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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 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 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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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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Nov 08 2024 
Putin Outlines The ‘Moment of Truth’
President Putin’s plenary session performance (address + Q&A) at the annual Valdai Club meeting in Sochi felt like a high-speed train on cruise control.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
Totally cool, calm, comfortable, in full command of a Himalaya of facts, no political leader anywhere – recent past and present – would even come close to delivering… Continue reading
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Oct 31 2024 
The Roadblocks Ahead for the Sovereign Harmonious Multi-Nodal World
The Kazan lab has laid out several geoeconomic road maps, and is seriously taking the inevitable roadblocks into account.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
We will need weeks, months, years to fully grasp the enormity of what took place in Kazan during the annual BRICS summit under the Russian presidency.
For the moment let’s cherish arguably… Continue reading
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Oct 28 2024 
BRICS Make History – Can They Keep the Momentum?
The Kazan Declaration is no less than a detailed diplomatic manifesto to propose real reform, moving in practice towards in-depth institutional changes and to reject Hegemony, in particular the post-WW2 Anglo-American levers of global control.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
The not so simple twists of fate always allow certain cities to make their mark in History… Continue reading -
Oct 21 2024 
BRICS Offers Hope in a Time of War
A date with Destiny .. “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a New Start or more Tyranny?” “A new start… if you can keep it.”
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
This is it. A date with destiny. All set for the most crucial geopolitical/geoeconomic gathering of the year and arguably the decade: the BRICS Summit under the… Continue reading -
Oct 11 2024 
Could Palestine be the catalyst for an Islamic Renaissance?
It’s impossible to count on corrupt Arab regimes – the weak link – to stop the Gaza genocide. Focus on the popular resistance organizations. Forget about the compradore regimes.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
ISTANBUL – Of all the countless analyses across the lands of Islam about the profound significance of fateful Al-Toofan (Al-Aqsa Flood)… Continue reading
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Sep 29 2024 
Watching the China river flow
Like a river undisturbed while traversing a rocky wilderness, China silently flows away on its path to peaceful primacy.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Leading website Guancha has published the transcript of a first-class lecture at Renmin University on China-U.S. relations by Martin Jacques, author of When China Rules the World. Jacques is one of the very few… Continue reading
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Sep 26 2024 
China’s Global Security Initiative (GSI)
… and What it Means for the World. “No Global South without China!” A review of the 11th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, hosted by the People’s Liberation Army. 🔻 Heartland Economic blocs versus Occidental Military blocs.
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Sep 23 2024 
Will a BRICS Bretton Woods Take Place in Kazan?
Is BRICS ready to become an actor in Kazan next month, and what should be on the table in terms of the strategy to establish an alternative payment system?
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
With less than a month before the crucial BRICS annual summit in Kazan under the Russian presidency, serious informed discussions are raging in… Continue reading -
Sep 17 2024 
The Russian Digital Ruble & BRICS Bridge
Leaving the dollar-based system for good: What are the digital ruble and BRICS Bridge?
By July 1, 2025, the largest Russian banks will have to provide their clients with the ability to conduct transactions in digital rubles, according to the Russian Central Bank. Pilot testing of the digital currency is underway with 12 banks participating in… Continue reading
