-
Apr 01 2025 
A Travelogue of Felix Arabia: Unconquerable Yemen
Part II on my mesmerizing journey in Yemen… Ansarallah won’t back down, staring down the Empire in the Red Sea.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
SANA’A, Yemen – No wonder the Roman Empire called it Arabia Felix.
It’s 3 pm in Al-Sabeen square in the Haddah neighborhood of Sana’a on Friday, March 28, Al Quds Day,… Continue reading
-
Mar 31 2025 
A Travelogue of Felix Arabia: from Sana’a to Saada — Yemen during Wartime
Part I on my mesmerizing journey in Yemen…
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
SAADA, northwest Yemen – It’s 2 pm on Wednesday, March 26, and I am standing in a deserted boulevard in Saada during Ramadan, in silence, surrounded by mountains, and watching a road sign telling me the Saudi border is only a two-hour drive away.
We… Continue reading
-
Feb 20 2025 
In the Heart of Donbass: A Spiritual Travelogue
Please see earlier segments of this Saga of Love: [Transcending Avdeevka] [A Travelogue] [Trilogy of Hope]
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
AVDEYEVKA – It’s a snowy noon in Avdeyevka this past Saturday – exactly one year and two days after the liberation of the now completely destroyed city, and I am talking to two survivors of the… Continue reading
-
Dec 10 2024 
Navigating the Fog
An Interview with Professor Sergey A. Karaganov
By Nora Hoppe and Tariq Marzbaan at Al Mayadeen.
As we transition from a dying world to a new one in its turbulent birth pangs – we find ourselves in a foggy interregnum that urgently needs more clarity for us to move on…
We thus turn once again to political scientist… Continue reading -
Aug 28 2024 
Cultura e Resistenza: “Indépendance Cha Cha” – Le Grand Kallé: the first anthem of the Pan-African anti-colonial movements
Reflections by Nora Hoppe
Today, a spirit of freedom – inspired by visions of a burgeoning multipolar world – is motivating a growing number of African nations to sever all ties with longstanding colonialist marauders. Such a spirit was always reflected in the arts, especially in music – all over the world… But, we ask, where… Continue reading
-
Aug 26 2024 
Era of Delusion gave way to Age of Heroism
Excerpt of President Bashar al-Assad’s speech to the People’s Assembly, Damascus, Syria, 25.08.2024.
🇸🇾 Syria President Assad: “The resistance in Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Yemen are a role model, an example that we follow in the path of liberation, the path of dignity, honor and successful independence. pic.twitter.com/ziYQ0fZwqQ
— COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) August 25, 2024🇸🇾 Syria President… Continue reading
-
Jun 01 2024 
The Afghans Who Came in from the Cold
The whole Russia-Taliban love affair involves a humongous package – encompassing oil, gas, minerals and loads of rail connectivity.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Russia, SCO, BRICS: The normalization of Afghanistan
This past Sunday in Doha, I had a meeting with three high-level representatives of the Taliban Political Office in Qatar, including a founding member… Continue reading -
May 26 2024 
Hell on Earth… And the Time of Monsters: Can a New World Be Born?
The big and NAKED question that will go down in the history books is: Why was the Rest of the World unable to stop the Gaza Genocide?
By Nora Hoppe at Al Mayadeen.
As I write, part of Rafah is being engulfed in an infernal blaze… If Hieronymous Bosch were alive and at work today, how would… Continue reading -
May 11 2024 
Russia’s Manifest Destiny: Freeing Mankind of Hegemony
Russia is “a civilisation of civilisations: respecting others, learning from the experiences of all nations… a military-political guardian safeguarding the freedom of other nations to choose their own path.”
Tariq Marzbaan and Nora Hoppe interview Professor Karaganov.
Geopolitical paradigm shifts and coping with psychopaths: An Interview with Professor Sergey A. Karaganov
Tariq Marzbaan and Nora Hoppe interview Professor… Continue reading
-
Apr 09 2024 
Our Uncles Lavrov and Wang Yi palaver in Beijing
Just a couple of adults in a room in Beijing..
with appreciation to Dr. Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
Today Lavrov finished two days of intensive talks with the Russian delegation’s counterparts in Beijing, intensive because there’s so much to cover in such a short time. Further work will be done by Deputy Ministers between now and… Continue reading
-
Mar 14 2024 
Vladimir Putin on Russia’s Path Ahead
On the Cusp of Reelection and SMO Victory, Putin’s Interview with Rossiya Segodnya’s General Director Dmitry Kiselev
with thanks to Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
With snippets all over Russian media as well as the 1:45 long video, the job fell to Dmitry Kiselev, the director general of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik’s parent media group. We get to… Continue reading
-
Mar 06 2024 
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
-
Jan 27 2024 
Five Variables Defining Our Future
What Putin, Xi and Raisi have been explaining to the Global South, explicitly or in quite subtle ways, is that we are right in the crux of a civilizational war.
by Pepe Escobar at Sputnik
In the late 1930s, with WWII in motion, and only months before his assassination, Leon Trotsky already had a vision of what… Continue reading
