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Feb 04 2025 
The Riviera of the Middle East – this could be so magnificent
Trump will take over Gaza for the US, scatter the Gazan Palestinians to the four winds and develop the Riviera of the Middle East for ‘the world’s people’.
His maga media considers a complete ethnic cleansing on top of genocide just wonderful. US MAGA Media: “Why not give something new a try?” while they have… Continue reading
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Feb 04 2025 
Ottoman Empire 2.0?
Pepe Escobar joins #NewRulesPodcast to discuss Turkey’s political and economic expansion in Syria, Africa, and Central Asia.
(2:20) Turkey’s political elites
(7:42) 90% of Turkish elites are Atlanticists
(11:31) Erdogan’s double game with Russia and China
(16:16) Will Syria backfire?
(27:12) Turkey: Energy superpower?
(32:50) Central Asia: Turkey’s next frontier
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Feb 03 2025 
Welcome to the gaslighting jungle
Let’s start with USAID. There is rejoicing all around because it is going to be closed. Musk thunders his ‘victory’. (Let me say at this time that I am no fan of USAID or NED, and it should be dismantled – on the other hand, economic dependency on the US must be broken). No, no,… Continue reading
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Feb 02 2025 
Wolff Responds: “It Should Be Called A Purge”
Dr. Richard Wolff
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Feb 02 2025 
The Chihuahua Energy Policy: it’s a gas, gas, gas
European chihuahuas, enjoy your “strategic defeat” fantasies!
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Let’s start with the tale of an Empire bragging to the wind.
Mr. Disco Inferno orders OPEC and OPEC+ to lower the price of oil, because, in his mind, that may solve the war in Ukraine – as in forcing Moscow to the table… Continue reading
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Jan 30 2025 
What Sültan Erdogan is really up to
On the table, a geopolitical banquet – served by some of the best independent analytical minds from Bursa to Diyarbakir.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
CONSTANTINOPLE – The scene is a Circassian restaurant off fabled Istiklal street in historic Beyoglu. On the table, a geopolitical banquet – served by some of the best independent… Continue reading
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Jan 28 2025 
Dancing to Trump’s Disco Inferno
The spectacle of Trump’s sound and fury … something veils the same old imperial mindset, now blasting out in the open as a weaponized three-ring circus.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
In the late 1970s Donald Trump, in his early thirties, cocky as ever and recently married to Ivana in 1977, could be seen on and off… Continue reading -
Jan 23 2025 
Key takeaways from US President Donald Trump’s address at the World Economic Forum in Davos:
We have to examine these events, but it is quite boring now to watch the pursuit of “manifest destiny.”
🔹Former US President Joe Biden totally lost control of what was going on in the US, in particular with the high inflation, his administration created economic chaos;
🔹The United States has the largest amount of oil and gas,… Continue reading
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Jan 23 2025 
Saudi Arabia’s $600 Billion Investment in the United States: Strategy and Economics
Saudi Arabia’s recent announcement of a $600 billion investment and trade commitment to the United States over the next four years marks a significant milestone in bilateral relations, reflecting both economic ambition and geopolitical strategy. Let us examine the context, motivations, and implications of this historic pledge.
The Announcement and Context
On January 23, 2025, Crown Prince… Continue reading
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Jan 23 2025 
Trump Shocks the World
Genocide segues into beach front real estate. Pepe begins the beguine at 58 min.
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Jan 23 2025 
The Age of Interplanetary Exceptionalism
Only the U.S. can rebrand a genocide into a great real estate opportunity in a “phenomenal location”.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Let’s start with the key take away: Manifest Destiny reaching the stars. Literally.
Trump 2.0 – the greatest show on earth – did start with a (big) bang: “We will pursue our Manifest… Continue reading
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Jan 22 2025 
Global Exports Brink of Collapse, Ultimatum to China’s Economy
Sean Foo on tariffs
The video title is perhaps a bit overstated but nevertheless, this is the situation. We are staring into a trade war. My expectation is that selling into the US is going to reduce as I cannot see the BRICS countries continue with trade.
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Jan 20 2025 
Revival of Empire, Fortress America: Key takeaways from US President-elect Donald Trump’s pre-inauguration speech
Ria Novosti did the work to take down the key takeaways as I refused to sit through the Empiral Ra Ra. This is probably the first time in the history of GlobalSouth.co that we feature a Trump speech, or any US speech in some detail. Times change and we are in a transformative phase in… Continue reading
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Jan 15 2025 
I’m gonna MAGA you, Baby
No wonder Trump had to come up with a seductive, but still fraught with danger, larger than life psy op to imperatively change the narrative.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
It’s the greatest show on earth – unleashing a double bill of New Paradigm and Manifest Destiny on crack. We are the greatest. We will… Continue reading
