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Nov 30 2022 
The Global South: new payment system
The Global South births a new game-changing payment system
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The CradleThe Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) is speeding up its design of a common payment system, which has been closely discussed for nearly a year with the Chinese under the stewardship of Sergei Glazyev, the EAEU’s minister in charge of… Continue reading
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Nov 29 2022 
US paralyzed by Islamic Republic of Iran’s strategic swing
By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission, and first posted at PressTV
Iran’s parliament has just approved the accession of the Islamic Republic to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), previously enshrined at the Samarkand summit last September, marking the culmination of a process that lasted no less than 15 years.
Iran has already applied to become… Continue reading
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Nov 27 2022 
Operation Claw-Sword:
Erdogan’s big new game in Syria
Wily Sultan is caught between his electorate, which favors a Syria invasion, and his extremely nuanced relations with RussiaBy Pepe Escobar and first posted at Asia Times
There’s another Special Military Operation on the market. No, it’s not Russia “denazifying” and “demilitarizing” Ukraine – and, therefore, it’s no wonder that… Continue reading
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Electric War
By Pepe Escobar, and always with his permission. First posted at Strategic Culture
Current Russian tactics are the absolute opposite of the military theory of concentrated force developed by Napoleon, Pepe Escobar writes.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your… Continue reading -
Pepe Escobar & Danny Haipong
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Goodbye G20, hello BRICS+
By Pepe Escobar with permission and first posted at the Cradle.
The redeeming quality of a tense G20 held in Bali – otherwise managed by laudable Indonesian graciousness – was to sharply define which way the geopolitical winds are blowing.
That was encapsulated in the Summit’s two highlights: the much anticipated China-US presidential meeting – representing the… Continue reading
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The G20’s Balinese dance and Biden’s calming words
By Pepe Escobar, posted with permission and first posted at Asia Times
Balinese culture, a perpetual exercise in sophisticated subtlety, makes no distinction between the secular and the supernatural – sekala and niskala.
Sekala is what our senses may discern. As in the ritualized gestures of world leaders – real and minor – at a highly polarized… Continue reading
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Nov 15 2022 
Russia, India, China, Iran: the Quad that really matters
By Pepe Escobar, posted with permission and first posted at PressTV.ir
Southeast Asia is right at the center of international relations for a whole week viz a viz three consecutive summits: Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Phnom Penh, the Group of Twenty (G20) summit in Bali, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)… Continue reading
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Nov 05 2022
Berlin Goes to Beijing: The Real Deal
The Scholz caravan went to Beijing to lay down the preparatory steps for working out a peace deal with Russia, with China as privileged messenger.
By Pepe Escobar, posted with permission and first posted at Strategic Culture
With his inimitable flair for economic analysis steeped in historical depth, Professor Michael Hudson’s latest essay, originally written for a… Continue reading
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No pain, no grain: Putin’s Black Sea comeback
By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and first posted at The Cradle
So, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan picks up the phone and calls his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin: let’s talk about the “grain deal.” Putin, cool, calm and collected, explains the facts to the Sultan:
First, the reason why Russia withdrew from the… Continue reading
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Oct 29 2022 
Putin in fact did nail where we are: on the edge of a Revolution.
By Pepe Escobar, posted with permission and first posted at Strategic Culture
Putin in fact did nail where we are: on the edge of a Revolution.
In an all-encompassing address to the plenary session of the 19th annual meeting of the Valdai Club, President Putin delivered no less than a devastating, multi-layered critique of unipolarity.From Shakespeare to… Continue reading
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Oct 24 2022 
The ‘War of Terror’ may be about to hit Europe
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at PressTV
Never underestimate a wounded and decaying Empire collapsing in real time.
Imperial functionaries, even in a “diplomatic” capacity, continue to brazenly declare that their exceptionalist control over the world is mandatory.
If that’s not the case, competitors may emerge and steal the limelight – monopolized by US oligarchies. That, of… Continue reading
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Oct 13 2022
The Thin Red Line: NATO Can’t Afford to Lose Kabul and Kiev
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture.
Russia will not allow the Empire to control Ukraine, whatever it takes. That’s intrinsically linked to the future of the Greater Eurasia Partnership.
Let’s start with Pipelineistan. Nearly seven years ago, I showed how Syria was the ultimate Pipelineistan war.
Damascus had rejected the – American – plan for a… Continue reading
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Oct 10 2022
Terror on Crimea Bridge forces Russia to unleash Shock’n Awe
The western narrative of a ‘losing Russia’ has just been decimated by Moscow’s blitzkrieg against Ukraine and its foreign-backed terror operations
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
The terror attack on Krymskiy Most – the Crimea Bridge – was the proverbial straw that broke the Eurasian camel’s back.
Russian President Vladimir Putin neatly summarized it:… Continue reading
