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Jun 25 2025 
The Ceasefire Kabuki
The myth of genocidal invincibility has been shattered forever .. that death cult in West Asia can indeed be mortally wounded .. TACO announced a one-sided ceasefire and fled .. There will be blood – over and over again.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
In the end, predictably, the Circus Ringmaster went TACO (“Trump… Continue reading
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May 31 2025 
The Jig is Up
America’s military humiliation: the Houthis exposed its waning power.
By Malcom Kyeyune at UnHerd.
When, in reaction to the war in Gaza, the Houthis of Yemen started imposing their blockade on the Red Sea, it was seen as a sure sign of waning American power: a global hegemon was allowing its control over a vital sea route… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2025 
China, Hong Kong and The Art of Blinking
Captain Chaos definitely does not have the cards – which as even South Pacific penguins know, are all made in China.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
SHANGHAI and HONG KONG – So, predictably, Captain Chaos did blink first. As much as he – and his sprawling media circus – could not possibly admit it.
It all… Continue reading
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Apr 13 2025 
Why China won’t call a ‘tariff-wielding barbarian’
Three wise monkeys are perfectly aware of what a pigeon posing as eagle is really up to.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The Toddler Temper Tantrum-style Trump Tariff Tizzy (TTT), now accelerated to 145% – and counting – is yet another thunderous trademark pigeon smashing the chessboard gambit.
It won’t work. Trump claimed that China would… Continue reading
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Apr 03 2025 
How Trump’s Tariff Tizzy is Burning Down the House
Global Majority, rejoice! And step on the high-speed rail de-dollarization train.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Circus ringmaster Trump’s Tariff Tizzy (TTT), christened by himself as “Liberation Day”, is being largely interpreted around the world – Global North and Global South alike – as Slaughterhouse Day.
This de facto uncontrolled economic demolition gambit starts with… Continue reading
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Mar 19 2025 
A Hard Rain’s a-gonna Fall – from the West down to the East
In this incandescent juncture, what matters is off the record.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Let’s start with that phone call. The is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage… Continue reading
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Feb 19 2025 
Let the New Great Game begin
This was never meant to be Yalta. Although Yalta 2.0 may eventually happen.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
This was never meant to be Yalta. Although Yalta 2.0 may eventually happen. On the Victory Day parade in Moscow next May 9, celebrating 80 years of the end of the Great Patriotic War and the… Continue reading
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Feb 16 2025 
Spring is in the air …
… in US-Russia ties as Trump’s revolution gains momentum
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
What emerges from the dramatic happenings of the past week is that the 3-year chronicle of US-Russia rivalry and the NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine was a crisis engineered with great deliberation by the Anglo-American nexus per a pernicious agenda… Continue reading
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Feb 08 2025 
In Valdai, confronting the “American problem” in West Asia
While Trump runs riot with his global land grab projects, multipolar visionaries in Valdai were mapping out the actual, tangible territorial routes that will define this century’s geopolitics and geoeconomics.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
MOSCOW – The 14th Middle East Conference of the Valdai Club in Moscow was hit by a geopolitical bunker buster bomb right… Continue reading
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Jan 15 2025 
I’m gonna MAGA you, Baby
No wonder Trump had to come up with a seductive, but still fraught with danger, larger than life psy op to imperatively change the narrative.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
It’s the greatest show on earth – unleashing a double bill of New Paradigm and Manifest Destiny on crack. We are the greatest. We will… Continue reading
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Jun 27 2024 
The World ceased to be American
‘As you know, after the third ring, the lights go out and the show begins… but the United States remained silent.’
By Rotislav Ishchenko.
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Akella missed only once, and only because Sherkhan deliberately startled a deer that was being chased by a pack of wolves. And then he immediately had complex, almost unsolvable, problems. The crisis… Continue reading
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May 09 2024 
The Mistral Blows for Empire in the Sahel
Such a thing never happened in the past one hundred years since the United States stepped out of the Western Hemisphere as an imperial power — an adversary barging into one of its military bases abroad.
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
US, Russia lock horns in Niger
A military base is deemed sovereign territory and… Continue reading
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Apr 30 2024 
Empire Besieged
Nothing works to quell the Resistances in West Asia or the Sahel.
Police viciousness sets in within the imperial core.
We’re in a screeching, bargaining, retreat phase..Garland Nixon interviews Laith Marouf — Tuesday’s West Asia and World update.
Deep breathes before Rafah and Lebanon. US students on front lines. The sheer agony of the Empire stuck in the… Continue reading -
Jan 29 2024 
The Resistance Swarms The US
The US is so deeply mired in an unwinnable battle from the Levant to the Persian Gulf that only its adversaries in China, Russia, and Iran can bail it out.
by Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at The Cradle
Deterrence in defense is a military strategy where one power uses the threat of reprisal to preclude attack from an… Continue reading
