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May 20 2025 
A Roving Persian Glance
The coming Anglo-Zionist Messianic Storm
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May 17 2025 
The Istanbul Kabuki — decoded
The endgame is clear: the US losing the entire Eurasian land mass. Ukraine, under these immense geopolitical imperatives, is only a sovereign-deprived pawn in the (Great) Game.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Did President Putin really change the game by proposing the resumption of negotiations on the proxy war in Ukraine in Istanbul –… Continue reading
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May 01 2025 
Pepe with Judge Napolitano
Thanks to Tariffs, China Ditching US Tech. Napolitano interviews geopolitician Pepe Escobar, April 30th, 2025.
“… in this wilderness of narrative mirrors, Trump should be perceived as all characters combined: the White Rabbit, Humpty Dumpty (“When I use a word, it means what I choose to mean, no more and no less”), the Mad Hatter, the… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2025 
China, Hong Kong and The Art of Blinking
Captain Chaos definitely does not have the cards – which as even South Pacific penguins know, are all made in China.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
SHANGHAI and HONG KONG – So, predictably, Captain Chaos did blink first. As much as he – and his sprawling media circus – could not possibly admit it.
It all… Continue reading
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Apr 21 2025 
The Shanghai Spirit – China Will Take No Bullying
Shanghai shows China relishes its new role as a Resistance beacon, bent on defying bullying, busy building a Global Majority consensus. It’s all about strategic patience …
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
SHANGHAI – There could not be a more strategic place to spend these past Trump Tariff Tizzy (TTT) heady days than in Shanghai –… Continue reading -
Apr 20 2025 
The Coalescing Orange Chaos
The Panel: a bemused historian, diplomat, and soldier sift through the entrails of a near-decomposing but spastic and enraged behemoth.
Nima Alkhorshid of Dialogue Works interviews Mohammad Marandi, Larry Wilkerson & Chas Freeman as the clock ticks for Iran and U.S.: Talks or Total War? The constant changes of tack and talking points by Witkoff and… Continue reading
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Apr 13 2025 
Why China won’t call a ‘tariff-wielding barbarian’
Three wise monkeys are perfectly aware of what a pigeon posing as eagle is really up to.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The Toddler Temper Tantrum-style Trump Tariff Tizzy (TTT), now accelerated to 145% – and counting – is yet another thunderous trademark pigeon smashing the chessboard gambit.
It won’t work. Trump claimed that China would… Continue reading
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Apr 03 2025 
How Trump’s Tariff Tizzy is Burning Down the House
Global Majority, rejoice! And step on the high-speed rail de-dollarization train.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Circus ringmaster Trump’s Tariff Tizzy (TTT), christened by himself as “Liberation Day”, is being largely interpreted around the world – Global North and Global South alike – as Slaughterhouse Day.
This de facto uncontrolled economic demolition gambit starts with… Continue reading
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Mar 31 2025 
Mark Dankof: the March to War with Iran
Mark Dankof on RBN Live for March 28th, 2025: The American Buildup on Diego Garcia and the March to War with Iran
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Topic: The Orange Man and Temple Mount Pete Hegseth ready for war with Iran for Greater Israel. Mark will also discuss his invitation to Tehran to join some American giants of note in… Continue reading
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Mar 27 2025 
Yemeni Missiles and the Anglo-Zionists
Geopolitical analyst and journalist Pepe Escobar joins the program from inside the country currently leading the way in standing up for human rights and peace worldwide: Yemen.
In this must-watch stream, we discuss the truth about how the people of this war-torn country have been able to remain steadfast in their support of Gaza with ongoing… Continue reading
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Mar 21 2025 
Trump wants A Deal — not Peace
It’s called opportunism
with gratitude to Julian Macfarlane at News Forensics.
The Western Media seem to think that Trump gave Putin his marching orders —just because Putin is articulate, civil and polite —if, as they say in Russian – “nuanced’.
There are at least 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers, mercenaries, and NATO personnel trapped in Kursk. Trump asked Putin to… Continue reading
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Mar 19 2025 
A Hard Rain’s a-gonna Fall – from the West down to the East
In this incandescent juncture, what matters is off the record.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Let’s start with that phone call. The is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage… Continue reading
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Mar 14 2025 
Putin peels off the Masks of the Ceasefire Kabuki
Putin will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The “ceasefire” announced with trademark bombast by Team Trump 2.0 should be seen as a tawdry kabuki inside a cheap matryoshka.
As we peel off the successive masks,… Continue reading
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Mar 09 2025 
Imperial Games
The big questions remaining for every single human being in the Global Majority, watching these Imperial Games are: Are we, too, playing along in these games? .. What are the values we hold sacred?
By Nora Hoppe at Al Mayadeen.
“You don’t have the cards right now!”, Wheeler-Dealer Trump informed the no longer useful, wretched pawn… Continue reading
