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Russia & Asia: the Emerging Order
The Valdai Club is hosting their end-of-year conference titled Russia and Asia: the Emerging International Order. These are expert discussions and all worth looking at. You can find the various live videos on the program and transcripts will become available:
Dynamics of Asia’s Development Amidst Rebuilding the International Order (live)
Future of Energy and Food Markets (live)
Potential… 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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Non-US Dollar trade is now a marketing term
I believe today (December 9th, 2022) we saw somewhat of a coup d’état, a major step towards leaving the US Dollar behind, in a blistering scenario.
1. Xi Jinping’s visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) encompassed three separate summits, the first being China’s state visit to Saudi. Two other summits, a China-Gulf summit, and… Continue reading
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Latin America: ‘Regional Financial Architecture’
From Ben Norton at multipolarista.com (with permission)
Ed Note: Reading this excellent piece from Ben in conjunction with the recently posted Valdai Club article, Latin America, Key to Multipolar Transition must convince us of the very important role that this region has to play: https://thesakeris.global/2022/12/01/latin-america-key-to-multipolar-transition/
Latin America’s plan to challenge US dollar with new currency and ‘regional… Continue reading -
Latin America, Key to Multipolar Transition
From the Valdai Club
The key to the multipolar transition is the opening of the Latin American front, that is the shifting of the center of gravity of the great power competition from Eurasia to the Americas. The question is whether America’s challengers will be willing or able to do so, writes Emanuel Pietrobon.
Eurafrasia is the… 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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The Crux of the Putin-Xi Revolution
The Crux of the Putin-Xi Revolution for a New World Order – Arresting the Slide to Nihilism
Reprinted from Strategic Culture and within their framework: Republishing is welcomed with reference to Strategic Culture online journal www.strategic-culture.org.
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Ed. Note: This article by Alastair Crooke is one of the best that I have ever seen. The writing grabs the… Continue reading
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Nov 29 2022 
US paralyzed by Islamic Republic of Iran’s strategic swing
By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission, and first posted at PressTV
Iran’s parliament has just approved the accession of the Islamic Republic to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), previously enshrined at the Samarkand summit last September, marking the culmination of a process that lasted no less than 15 years.
Iran has already applied to become… Continue reading
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New ‘Slow Coup’ attempt in Bolivia
Ben Norton and Ollie Vargas update on the new attempt at a coup in Bolivia.
Take note of the Ustasha/Ustaša influence in Boliva (same as the Ukrainian Nazis and Fascists) and the Bolivian Economic Model. There is also information about the Amazon and the interaction with Brazil.
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Nov 27 2022 
Operation Claw-Sword:
Erdogan’s big new game in Syria
Wily Sultan is caught between his electorate, which favors a Syria invasion, and his extremely nuanced relations with RussiaBy Pepe Escobar and first posted at Asia Times
There’s another Special Military Operation on the market. No, it’s not Russia “denazifying” and “demilitarizing” Ukraine – and, therefore, it’s no wonder that… Continue reading
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BRICS
TASS reports Mr Lavrov’s comments on BRICS. The list of countries wanting to join, is growing.
Lavrov lauds BRICS as model for true multilateral diplomacy
The top diplomat added that global issues in many spheres can be resolved only through multilateral cooperation and, in this context, pointed to the forum’s broad agenda.I summarize but this is a… Continue reading
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Electric War
By Pepe Escobar, and always with his permission. First posted at Strategic Culture
Current Russian tactics are the absolute opposite of the military theory of concentrated force developed by Napoleon, Pepe Escobar writes.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
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Pepe Escobar & Danny Haipong
Live now:
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COP27: No Commitments on Climate Change
Climate change is a hot topic. We know of course that there is a portion, a large percentage of the climate change playbook that is pure twaddle and pure commoditizing of climate in order to be able to sell it, and trade on it. But our climate changes all the time. Currently, it is measured… Continue reading
