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Oct 28 2023 Iran-Russia set a western trap in Palestine
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
The Russia-Iran strategic partnership – with China in the wings – is laying an elaborate, Sun Tzu-tinged trap for the Hegemon in West Asia.
Apart from Israel, there is no entity on the planet capable of switching the focus, in a flash, away from the west’s spectacular debacle in… Continue reading
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Oct 28 2023 Daily Chronicles (the Gaza Chronicles – we will keep this thread up until we have a good view of the direction that this is going to take)
The Daily Chronicles — please use this space as an open thread, to share and/or discuss latest news and events.
I will again do the daily’s of the day as I can and as accurate as possible. (As much as I can folks .. I’m not yet completely in a fully restored state of health…)
I had… Continue reading
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Oct 26 2023 The Middle East war and Europe’s LNG implosion
With thanks to Jorge Vilches, our writer.
“The Middle East war and Europe’s LNG implosion”
by Jorge VilchesThe EU was based on peace, growth, and the foremost 4 freedoms. Not upon the current painfull warfare, repression, vassalization, divisiveness, forceful migrations and hardship. Now Germany – the EU powerhouse– with this failing strategy is losing world-class exports as scarcities… Continue reading
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Oct 24 2023 Israeli Genocide – No End and the World Looks on
Israeli Genocide – No End and the World Looks on
Peter Koenig
24 October 2023Dear People of all races, of all creeds, of all nationalities, of all ethnicities, of all Continents, of the entire World,
Look at these pictures (below) – look at them as if they would talk about your brothers and sisters, about your own children… Continue reading
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Oct 23 2023 The Duran: Neocons cannot be stopped, they will get war
In the setting of the US refusal at the UNSC to permit a ceasefire in Palestine, reconfirmed by both Blinken and spokesman John Kirby in the last day, and increasing influx of arms, ships, warplanes, and troops into West Asia, a perfect storm is rising. The usual suspects are concurrently escalating in the Ukraine against… Continue reading
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Oct 23 2023 The Palestinian Tragedy: Cui bono?
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture Foundation.
As it stands we have 3 wins for the Hegemon and 1 win for its aircraft carrier nation in West Asia.
By now it’s fully established who is profiting from the ghastly Palestine tragedy.
As it stands we have 3 wins for the Hegemon and 1 win for its… Continue reading
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Oct 21 2023 Orthodox Russia Serves Notice!
Amid the last two weeks of heart-stopping genocidal barbarity in occupied Palestine, much attention was focused on the Muslims’ internal plight and their external response in neighboring countries, with massive crowds chanting, “beat, beat, beat Tel Aviv, Nasrallah!” Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah of the Lebanese Hezbollah has been circumspect so far, carefully aligned with the graduated… Continue reading
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Oct 21 2023 Psychos on Parade… Western Leaders Complicit in Israeli War Crimes and Genocide
This is a repost of an editorial published at the Strategic Culture
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Western leaders lining up with the Israeli regime in its genocidal barbarity are fully complicit in that genocide.
Western leaders have been traipsing to Tel Aviv over the past week, vowing to give their full support for Israel even as the Israeli regime wantonly wages… Continue reading
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Oct 20 2023 Russia, China Map Out New Economic Order in Beijing
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnik
History – complete with poetic justice overtones – presented us this week with the ultimate, glaring contrast between the geopolitics of the past, enacted in an incendiary corner of southwest Asia, and the geopolitics of the future, enacted in East Asia’s Beijing, one of the capitals of emerging multipolarity.
Let’s… Continue reading
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Oct 19 2023 Multipolarity: China, Russia, Israel, India, and the difficult birth of a new world
Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar
transcript
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 17th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I’m Radhika Desai.
MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson.
RADHIKA DESAI: And today, once again, we are joined by the roving reporter… Continue reading
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Oct 18 2023 Russia’s neutrality ballet on Israel-Palestine
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
While some Russian heavyweights push to recast Israel as a hostile state, the Kremlin is unlikely to budge. Instead, Moscow will stay ‘neutral’ to maximize its West Asian influence, all while edging closer to the Arab and Muslim worlds.
Is it possible that the philo-Semitic Russian President Vladimir Putin… Continue reading
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Oct 17 2023 Rostislav Ishchenko: Beijing raises the stakes
Rostislav Ishchenko asks “What is China trying to achieve in the Middle East crisis?” This article has been machine translated from ukraina.ru
Vladimir Putin will soon travel to China, where he will open his fifth dozen meetings with Xi Jinping at the Belt and Road Forum on October 17.
The two leaders had a lot to talk… Continue reading
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Oct 16 2023 What is the priority of Israel? Save hostages? or level Gaza?
Please see accompanying thoughts by Alistair Crooke, “Pulling the Roof Down on Today’s Paradigm” posted at Strategic Culture