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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 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
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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
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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 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 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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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
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Jan 28 2025 
Dancing to Trump’s Disco Inferno
The spectacle of Trump’s sound and fury … something veils the same old imperial mindset, now blasting out in the open as a weaponized three-ring circus.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
In the late 1970s Donald Trump, in his early thirties, cocky as ever and recently married to Ivana in 1977, could be seen on and off… Continue reading -
Dec 10 2024 
Lessons from Syria: Assad and Putin
Why do the Brutalists Lose?
by Marat Khairullin on Substack.
Syria is important. No matter how bitter it is to realize this. But there is such a maxim, “no matter how hard the failure is, if you have learned from it, then it is no longer a failure, but the next step up the mountain.” In other… Continue reading
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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
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Aug 27 2024 
EU to Telegram – We’re Coming to Get You
The Pavel Durov saga is a gift that will keep on giving for a long time to come. This is what hot information war is all about. So let’s attempt to connect several loose ends.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
A high-level Russian analyst makes the case that Durov’s arrest is connected with “anti-French protests in its… Continue reading
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Aug 27 2024 
The New Western Crusade: Extremism
“..the genuine terrorists have finally been named and an actual war against terrorism will now be mounted to rid the world of that extremism – the Manichean eschatology of the Good Versus Evil at the core of the Western Narrative.”
with appreciation to Dr. Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
Let’s take a cursory look at the narratives… Continue reading
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Jul 05 2024 
Anglo-American webs in SCS, Tibet & Europe
“The Philippines and Europeans are completely prostrate vassals to the United States .. Everybody and NATO and their dead dog is there to hassle and to upset China .. with drive-byes in ships and flyovers..”
US & EU Clash with Russia & China in Explosive Taiwan & Philippines Conflict | Jeff J. Brown
Jeff J. Brown is… Continue reading
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Apr 03 2024 
A Bridge too Far
Qui bono?
By Peter Koenig
3 April 2024The collapse, at about 1 AM on 26 March 2024, of the Francis Scott Key Bridge (FSB) in Baltimore, spanning the 2.4 km large Patapsco River, is a mystery as of this day. The river is used by massive cargo ships from Baltimore Harbor to reach the Chesapeake Bay and… Continue reading
