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May 23 2025 
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight a war and die.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight… Continue reading
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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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Apr 30 2025 
Going to Kashmir…just to find Alice in Wonderland
Welcome to “Ruler of the World” does Wonderland – to the sound of that hypnotic ‘Kashmir’ riff.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Two overarching taboos reign on the – now shattered – collective West:
Can’t define the Ukraine regime as Nazi.
Can’t condemn the psychopathological Israeli genocide in Gaza.The taboos happen to be inextricably linked… 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 23 2025 
The United Global South Front against the Tariff Paper Tiger
An excellent wide ranging discussion and follow-up on the Spirit of Shanghai article.
coalescence of new Primakov Triangle with all three at once under the Orange devil-storm
Yanquis about to be submerged in their own Century of Humiliation
BRICS regain focus with urgency, propelled by ASEAN and China
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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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Apr 01 2025 
Hold My Beer
The bomber is NOT always going to get through. Several of them are going to end up in flaming debris on Iranian mountainsides.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
Ok, right up front I want to make it clear that this post is simply an extended riff on the same theme I have been fixed upon in my… 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 29 2025 
Pepe Escobar : What I Am Seeing In Yemen!
Judge Napolitano interviews geopolitican and roving nomad Pepe Escobar from Sanaa, Yemen. Includes Pepe’s address to 1 million Yemenis – mind-boggling does not even begin to describe it.
Minor errata –
Hussein Al Houthi was the brother of the current ruler Abdul Malik Al Houthi. The former WAS the founding father of the Houthi movement.
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Mar 23 2025 
Scorch Marks in the Sand
“Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin”
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
Javelin, Stinger, M-777 howitzer, HIMARS, Excalibur, Switchblade, all manner of electronic warfare gizmos and counter-battery radars, Bradley IFVs, Stryker, Leopard, Challenger, Abrams, Patriot, JDAMs, HARMS, Storm Shadow, ATACMS … I’m sure I’m forgetting some.
Oh, yeah … remember in early 2022 when the unveiling of the Bayraktar strike drones… 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
