‘No mountains can stop the surging flow of a mighty river.’ With the addition of six new members that add geostrategic clout and geographic depth to the once sputtering BRICS, the multilateral institution is now gathering the momentum needed to reset international relations. In the end, History was made. Surpassing even the greatest of expectations, […]
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Central Asia Is The Prime Battlefield In The New Great Game by Pepe Escobar
So long as Russia and China remain the region’s dominant political and economic powers, the Central Asian heartland will remain a US and EU target for threats, bribes, and color revolutions. Samarkand, Uzbekistan – The historical Heartland – or Central Eurasia – already is, and will continue to be, the prime battlefield in the New […]
First We Go For Moscow, Then We Take Beijing by Pepe Escobar
Three interventions in St. Petersburg summarize the pan-African drive to finally get rid of exploitative neocolonialism. The Global Majority is free to choose two different paths to counteract the rabid, cognitive dissonant Straussian neocon psychos in charge of imperial foreign policy; to relentlessly ridicule them, or to work hard on the long and winding road […]
Syria: A Tale Of Plunder And Resurrection by Pepe Escobar
The war on Syria has vanished from the collective West ethos. Yet it’s far from finished. Multitudes across the Global Majority may feel the deepest empathy towards Syrians while acknowledging not much can be done while the Western Minority refuses to leave the stage. In parallel, there are slim chances the New Development Bank (NDB) […]
All Quiet (Panic) On The Western Front by Pepe Escobar
The mainstream media of the collective West, in unison, will be spinning non-stop, for a week, all the “news” that are fit to print to extol new declinations of The Great Reset, re-baptized The Great Narrative, but actually framed as a benign offer by “stakeholder capitalism”. These are the main planks of the shady platform […]
The Global South Births A New Game-Changing Payment System by Pepe Escobar
Challenging the western monetary system, the Eurasia Economic Union is leading the Global South toward a new common payment system to bypass the US Dollar. The 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 […]
Goodbye G20, Hello BRICS+ by Pepe Escobar
The increasingly irrelevant G20 Summit concluded with sure signs that BRICS+ will be the way forward for Global South cooperation. he 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 […]
Berlin Goes To Beijing: The Real Deal by Pepe Escobar
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. With his inimitable flair for economic analysis steeped in historical depth, Professor Michael Hudson’s latest essay, originally written for a German audience, presents a stunning parallel between the Crusades and […]
China: Xi Gets Ready For The Final Countdown by Pepe Escobar
What drives China and Russia is that sooner rather than later they will be ruling the Heartland.President Xi Jinping’s 1h45min speech at the opening of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing was an absorbing exercise of recent past informing near future. All […]
The Thin Red Line: NATO Can’t Afford To Lose Kabul And Kiev by Pepe Escobar
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 Qatar-Turkey gas pipeline, to the […]
Terror On Crimea Bridge Forces Russia To Unleash Shock’n Awe by Pepe Escobar
The western narrative of a ‘losing Russia’ has just been decimated by Moscow’s blitzkrieg against Ukraine and its foreign-backed terror operations The head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, confirmed face-to-face with Putin that Terror on the Bridge was carried out by the SBU – Ukrainian special services. Bastrykin told Putin, “we have already […]
Germany And EU Have Been Handed Over A Declaration Of War by Pepe Escobar
The sabotage of the Nord Stream (NS) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2) pipelines in the Baltic Sea has ominously propelled ‘Disaster Capitalism’ to a whole new, toxic level. This episode of Hybrid Industrial/Commercial War, in the form of a terror attack against energy infrastructure in international waters signals the absolute collapse of international law, drowned […]
The Real US Agenda In Africa Is Hegemony by Pepe Escobar
Forget development. Washington’s primary interest in Africa today is keeping the Chinese and Russians out. In a rational environment, the 77th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) would discuss alleviating the trials and tribulations of the Global South, especially Africa. That won’t be the case. Like a deer caught in the geopolitical headlights, UN […]
Roundtable #19: Gonzalo Lira, Pepe Escobar, and Andrei Martyanov (2:10:25)
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Germany’s Energy Suicide: An Autopsy by Pepe Escobar
The EU has weaponized the supply of European energy on behalf of a financial racket, against the interests of European industry and consumers. When Green fanatic Robert Habeck, posing as Germany’s Economy Minister, said earlier this week “we should expect the worst” in terms of energy security, he conveniently forgot to spell out how the […]
Which Crime Syndicate Murdered Darya Dugina? by Pepe Escobar
The vile assassination of Darya Dugina, or terror at the gates of Moscow, is not really solved – as much as the FSB seems to have cracked the case in a little over 24 hours. It’s now established that the main perpetrator, Azov batallion asset Natalia Vovk, did not act alone but had an Ukrainian […]
All The Way To Odessa by Pepe Escobar
As Eurasian integration will become an even stronger vector, Russian diplomacy will be solidifying the new normal.Dmitry Medvedev, relishing his unplugged self, has laid down the law on the Special Military Operation (SMO). Bluntly, he affirmed there is a “one and a half” scenario: either to go all the way, or a military coup d’etat […]
Six Months Into Ukraine’s Collapse, The World Has Changed Forever by Pepe Escobar
The inevitable transfer of power away from the west is leading to a surge in state-sponsored terrorism, but this will do little to reverse the trend Six months after the start of the Special Military Operation (SMO) by Russia in Ukraine, the geopolitical tectonic plates of the 21st century have been dislocated at astonishing speed […]
Fly Like An Eagle, Darya Dugina by Pepe Escobar
Darya Dugina will be flying like an eagle in an otherworldly sky. Darya Dugina, 30, daughter of Alexander Dugin, a smart, strong, ebullient, enterprising young woman, whom I met in Moscow and had the honor to cherish as a friend, has been brutally murdered. Not so long ago, the FSB was directly engaged in smashing […]
How A Missile In Kabul Connects To A Speaker In Taipei by Pepe Escobar
Washington’s hard power display of taking out Al-Qaeda’s Al-Zawahiri will not be reciprocated by Beijing over Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan. It does however, definitively bury the decades-long era of cooperative US-Chinese relations. Now compare it with hundreds of millions of Chinese who are not on Twitter but on Weibo, and a leadership in Beijing […]
Going To Samarkand by Pepe Escobar
The SCO and other pan-Eurasian organizations play a completely different – respectful, consensual – ball game. And that’s why they are catching the full attention of most of the Global South. The meeting of the SCO Ministerial Council in Tashkent this past Friday involved some very serious business. That was the key preparatory reunion previous […]
The Power Troika Trumps Biden In West Asia by Pepe Escobar
The presidents of Russia, Iran, and Turkey convened to discuss critical issues pertaining to West Asia, with the illegal US occupation of Syria a key talking point. Oil and gas, wheat and grains, missiles and drones – the hottest topics in global geopolitics today – were all on the agenda in Tehran this week.The Tehran […]
Russia And China Haven’t Even Started To Ratchet Up The Pain Dial by Pepe Escobar
The Suicide Spectacular Summer Show, currently on screen across Europe, proceeds in full regalia. The Suicide Spectacular Summer Show, currently on screen across Europe, proceeds in full regalia, much to the astonishment of virtually the whole Global South: a trashy, woke Gotterdammerung remake, with Wagnerian grandeur replaced by twerking. Decadent Roman Emperors at least exhibited […]
The Empire Is Not Done Torturing Afghanistan by Pepe Escobar
Despite its resounding defeat, NATO is not quite done with inflicting misery on the land of the Afghans Once upon a time, in a galaxy not far away, the Empire of Chaos launched the so-called “War on Terror” against an impoverished cemetery of empires at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. In the name […]
Behind The Tin Curtain: BRICS+ vs NATO/G7 by Pepe Escobar
The west is nostalgically caught up with outdated ‘containment’ policies, this time against Global South integration. Unfortunately for them, the rest of the world is moving on, together.Once upon a time, there existed an Iron Curtain which divided the continent of Europe. Coined by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the term was in reference […]
Exile On Main Street: The Sound Of The Unipolar World Fading Away by Pepe Escobar
The future world order, already in progress, will be formed by strong sovereign states. The ship has sailed. There’s no turning back. Let’s cut to the chase and roll in the Putin Top Ten of the New Era, announced by the Russian President live at the St. Petersburg forum for both the Global North and […]
Bilderberg Does China by Pepe Escobar
When Davos and Bilderberg messenger boys look at The Grand Chessboard, they realize that their era of perpetual free lunch is over. Discreetly, as under the radar as a looming virus, the 68th Bilderberg meeting is currently underway in Washington, D.C. Nothing to see here. No conspiracy theories about a “secret cabal”, please. This is […]
The Sanctioned Ones: How Iran-Russia Are Setting New Rules by Pepe Escobar
While China, keen to ward off US sanctions as long as possible, is lagging, its RIC partners Iran and Russia are doing the legwork to break the west’s global financial grip. The first Eurasia Economic Forum, held last week in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, should be regarded as a milestone in setting the parameters for the geoeconomic […]
The Eurasian Economic Union Steps Up by Pepe Escobar
The Eurasian Economic Forum has shown once again that this high-speed – economic integration – train has already left the station. The first Eurasian Economic Forum, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, took place this week at a very sensitive geopolitical juncture, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov keeps stressing that, “the West has declared total war against […]
Russia Rewrites The Art Of Hybrid War by Pepe Escobar
Hybrid War is being fought predominantly in the economic/financial battleground – and the pain dial for the collective West will only go up. The ironclad fictional “narrative” imposed all across NATOstan is that Ukraine is “winning”. So why would weapons peddler retrofitted as Pentagon head Lloyd “Raytheon” Austin literally beg since late February to have […]
Death By A Thousand Cuts: Where Is The West’s Ukraine Strategy? by Pepe Escobar
The pounding, daily western narratives on ‘Ukrainian wins’ and ‘Russian losses’ underpins the lack of an actual, cohesive Grand Strategy against Moscow. While we are all familiar with Sun Tzu, the Chinese general, military strategist and philosopher who penned the incomparable Art of War, less known is the Strategikon, the Byzantium equivalent on warfare. Sixth […]
Empire Of Bioweapon Lies by Pepe Escobar
This glimpse of “fear in a handful of dust” already ranks as one the prime breakthroughs of the young 21st century, presented this week by Chief of Russian Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Force Igor Kirillov. The provisional results of evidence being collected about the work of U.S. bioweapons in Ukraine are simply astonishing. These […]
Putin Has Supporters Of The Left And The Right by Video Rebel
Brazil’s presidential election will be on Sunday, October 2nd. Both candidates support Putin more than Zelensky. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was a former union leader and was President from 2003 to 2010. He says Zelensky shares a lot of the blame for starting the war in The Ukraine. The current President Jair Bolsonaro is […]
Megalopolis x Russia: Total War by Pepe Escobar
After careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the “indispensable nation”. But it’s our fate / To have no place to rest, / As suffering mortals / Blindly fall and vanish / From one hour / To the next, / Like water falling / From cliff to […]
Clash Of Christianities: Why Europe Cannot Understand Russia by Pepe Escobar
Western Europeans see the Orthodox and eastern Christians as satraps and a bunch of smugglers, while the Orthodox regard the Crusaders as barbarian usurpers bent on world conquest. Under an ubiquitous, toxic atmosphere of cognitive dissonance drenched in Russophobia, it’s absolutely impossible to have a meaningful discussion on finer points of Russian history and culture […]
Empire Of Lies Eager To Receive Mr. Sarmat’s Business Card by Pepe Escobar
Amidst the propaganda dementia cum acute cognitive dissonance overdrive across the whole NATOstan sphere, the only antidote is served by sparse voices of reason, which happen to be Russian, thus silenced and/or dismissed. Especially since the onset of GWOT (Global War on Terror) at the start of the millennium, no one ever lost money betting […]
Ukraine War Update With Pepe Escobar And Richard Medhurst (Starts At 11:24) (1:34:52)
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Aux Armes, Citoyens: Dissecting The Stage-Managed French Elections by Pepe Escobar
Macron’s second presidency was as calculatingly managed by France’s liberal elite as his first. As the country’s economic and geographic schisms widen further, yesterday’s Yellow Vest protests will seem like a tea party by comparison. ‘Le Petit Roi’ Emmanuel Macron generates less than zero empathy across France. That explains the huge voter abstention of 28 […]
The Moskva Riddle by Pepe Escobar
Get ready: something lethally “asymmetrical” may be about to pop up Neither NATO nor Russia is telling us what really happened with the Moskva, the legendary admiral ship of the Black Sea fleet. NATO because in theory, they know. Moscow, for its part, made it clear they are not saying anything until they can be […]
Big Tech’s ‘Cancel Culture’ Love Affair by Pepe Escobar
Cancel culture is inbuilt in the techno-feudalist project: conform to the hegemonic narrative, or else. Journalism that does not conform must be taken down. Utter insanity, @Twitter has suspended @RealPepeEscobar, one of Eurasia’s top journalists and geopolitical analysts, with 35 years experience in the field. Twitter, kindly RESTORE this account and verify him. @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/5gSzvA7tuu […]
The Total War To Cancel Russia by Pepe Escobar
Vast swathes of NATOstan have been corralled into behaving like a Russophobic lynch mob. No dissent is tolerated. By now it’s abundantly clear that the neo-Orwellian “Two Minute Hate” Russophobic campaign launched by the Empire of Lies after the start of Operation Z is actually “24/7 Hate”. Vast swathes of NATOstan have been corralled into […]
Sit Back And Watch Europe Commit Suicide by Pepe Escobar
If the US goal is to crush Russia’s economy with sanctions and isolation, why is Europe in an economic free fall instead? The stunning spectacle of the European Union (EU) committing slow motion hara-kiri is something for the ages. Like a cheap Kurosawa remake, the movie is actually about the US-detonated demolition of the EU, […]
‘Rublegas:’ The World’s New Resource-Based Reserve Currency by Pepe Escobar
Rublegas is the commodity currency du jour and it isn’t nearly as complicated as NATO pretends. If Europe wants gas, all it needs to do is send its Euros to a Russian account inside Russia. Saddam, Gaddafi, Iran, Venezuela – they all tried but couldn’t do it. But Russia is on a different level altogether. […]
Get Back To Where We Once Were, John by Pepe Escobar
Gottta live up to this cultural phenomenonThe sensibility of an era may be unified – even though it’s never uniform. Those who forget it are essentially visionaries, incurable romantics, prone to melancholy – an inextricable quality of genius, according to Aristotle. John Winston Lennon, self-styled working-class hero, prodigal son of a lower-middle-class fragmented family, may […]
Say Hello To Russian Gold And Chinese Petroyuan by Pepe Escobar
The Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions. It was a long time coming, but finally some key lineaments of the multipolar world’s new foundations are being revealed. On Friday, after a videoconference meeting, the Eurasian Economic Union […]
Cutting Through The Fog Masking ‘A New Page In The Art Of War’ by Pepe Escobar
The non-government in Kiev is simply not allowed by the Empire to negotiate anything.By now what we may call a Triple Threat has been established as the catalyst anticipating the launch of Operation Z. Ukraine developing nuclear weapons. Zelensky himself hinted at it in the Munich Security Conference. U.S. bioweapons labs in Ukraine. Confirmed, tersely, […]
Russian Judo Tears The West Apart by Pepe Escobar
Washington’s sanctions on Moscow will destroy Europe, not Russia.The battlefield is drawn. The official Russian blacklist of hostile sanctioning nations includes the US, the EU, Canada and, in Asia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore (the only one from Southeast Asia). The Global South should be aware there are no nations from West Asia, Latin […]
From The Black Sea To The East Med, Don’t Poke The Russian Bear by Pepe Escobar
The US shouldn’t have poked the Russian Bear. Now it is fully awake: after Ukraine, the Russians are likely to do a clean sweep of foreign belligerents poking around the East Med and the Black Sea. This is what happens when a bunch of ragged hyenas, jackals and tiny rodents poke The Bear: a new […]
The Birth Of The Baby Twins: Russia’s Strategic Swing Drives NATOstan Nuts by Pepe Escobar (Text and Video)
“You don’t believe in the principle of indivisible security? Fine. Now we dictate the security rhythm.” History will register that the birth of the baby twins – Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics – only a few hours before 2/22/22, was simultaneous to the birth of the real, 21st century multipolar world. As my columns have […]
War Inc. Throws An Invasion Party And No One Shows Up by Pepe Escobar
Moscow has not deviated for a moment from its Sun Tzu approach – while detailing all demands and all red lines many times over. The Dem combo remote-controlling the senile President of the United States by earpiece/teleprompter was never accused of being the brightest bulbs in the room – any room. That explains why one […]
Erdogan In Kiev, Putin In Beijing: Can Neo-Ottomanism Fit Into Greater Eurasia? by Pepe Escobar
Reporting from Istanbul: As the world turns further over monumental announcements from the Putin-Xi summit in Beijing, Turkey’s Erdogan keeps walking a thinning tightrope between NATO and Eurasia. The Chinese year of the Black Water Tiger started with a big bang – a live Beijing summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart […]
Putin And Xi Plot Their SWIFT Escape by Pepe Escobar
Russia and China’s announcement of an independent financial trading platform will free nations under US sanctions from western intrusion into their commercial activities. Vladimir Putin got straight to the point. At the opening of his one hour and fourteen minute video conversation with Xi Jinping on 15 December, he described Russia-China relations as “an example […]
Xi’s New Communist Manifesto by Pepe Escobar
Marx. Lenin. Mao. Deng. Xi. Late last week in Beijing, the sixth plenum of the Chinese Communist Party adopted a historic resolution – only the third in its 100-year history – detailing major accomplishments and laying out a vision for the future. Essentially, the resolution poses three questions. How did we get here? How come […]
The Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan Back With A Bang by Pepe Escobar
The US ‘loss’ of Afghanistan is a repositioning and the new mission is not a ‘war on terror,’ but Russia and China. In the end, the Saigon moment happened faster than any Western intel “expert” expected. This is one for the annals: four frantic days that wrapped up the most astonishing guerrilla blitzkrieg of recent […]
The Chinese Miracle, Revisited by Pepe Escobar
… China, the emerging superpower, is back to the global prominence it enjoyed throughout centuries of recorded history, while the declining Hegemon is paralyzed by the “existential challenge” posed to its fleeting, unilateral dominance … What matters is what they define as a very effective system to make SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound) […]
The Disintegrated States Of America by Pepe Escobar
Andrei Martyanov’s new book on imperial decline features a devastating indictment of US political mediocrity. Martyanov also feels compelled to update what he’s been excelling at for years: the fact that the arrival of hypersonic missiles “has changed warfare forever”. The Khinzal, deployed way back in 2017, has a range of 2,000 km and “is […]
What Is Rent Seeking? With Michael Hudson And Pepe Escobar (1:36:42)
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Banana Follies: The Mother Of All Color Revolutions by Pepe Escobar
In this gaming exercise the incumbent president, Buffoon, was painted red; the challenger, Corpse, blue A gaming exercise of the perfect, indigenous color revolution, code-named Blue, was leaked from a major think tank established in the imperial lands that first designed the color revolution concept. https://www.unz.com/pescobar/banana-follies-the-mother-of-all-color-revolutions