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Jan 18 2023 
‘Fragmented world’ sleepwalks into World War III
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at PressTV
The self-appointed Davos “elites” are afraid. So afraid. At this week’s World Economic Forum meetings, mastermind Klaus Schwab – displaying his trademark Bond villain act – carped over and over again about a categorical imperative: we need “Cooperation in a Fragmented World”.
While his diagnosis of “the most critical fragmentation”… Continue reading
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Jan 16 2023 
All Quiet (Panic) on the Western Front
By Pepe Escobar (raw document, not yet cross-posted https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/5995)
Shadows are falling / And I’ve been here all day / It’s too hot to sleep / And time is running away / Feel like my soul / has turned into steel /I’ve still got the scars / That the sun didn’t heal / There’s not even… Continue reading
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Jan 08 2023
Bye Bye 1991-2022
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
2023 starts with collective NATO in Absolutely Freak Out Mode as Russian Defense Minister Shoigu announces that Russian Navy frigate Admiral Gorshkov is now on tour – complete with a set of Mr. Zircon’s hypersonic business cards.
The business tour will encompass the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean,… Continue reading
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Jan 06 2023 
Why BRI is back with a bang in 2023
As Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative enters its 10th year, a strong Sino-Russian geostrategic partnership has revitalized the BRI across the Global South.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
The year 2022 ended with a Zoom call to end all Zoom calls: Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping discussing all aspects of the Russia-China… Continue reading
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Jan 01 2023 
A Retrospective of 2022 and Forebodings for 2023
From guest-writer AHH and now part of our chronicles
“During this year, we saw the popularity of a new kind of coup culminating in 2 coups in 2 days in Latin America: Peru and Argentina. These are visible as a parliamentary coup or judicial lawfare. Trade wars must be so passe.”
This is an excellent observation and… Continue reading -
Dec 23 2022
Can China help Brazil restart its global soft power?
Bolsonaro reduced Brazil to resources-exporter status; now Lula should follow Argentina’s lead into Belt and Road
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Asia Times
Ten days of full immersion in Brazil are not for the faint-hearted. Even restricted to the top two megalopolises, Sao Paulo and Rio, watching live the impact of interlocking economic, political, social… Continue reading
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Dec 22 2022 
Sanctions: A weapon for subordination
First posted at Multipolarista.com
How sanctions are a weapon of imperialism, used to subordinate the Global SouthThe International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism explains how US, EU, and UN sanctions are a means of controlling Global South sovereignty and blocking the emergence of a multipolar world, to maintain the neocolonial capitalist order. ByHelyeh Doutaghi, Corinna Mullin… Continue reading
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Dec 18 2022 
A Travelogue of Felix Arabia, late Autumn 2022
A Travelogue of Felix Arabia, by our own AHH
Summary
Caveat lector: a week’s travel is insufficient to get a good handle on a different people. That being said I married a woman born in and of southern Yemeni culture and learned much over the years from her and their other expats. Additionally, I have a huge… Continue reading
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Dec 17 2022
Xi of Arabia and the petroyuan drive
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
It would be so tempting to qualify Chinese President Xi Jinping landing in Riyadh a week ago, welcomed with royal pomp and circumstance, as Xi of Arabia proclaiming the dawn of the petroyuan era.
But it’s more complicated than that. As much as the seismic shift implied by… Continue reading
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Michael Hudson interview with a German radio station with reach!
Our most favorite economist and he has such a (black) sense of humor. “MH: Ukraine hardly can be rebuilt. First of all, much of its population has left, and is unlikely to return, given the destruction of housing and infrastructure – and husbands.” Prepare a cup of tea, sit back and read… Continue reading
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Two X Escobar
Pepe says: “I talked to Press TV about Brazil before my current whirlwind tour – back to Europe tomorrow. The itvw was uploaded this past weekend – and of course some of what I learned on the spot is waaaay more complicated…”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/12/10/694224/Future-of-Brazil
And his conversation (in Portugese): Brazil and its new foreign policy
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Rebuttal to “China is Capitalist”
From Jeff J Brown and just excellent and in-depth material. You will probably need a cup of tea or two:
Rebuttal to “China is Capitalist: The Religiosity of ‘The Myth of Chinese Capitalism’, by Ron Leighton. Dr T P Wilkinson interviews Jeff J. Brown.Pictured above: Far left is Deng Xiaoping; to his left is Zhou Enlai… Continue reading
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Nov 30 2022
The Global South: new payment system
The Global South births a new game-changing payment system
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The CradleThe Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) is speeding up its design of a common payment system, which has been closely discussed for nearly a year with the Chinese under the stewardship of Sergei Glazyev, the EAEU’s minister in charge of… Continue reading
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Nov 27 2022 
Your Chinese Apple
By Larry Romanoff and posted with permission
(Ed Note: This is much appreciated and leads to an understanding of the Foxconn issues in China, now used mercilessly for another and upgraded ‘China Bad’ campaign)
I want to make it clear from the start that I have no quarrel with Apple products. I am not an Apple fan,… Continue reading
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