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Nov 22 2025 
The 28-point Theater of the Absurd
“Whatever was the real story behind the 28 pointer … the messy, even infantile “plan” posing as Hegemon in Control and mocking the BRICS/SCO is completely unworkable.”
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The Circus Ringmaster’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine may be seen as a pet seal splashing around in a pond to amuse… Continue reading
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Nov 18 2025 
The Proximate Aspect with Pepe Escobar
Brazilian writer and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar’s interview on Al Mayadeen’s The Proximate Aspect dives straight into the shifting fault lines of global power, from the rise of BRICS to China’s quiet technological resilience in the face of Western tech sanctions and Russia’s recalibrated military strategy.
In a wide-ranging interview, Escobar tackles the future of… Continue reading
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Nov 12 2025 
It took 40 years to replace Al Qaeda with Al Qaeda
“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s Founding Fathers.” — President Reagan meeting with Freedom Fighters from Afghanistan (Mujahedin), Oval Office, 1985.
Nima AlKhorshid interviews our roving eye nomad on the central Asian Stans, Al Qaeda ‘R US, and other travails of stark-naked Anglo-Zionists.
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Nov 07 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Trump in deep trouble as Putin drops missile BOMBSHELL, Venezuela War ERUPTS
Pepe Escobar interviews with Danny BOMBSHELL Haiphong.
Trump is going nuclear on Russia, but Putin has just called his bluff after a humiliating US defeat to China. Geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar joins to break down the bombshell victories achieved by Russia and China over Trump’s nuclear escalations, as well as the next phase… Continue reading
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Oct 31 2025
Pepe Escobar: Trump, Xi and that G-2 in South Korea
China is not worried; the tech expectation is that they won’t need anything from the US in the spectrum of 2 to 3 years.
So the latest incarnation of the much-hyped G-2 came and went. It did feel like a switch from Trump Tariff Temper Tantrum to Temporary Truce.
Naturally there has been an avalanche of spin… Continue reading
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Oct 30 2025
Pepe Escobar: How ASEAN Keeps Its Centrality Between China & US
Sputnik
ASEAN is quite a delicate geopolitical entity: gracious, polite and consensual but at the same time, always privileging its “centrality”. The collective 11 Southeast Asians (East Timor is the new member) are very serious global players – with a GDP of $3.8 trillion, and constantly rising.
On a personal level, when I decided to move from… Continue reading
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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 11 2025 
On the Silk Road to Isfahan
Judge Nap catches our roving eye nomad—pilgrim between flights to review the incendiary moment
💠 Rock’n Roll Geopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺RYABKOV UNPLUGGED“We have a certain building of relations, which has cracked, which is collapsing – the Americans are to blame for this. Now the cracks have reached the foundation. I think it’s easier to destroy than to build.… 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 -
Sep 21 2025 
The Choice is Stark – Global Governance or Barbarism
“Peaches and plums don’t speak, but they are so attractive that a path is formed below the trees.”
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
There is something ineffably eternal about the “drum beating and bell chiming from sundown to daybreak” when it comes to the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower standing in the north end of ancient… Continue reading -
Sep 09 2025 
Mohammad Marandi & Pepe Escobar: Iran Warns: Ready to CRUSH Any Israeli Strike- BRICS Takes on Trump
Prof. Marandi weighs in on Qatar.
Pepe changes the subject as he does not want to talk about something that is suicide inducing.
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Sep 09 2025 
From Tianjin and Beijing to Vladivostok, the Eurasia High-Speed Train Keeps-a-Rollin’
History will register that the first week of September 2025 propelled the advent of the Eurasia Century to a whole new level.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
That was the expectation ahead of three crucial intertwined dates: the SCO annual summit in Tianjin; the Victory Day parade in Beijing; and the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
Yet expectations… Continue reading
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Sep 04 2025 
From Zhongnanhai to Vladivostok
… via the DF-5C express and armored deluxe trains. Judge Nap tries to contain the excitement of our roving eye nomad in encapsulating one of the most transformational weeks of our lives.
