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Oct 22 2025 
All the World is a Stage across the Ancient Silk Road
A time travel across History – the Ancient Silk Roads as well as Xinjiang may well be the ultimate crossroads of civilizations. Along Central Asia, they are the (beating) heart of the Heartland…
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
ON THE SOUTHERN SILK ROAD – Silk is the stuff of legend. Literally. At first manufactured… Continue reading -
Oct 14 2025 
Art, Trade and State power at the Heart of the Silk Road
Part II of the celestial Travelogue through the western regions of China.
By Silk Road pilgrim Pepe Escobar on the Strategic Culture Foundation.
DUNHUANG – Across History, the Silk Road – actually a network of roads – is the supreme Highway Star: the most important connectivity corridor ever, rolling across Ancient Eurasia, linking what Chinese scholars consensually… Continue reading
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Oct 08 2025 
Xiyouji: My Journey to the West
A celestial Travelogue through the western regions of China.
By Silk Road pilgrim Pepe Escobar on Sputnik.
ON THE ROAD IN XINJIANG – Xuanzang, the itinerant Buddhist monk, has got to be one of the most extraordinary figures in History. He certainly is regarded as such in China.
In the early Tang dynasty in the 7th century, Xuanzang… Continue reading -
Aug 05 2025 
Tripoli: The Scent of History
A poignant travelogue and historical review of this former pearl port city of the Eastern Mediterranean
Laith Marouf and Hadi Hotait travel to Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest city, to discover its hidden and neglected treasures, discuss its brilliant past, and analyze threats by the USA to hand it over to the Wahhabi Death-Squads governing Syria today,… Continue reading
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Jun 22 2025 
The Persian-American Murder-Suicide in the Qur’an
A living Revelation anticipates the astonishing tableau which confronts us today: the violent and calamitous end to the Old Order heralded by the aggression of the Anglo-Zionists on Iran.
Divine Revelation, as Sheikh Imran Hosein and serious scholars note, is neither static nor dead. The same verses in subsequent generations, according to need of the flock,… Continue reading
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Apr 16 2025 
Human Progress
“How weary am I of devils and brutes, a true human is what I long for.”
By Nora Hoppe at Al Mayadeen.
The fact that our planet in this day and age is home to a genocide – visible to all human beings on personal devices throughout the world – an ongoing abomination unhindered by any international… Continue reading
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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
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Jun 11 2024 
Sense and Senselessness — In a Waste Land…
If one were a patient awakening in the West from a 30-year coma… one would not be able to find one’s bearings; one would not only fail to recognise the world, but also to see any sense in it.
By Nora Hoppe at Al Mayadeen.
It is neither an easy nor satisfying task to endeavour to understand… Continue reading
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Apr 07 2024 
Of Vicious Vicky, Backstreet Blinkie, & Gropers of the Apocalypse
Are You Suffering Intellectual Bulimia?
with gratitude to FiveGunsWest and penned by Bones!
“I carry a Sicilian Peace Stick in my car. Louisville Slugger, 35 inch, 33 ounce.”
“Uncle Nunzio showed me when I was a young lad how to apply Peace to transgressors.” – Larch445
Bulimia nervosa, also known as simply bulimia, is an eating disorder characterized by… Continue reading -
Mar 21 2024 
Dien Bien Phools
We Won’t Get Dien Bien Phooled Again! Once the French have defeated Russia, they will attack all of Europe. France cannot be allowed to win!
with gratitude to FiveGunsWest and penned by Bones!
Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys
I must have every book about Dien Bien Phu there is. I also have the French Communist Party books on this… Continue reading
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Feb 21 2024 
Axis of Asymmetry In Da House!
“The Houthis down a $30 million MQ-9 Reaper with a 10k missile.
Axis of Asymmetry in da house.” — Pepe Escobarwith thanks from FiveGunsWest and penned by Bones!
“I had to go to the black soil of Novorossiya to watch where the rules-based international order came to die,” — @RealPepeEscobar told the #NewRulesPodcast
“So the cowardly genocidals say… Continue reading -
Feb 15 2024 
Chains We Can Believe In
Joe Biden is not mentally competent to stand trial but he is competent to be president
with thanks from FiveGunsWest and penned by Bones!
Bibi Biden and Blinken: That Old Black Magic
“If we don’t stop Israel over there, we’ll have to stop them over here.” – General Cosplay Killmore
LOL. And why not? It makes as much if… Continue reading
