Pepe Escobar

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

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 on

Something… Continue reading

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

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

The G7 is stupefied by the dynamic progress of the multipolar order embodied by the Russian-led INSTC and the Chinese-led BRI, with Iran’s strategic port of Chabahar now poised to play a transformative role.

By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle

Make no mistake about what the G7’s Hiroshima Communique is all about.

The setting: a city in… Continue reading

With G7 “leadership” mired in a sticky swamp of intellectual shallowness, predictably the only agenda in colonized Japan was more sanctions on Russia.

By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture

Let’s start with a graphic depiction of where the Global North and the Global South really stand.

1. Xian, former imperial capital, and key hub of… Continue reading

By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
Remember Putin: “We haven’t even started anything yet.”
“Whispers of an ‘evil power’ were heard in lines at dairy shops, in streetcars, stores, apartments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance trains, at stations large and small, in dachas, and on beaches. Needless to say, truly mature and cultured people did… Continue reading

UPDATE:  I’m putting this update on the top, as the fog is fast clearing around this complete issue.  There also is one aspect that I did not mention.

What I mentioned, is that I see political activity.  From Inessa S, translator and well-known for her Russian/English translations, we have this: https://t.me/c/1601261659/280479  

Please note this is… Continue reading

By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture

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Ed Note:  It is a run to the finish.  We cannot even post this up, before there are changes.  Yevgeny Prighozin has received his battle orders and this is what he says:

URGENT: PMC “Wagner” received a combat order, the group should be given everything necessary to continue… Continue reading