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Nov 29 2025 
Slices of Life, #16
“People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad. “As humans, we’re born naked and will leave with nothing,” yet another monk speaks.”
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Bill Gates, Primo Levi and Max Beckmann in Vietnam — Nov 13, 2025.
Just before 5AM, I got a… Continue reading
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Jul 23 2025 
AI is the New Empire
Exploring the dystopian technofeudalism at heart of the western A.I. race
The unnamed book EMPIRE OF AI is mine, based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, & my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI’s perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order:… Continue reading
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Jun 10 2025 
How to fact-check Techno-Feudalism?
There are auspicious signs on the other side of dystopia. And right here in Russia.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The Global Digital Forum last week in delightful Nizhny Novgorod represented a landmark in the quest for a more equitable media landscape across the whole Global South.
Pride of place was taken by a new… Continue reading
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Apr 29 2025 
China Steps Up Its Game in the Global AI Race
Huawei chips are already the real deal for every Chinese company which is following the new Beijing-defined direction to reduce any reliance on American technology
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
Late next month, Huawei will be testing its new powerful AI processor, the Ascend 910 D, even as by early May the previous 910C will start to… Continue reading
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Mar 03 2025 
Why Chinese models are stunning Americans in the tech catwalk
All’s set for a do-or-die U.S.-China tech duel ahead. The Middle Kingdom is unfazed – and ready to rock’n roll. The Chinese drive to totally redefine the rules of tech innovation. Liang Wenfeng is adamant: “We’re done following. It’s time to lead.” It’s about the common good, not about a Wall Street killing.
By Pepe Escobar… Continue reading
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Feb 14 2025 
TECHNOFEUDALISM
Meet America’s New Oligarch Ruling Class
🚨🇺🇸🤖 TECHNOFEUDALISM: Meet America’s New Oligarch Ruling Class
Pepe Escobar joins us to discuss how the US Deep State created Big Tech, why China’s technological innovation model is superior, and Trump’s obsession with AI dominance.
(01:42) What is technofeudalism?… pic.twitter.com/YntxsLx13w
— NewRulesGeopolitics (@NewRulesGeo) February 13, 2025Pepe Escobar joins the New Rules Podcast to… 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 
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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Jul 20 2024 
US Grand Strategy in the Middle East to Contain China
Hamas & unhackable Huawei? Fighting the last (energy denial) war against Imperial Japan, 85+ years later? And other Exceptionalist conundrums navigating “Strategery in our Greater Middle East.”
Carl Zha talks to long term Chine observer Peter Lee aka chinahand on X of the Peter Lee’s China Threat Report about the US Grand Strategy in the Middle… Continue reading
