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Oct 18 2023 
Russia’s neutrality ballet on Israel-Palestine
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
While some Russian heavyweights push to recast Israel as a hostile state, the Kremlin is unlikely to budge. Instead, Moscow will stay ‘neutral’ to maximize its West Asian influence, all while edging closer to the Arab and Muslim worlds.
Is it possible that the philo-Semitic Russian President Vladimir Putin… Continue reading
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Oct 16 2023
Slouching Towards the Final Solution
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
The war against Russia in Ukraine and the Israeli “war on terror” in Gaza are just parallel fronts of a single, horrifyingly evolving, global war.
You have stolen the orchards of my ancestors
And the land that I cultivated
And you left nothing for us
Except for these rocks…
If I become hungry
The… Continue reading -
Sep 23 2023 
Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar
BRICS or NATO? G20 or G77? Summits debate changing world order
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 17th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai.
MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson.
RADHIKA DESAI: And today we are joined once again by the incomparable Pepe Escobar.… Continue reading
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Sep 20 2023 
The Ukrainian Morale in the Battlefield: A Snapshot
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
It’s now firmly established that the Ukrainian counter-offensive turned out to be the feeder of a bloody meat grinder of astonishing proportions.
Of every 100 people who joined Ukrainian units last Fall, months before the counter-offensive, only 10 to 20 remain. The rest are dead, wounded or incapacitated.… Continue reading
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Aug 31 2023
Does BRICS Need Its Own Currency?
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnik
The new era opened with the strategic tour de force inbuilt in the creation of BRICS 11 involves the make-or-break issue of setting up a new international economic/financial strategy.
Right at the heart of fervent discussions are the merits of designing a new BRICS currency.
Brazilian economist Paulo Nogueira Batista… Continue reading
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Aug 30 2023
NATOstan Robots Versus the Heavenly Horses of Multipolarity
The entire West is waiting at the room at the station with black curtains – and no trains.
From Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
We will all need plenty of time and introspection to analyze the full range of game-changing vectors unleashed by the unveiling of BRICS 11 last week in South Africa.
Yet time… Continue reading
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Aug 26 2023 
‘Welcome to the BRICS 11’
‘No mountains can stop the surging flow of a mighty river.’ With the addition of six new members that add geostrategic clout and geographic depth to the once sputtering BRICS, the multilateral institution is now gathering the momentum needed to reset international relations.
By Pepe Escobar and posted at the Cradle
In the end, History was made.… Continue reading
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Aug 22 2023 
BRICS: the China–India factor
By Pepe Escobar: This is BRILLIANT. Strategic Culture has been heavily censored again. Their domain has been canceled. I’ve sent them this first BRICS column via a crucial helping hand, and the column is now out on Telegraph. No pasaran.
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Aug 19 2023
Central Asia is the prime battlefield in the New Great Game
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
Samarkand, Uzbekistan – The historical Heartland – or Central Eurasia – already is, and will continue to be, the prime battlefield in the New Great Game, fought between the United States and the China-Russia strategic partnership.
The original Great Game pitted the British and Russian empires in the… Continue reading
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Aug 16 2023
From Bukhara to BRICS, Searching for Light in the Darkness of Insanity
From Pepe Escobar and first posted at StrategicCulture.
Bukhara The Noble, the “Dome of Islam”, with a history stretching back 2.500 years, bears too many marvels to mention: from the two-millennia-old Ark, a fortress around which the city developed, to the 48-meter high Kalon minaret, built in 1127, which so impressed Genghis Khan that he… Continue reading
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Aug 04 2023 
Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson & Pepe Escobar: War hawks’ drive to expand NATO into Asia to contain China
Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar to discuss how the war hawks’ drive to expand NATO into Asia to contain China may destroy the Western military alliance.
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RADHIKA DESAI: Hello everyone and welcome to the [15th] Geopolitical Economy Hour, a program that discusses the political and geopolitical economy… Continue reading -
Aug 02 2023
Down The Rabbit Hole With Pepe Escobar
Brazil – Lula government – complex
Coup in Niger – new generation of young Africans got the message – colonization must be over – rejection of the 2nd wave of neo-colonialism. The scope is Huuuuuge!
Many deep analytical comments
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Aug 02 2023
Syria: a tale of plunder and resurrection
While the wholesale theft of Syria’s natural resources continues under the watch of illegal US troops, the Russian project of resurrecting ISIS-destroyed Palmyra stands as a stark reminder that ruins can rise again – if Syria’s friends help pave the way.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
The war on Syria has vanished from… Continue reading
