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Jul 24 2023 
BRICS problems, BRI solutions
While the five original BRICS states have their geopolitical differences, they are finding enormous common ground on the geoeconomic front as trade volumes surge and trade routes multiply.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
As the BRICS approach the most important summit in their history on August 22-24 in Johannesburg, South Africa, some fundamentals… Continue reading
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Jul 23 2023 
Collapse of Antiquity: Review of Michael Hudson’s last book by Pepe Escobar
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230515/pepe-escobar-us-empire-of-debt-headed-for-collapse-1110374196.html
Pepe Escobar: US Empire of Debt Headed for Collapse
Prof. Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point” is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and geoeconomic order is dying and the new one is being born at… Continue reading
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Jul 21 2023 
Neocons Want War With China
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnikglobe.com
It was a photo op for the ages: a visibly well-disposed President Xi Jinping receiving centenarian “old friend of China” Henry Kissinger in Beijing.
Mirroring meticulous Chinese attention to protocol, they met at Villa 5 of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse – exactly where Kissinger first met in person with… Continue reading
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Jul 18 2023
In Sicily, Top of the Mountain, Watching the New Barbarians
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
It’s another stunning sunset in the western edge of the Sicilian coast, and I’m right in front of the Real Duomo in Erice, the pluri-millenary “Mount”, sung by Virgil in the Aeneid as “close to the stars”, and founded by the mythical homonymous son of Venus and… Continue reading
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Jul 07 2023
Finance, power, integration: The SCO welcomes a new ‘Global Globe’
Discussions at the recent SCO Summit in New Delhi now point to the inevitable: The merging of new multipolar organizations and their collective reorganization of global finance.
By Pepe Escobar, and first posted at The Cradle
The 23rd summit of the heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), held virtually in New Delhi, represented History… Continue reading
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Jul 01 2023
A Matryoshka of Psyops: And Why General Armageddon Is Not Going Anywhere
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
The main problem faced by Russia is not the Hegemon and NATO: it’s domestic, Pepe Escobar writes.
The secret of a perfect psyop is that no one really understands it.
A perfect psyop accomplishes two tasks: it renders the enemy dazed and confused while achieving a set of very… Continue reading
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Jun 26 2023
When the lightning of History strikes, better cut to the chase in our first draft
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
After the extraordinary events in Russia during The Longest Day, President Putin wins on all counts.
Among other feats, he has made an absolute, inter-galactic ass of the whole collective West MSM – all over again.
He rallied virtually every Russian to end the Special Military Operation (SMO) –… Continue reading
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Jun 23 2023 
The Greater Eurasia project: Building bridges and breaking barriers
If you’re counting on Asia’s many new power centers to compete and clash – don’t. The Greater Eurasia Partnership is set to integrate them all – from the SCO, EAEU, and BRICS, to emerging new currencies – in order to replace the ‘rules-based order.’
From Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
On July 4, at… Continue reading
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Jun 16 2023
Russia’s New Roadmap for Multipolar World
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputik
The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is not only the premier platform for discussing everything that matters in business and geoeconomics concerning Russia and the wider Eurasia.
It’s a privileged space where trends of the past, present and future are explored in detail: a microcosm of multipolarity at work.
The… Continue reading
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Jun 15 2023
Putin and What Really Matters in the Chessboard
It’s fascinating to see how Russian war correspondents are now playing a role similar to the former political commissars in the USSR.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
President Putin’s meeting with a group of Russian war correspondents and Telegram bloggers – including Filatov, Poddubny, Pegov from War Gonzo, Podolyaka, Gazdiev from RT – was an… Continue reading
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Jun 13 2023 
How the BRI train took the road to Shangri-La
In less than a decade, China’s BRI has fundamentally transformed global geopolitics. It is already far too late for the west to compete.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at TheCradle
It is important to recognize that the US/NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is simultaneously a war designed to interrupt the progress of China’s Belt… Continue reading
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Jun 12 2023
Pepe Escobar: US Attempts ’Divide and Conquer’ Strategy Against BRICS
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnikglobe.com
Note for context: This column is directly linked to: The Hegemon Will Go Full Hybrid War Against BRICS+
The content that Pepe speaks to, is the secret meeting that was held behind the public Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapour that I commented on: Shangri-La Dialogue 2023: The heat was onSomething… Continue reading
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Jun 11 2023 
The Hegemon Will Go Full Hybrid War Against BRICS+
The Hybrid War 2.0 against the Global South has not even started. Swing states, you have all been warned.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
U.S. Think Tank Land hacks are not exactly familiar with Montaigne: “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
Hubris leads these… Continue reading
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Jun 02 2023
The Sultan 2.0 will heavily tilt east
It’s not that Erdogan has a scheme to head east at the west’s expense. It’s just that the world’s grandest infrastructure, development, and geopolitical projects are all in the east today.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
The collective west was dying to bury him – yet another strategic mistake that did not take… Continue reading
