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Jan 25 2024 
Yemeni ‘Asabiyyah Reshapes Geopolitics
To invoke Chinese wisdom, picture a single rock changing the course of a stream, which then changes the course of a mighty river.
by Pepe Escobar at The Cradle
“When there is a general change of conditions,
It is as if the entire creation had changed
and the whole world been altered,
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Jan 25 2024
The Ukraine Charade, Revisited
Zhuangzi: “You can’t talk about the ocean to a frog living in a well, you can’t describe ice to a summer midge, and you can’t reason with an ignoramus.”
by Pepe Escobar at ZeroHedge
Selected players scattered around the Beltway silos of power, diligently working as messengers for the people who really run the show in the… Continue reading
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Jan 19 2024 
Emmanuel Todd: How the West Was Defeated
Pepe draws on a “hand grenade of a book” published by French historian and political analyst, Professor Emmanuel Todd. Todd uses verified facts to “blow up the Russophobia edifice erected” by the West over the Ukraine conflict; he lays bare “Western society’s false consciousness,” while explaining reality “in a way that totally escapes the brainwashed… Continue reading
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Jan 13 2024 
2024: the Year of the Dragon
It’s possible to advance that the Year of the Dragon will be a year where Sovereignty reigns. China, Russia and Iran will take the fight towards a more equal and just system to the next level…
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
As we enter incandescent 2024, four major trends will define the progress… Continue reading
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Dec 29 2023 
How Yemen changed everything
In a single move, Yemen’s Ansarallah has checkmated the west and its rules-based order.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle.
Whether invented in northern India, eastern China or Central Asia – from Persia to Turkestan – chess is an Asian game. In chess, there always comes a time when a simple pawn is able… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2023 
BRICS and the Resistance Axis Converge
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
MOSCOW – Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a notable pit stop in the UAE and Saudi Arabia to meet, respectively, Emirati President Mohammad bin Zayed (MbZ) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) before flying back to Moscow to meet Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
The… Continue reading
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Dec 01 2023 
Pepe Escobar: US Needs Gaza War to Destabilize BRICS, Greater Eurasia
Published at https://sputnikglobe.com/20231201/pepe-escobar-us-needs-gaza-war-to-destabilize-brics-greater-eurasia–1115329039.html and includes the interview with the new rules podcast and Dimitri Simes Jr.
In this week’s episode of the New Rules podcast, host Dimitri Simes Jr. speaks with veteran geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar about why the Global American Empire needs war in Gaza to maintain its geopolitical hegemony.
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Nov 29 2023 
‘The Horror! The Horror!’, Revisited in Palestine
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture Foundation.
The jungle is here – creeping inside all of us.
“Mistah Kurtz – he dead.”
Joseph Conrad, Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad once said that before he had been to the Congo he was a simple animal. It was in one of those lands partially mapped out by the cruelty… Continue reading
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Nov 24 2023
The Eviction Notice Comes in Four Languages
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
Orthodox Christianity, moderate Islam and several strands of Taoism/Confucianism may become the three main civilizations of a cleansed Mankind.
The Eviction Notice is being written. And it will come in four languages. Russian. Farsi. Mandarin. And last but not least, English.
A much-cherished pleasure of professional writing is to always… Continue reading
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Nov 23 2023
Gaza: a pause before the storm
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
While the world cries “Israeli genocide,” the Biden White House is gushing over the upcoming Gaza truce it helped broker, as though it’s actually “on the verge” of its “biggest diplomatic victory.”
Behind the self-congratulatory narratives, the US administration is not remotely “wary about Netanyahu’s endgame,” it fully endorses it -… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2023
Will Russia-China Strategic Patience Extinguish the Fire in West Asia?
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnik
Once upon a time, by the Don river, in the southern steppes of what today is still known as “Ukraine”, the Great King of Persia, the mighty Darius, leading the most powerful army ever assembled on earth, received a puzzling message from a foe he was pursuing: the nomad… Continue reading
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Nov 20 2023 
How the US Global Order is Challenged – With Pepe Escobar
How the US Global Order is Challenged – With Pepe Escobar
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Nov 15 2023
Why the US needs this war in Gaza
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
Washington needs to win its Gazan war against Iran because it failed to win its Ukrainian war against Russia.
The Global South was expecting the Dawn of a New Arabian Reality.
After all, the Arab street – even while repressed in their home nations – has pulsed with protests expressing… Continue reading
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Nov 13 2023
Pepe Escobar on DDGeopolitics
The discussion is broad and takes into account pipelanistan, the current wars and West Asia.
