uk, western hypocrisy, western media
12 Comments
Interview with Craig Willy (Letters from Europe)
After a year long hiatus from interviewing Russia watchers, I decided it was time to get back in the game. As it happens, my attention first fell on a Europe blogger – and not just any incisive, counter-intuitive scribbler whose intellect and … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Watching the Russia Watchers
Tagged blogging, craig willy, demography, economy, energy, eu, europe, france, futurism, gas, guest, interview, islam, islamophobia, marxism, national comparisons, politics, russia, uk, usa
4 Comments
Orientalism Overload
This might well be my favorite cable so far – perhaps even better than the Caucasus wedding - courtesy of US ambassador to Iran Bruce Laingen in August 1979. Now maybe US diplomats are culturally West-centric and insular today, but they’ve … Continue reading
Posted in The Sublime Cables
Tagged cable, humor, international relations, iran, islam, orientalism, usa, western hypocrisy, wikileaks
8 Comments
Chechnya, A Once And Future War?
Truly, if Willian Burns were to issue an anthology of his Moscow cables during his 2005-2008 ambassadorship, I’d seriously consider buying it. Just consider this cable from May 2006, on Chechnya’s “Once and Future War”, a nuanced US view of … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, The Sublime Cables
Tagged cable, chechnya, corruption, human rights, imperialism, islam, nationalism, politics, russia, terrorism, usa, war, wikileaks, william burns
7 Comments
Wikileaks As A Mirror On The West
EDIT: This article has been translated into Russian at Inosmi.Ru (Wikileaks как зеркальное отображение Запада); almost as if to prove my point here! A foreign “subversive” journalist, driven by fevered idealism, publishes reams of leaked internal documents from an Authority … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, The Sublime Cables
Tagged assange, authoritarianism, azerbaijan, cablegate, china, corruption, crime, espionage, feminism, georgia, imperialism, islam, islamophobia, rant, russia, surkov, sweden, terrorism, usa, western hypocrisy, western media, wikileaks
25 Comments
My Interview on Middle East Geopolitics, Afghanistan and Iran & the Bomb with Marat Kunaev
I was recently interviewed on Middle East geopolitics and the Iran Question by Marat Kunaev, a blogger and translator at InoForum. I would like to thank him for the opportunity to express my views on the topic and providing a possible … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged afghanistan, armenia, azerbaijan, caucasus, china, energy, futurism, geopolitics, georgia, india, international relations, interview, iran, islam, islamophobia, israel, me, middle east, military, peak water, rise of the rest, russia, usa, war, water, western hypocrisy
38 Comments
Interview with Peter Lavelle (Russia Today)
The next installment of our Watching the Russia Watchers series at S/O features an interview with Peter Lavelle, the main political analyst at the Russia Today TV network, host of its CrossTalk debate show and Untimely Thoughts blogger. (He also … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Watching the Russia Watchers
Tagged blogging, chechnya, collapse, corruption, futurism, georgia, global warming, human rights, international relations, interview, islam, islamophobia, israel, journalism, palestine, politics, putin, rise of the rest, russia, russians, russophobes, usa, western hypocrisy, western media
13 Comments
Review of “The Lucifer Principle” (H. Bloom), or: Fascism is the Natural State
Depressingly fatalist, morbidly truthful, irresistibly Nietzschean. That’s Howard Bloom’s “The Lucifer Principle” in a nutshell: a meandering trawl through disciplines such as genetics, psychology and culture that culminates in a theory of evil, purporting to explain its historical necessity, its creative … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, culture, demography, feminism, history, human rights, imperialism, islam, life, morale, politics, psychology, review, war, western hypocrisy
19 Comments
Top 5 Demography Myths
In this post, I intend to disprove or at least question five commonly encountered myths about world demography (as I already did for Russia). 1. The Third World is experiencing a fertility-driven population explosion. Whereas this was true a generation … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged demography, economy, europe, futurism, islam, vision
46 Comments
Could Israel vs. Flotilla be part of Turkey’s bid for Regional Hegemony?
As was inevitable, the commentary on Israel’s raid / high seas piracy / legal blockade enforcement / call-it-what-you-will has degenerated into a polarized flame-war between the blind and the deaf, which although very entertaining is also pretty useless*. By far … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arabs, egypt, futurism, geopolitics, international relations, islam, israel, middle east, nuclear, palestine, turkey, vision
16 Comments