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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 15 2025 
Le Freak, c’est Chic
Insightful wide-ranging interview with geopolitician Pepe. The flopping of the Great Worm is dissected, as the Anglo-Saxon turns in vain every which way to escape the arrival of the Furies
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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
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Mar 05 2025 
The State of Play against the Double Helix Before the Ides
In this interview with Nima Alkhorshid, geopolitician Pepe Escobar provides a comprehensive wrap-up of our moment in time, after one full month of Agent Orange Chaos, from his oasis in the heart of ASEAN. Focus is on Russia-China and the evolving hybrid world war. This is the Calm before Storms
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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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Mar 02 2025 
Anglo-Zionists slap Trump
an alternative view around the world, especially among societies sensitive to issues of honor — another here (#52923)…
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
The biggest and most catastrophic mistake made by President Donald Trump, which led to his appearance as an ordinary man rather than the leader of what is currently considered the greatest… Continue reading
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Mar 02 2025 
From Donbass to South Lebanon, and All Across BRICS, It’s All About Resistance
… the absolutely key imperative remains the Forever Wars chapter in Ukraine – whose resolution (or not) will deeply affect geopolitics for the rest of the century
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
For those who keep track of the slings and arrows crossing the broader geopolitical chessboard non-stop, it’s an immensely powerful – and humbling – experience… Continue reading -
Feb 19 2025 
Let the New Great Game begin
This was never meant to be Yalta. Although Yalta 2.0 may eventually happen.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
This was never meant to be Yalta. Although Yalta 2.0 may eventually happen. On the Victory Day parade in Moscow next May 9, celebrating 80 years of the end of the Great Patriotic War and the… Continue reading
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Feb 16 2025 
Spring is in the air …
… in US-Russia ties as Trump’s revolution gains momentum
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
What emerges from the dramatic happenings of the past week is that the 3-year chronicle of US-Russia rivalry and the NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine was a crisis engineered with great deliberation by the Anglo-American nexus per a pernicious agenda… 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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Feb 08 2025 
In Valdai, confronting the “American problem” in West Asia
While Trump runs riot with his global land grab projects, multipolar visionaries in Valdai were mapping out the actual, tangible territorial routes that will define this century’s geopolitics and geoeconomics.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
MOSCOW – The 14th Middle East Conference of the Valdai Club in Moscow was hit by a geopolitical bunker buster bomb right… Continue reading
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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
