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Jun 12 2025 
I’m just a Pilgrim
George Galloway interviews Pepe Escobar in the capital of the Last Rome
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Jun 10 2025 
How to fact-check Techno-Feudalism?
There are auspicious signs on the other side of dystopia. And right here in Russia.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The Global Digital Forum last week in delightful Nizhny Novgorod represented a landmark in the quest for a more equitable media landscape across the whole Global South.
Pride of place was taken by a new… Continue reading
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Jun 10 2025 
Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Security Council via videoconference.
[Ed Note: President Putin started with Russian values and zeitgeist. Reading this, one cannot help but inadvertently compare with the flat, dead, and blasted utter low-level harshness and hatred decorated with unalloyed extreme insults that we have seen coming out of the West. It is a comparison of barbarism vs cultured sovereign civilization. Russia does… Continue reading
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Jun 08 2025 
Caption This
(Mine) Metropolitan Kirill: “Lord have Mercy. Did he really ask, “…why were the Oreshniks not released as the US & Tel Aviv saw this move as weak. Why did it not happen and will it happen?” Son, this venue ain’t the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). And no worldly weapon is gonna win this War”
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Jun 05 2025 
Does Russia ride a Paper Tiger?
“weak leaderships bring calamities on nations”
Amb. Bhadrakumar explores the deeper psycho-geopolitical questions we all ponder. The western assessment is that “Putin shies away from taking tough decisions.” Russia was bearded in their own den, shown by the perpetrators of the strategic bomber bases attack to be perhaps riding a paper tiger, and are now under… Continue reading
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Jun 03 2025 
Release the Oreshniks
Russian public opinion is becoming seriously fed up with being the target of serial terror attacks. The hour of fateful decision is getting late.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
This was the mood in informed Moscow – only a few hours before the renewed Istanbul kabuki on Russia-Ukraine “negotiations”. Three key points.
The attack… Continue reading
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Jun 01 2025 
Russia’s goodwill is exhausted
This is a quote from an article by Kirill Strelnikov at Ria Novosti. This is not particularly special or marvellous commentary, but it is typical of Russian commentary in their major media outlets. Underneath, though, Russians are growling and beginning to bay for blood after the latest strikes. I cannot see that there will be… Continue reading
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May 31 2025 
The USSR can only be restored by reviving socialism
Featured Image: Ilya Repin’s painting “Barge Haulers on the Volga” (1870-73)
We know from other sources that Russia has been seeking for a deep representation of what they are. There is a new search for an identity that is expressed in a shorter slogan. The best way to explain it is to point… Continue reading
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May 29 2025 
From TASS: Russia’s discussion with Yemeni Official (asking for help)
Media: Yemen looking to Russia to help restore peace
Russia maintains an active position on resolving the crisis in Yemen, as it remains in contact with both the internationally recognized government and the Houthis that control a large part of the country. On May 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Rashad Mohammad al-Alimi, chairman… Continue reading
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May 25 2025 
European kakistocracy locked in a Forever War against Russia
Never interrupt your enemy when he is committing serial suicide.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is committing serial suicide (in reverse American gore-style, when the serial killer always resurrects). In the case of the EU kakistocracy, serial self-destruction is always a given, and always skyrocketing.
So the EUrocrats in… Continue reading
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May 24 2025 
A Travelogue of Modern Iran: From the Caspian to the Persian Gulf
The full version, including what happened in Tehran on several fronts – IRGC, nanotechnology, academic debates – of the column originally published on Sputnik.
By Pepe Escobar at VKontakte.
ON THE ROAD IN IRAN – The International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) is one of the most crucial geoeconomic/infrastructure projects of the 21st century. It unites at… Continue reading
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May 23 2025 
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight a war and die.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight… Continue reading
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May 20 2025 
A Roving Persian Glance
The coming Anglo-Zionist Messianic Storm
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May 17 2025 
The Istanbul Kabuki — decoded
The endgame is clear: the US losing the entire Eurasian land mass. Ukraine, under these immense geopolitical imperatives, is only a sovereign-deprived pawn in the (Great) Game.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Did President Putin really change the game by proposing the resumption of negotiations on the proxy war in Ukraine in Istanbul –… Continue reading
