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  • Russia’s Renaissance: with the Youth

    The World Youth Festival in southern Russia was a stunning achievement — a Special Cultural Operation (SCO) encompassing the young Global South

    By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.

    It starts with the incomparable setting – the 2014 Olympics park of science and art, nested between snowy mountains and the Black Sea – all the way to the stars… Continue reading

  • The Global Majority Mixes in Multipolar Moscow

    Takeaway from Moscow: Normal-o-philes and Russophiles of the world, UNITE

    By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.

    These have been frantic multipolar days at the capital of the multipolar world. I had the honor to personally tell Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that virtually the whole Global South seemed to be represented in an auditorium of the… Continue reading

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  • Two Years after 22.2.22, the West is Paralyzed

    Two years after the start of the SMO, the West is totally paralyzed … The geopolitical moment: “You are irrelevant, and the Global South / Global Majority don’t care”

    by Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
    Exactly two years ago this Saturday, on February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin announced the launching – and described the objectives… Continue reading

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  • 2024: A SWIFT Alternative

    Amid talk of a replacement universal currency for the US Dollar, which appears long way off, there are two immediate steps to dedollarization underway, both advanced. The buying of energy in local currencies and barter, and SWIFT-like exchange mechanisms which this short video explores. 2024, under the Russian BRICS presidency, is turning into a year… Continue reading

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  • Russia’s public pivot to Palestine

    By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle

    As the west’s support for Israel’s Gaza war becomes indefensible, Moscow aligns itself with the global majority in defense of Palestine.

    The complex, nuanced issue of Russia’s geopolitical neutrality in the Israel-Palestine tragedy was finally clarified last week, in no uncertain terms.

    Exhibit A is Russian President Vladimir Putin addressing… Continue reading

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