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Pepe Escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst. He writes for RT, Sputnik and TomDispatch, and is a frequent contributor to websites and radio and TV shows ranging from the US to East Asia. He is the former roving correspondent for Asia Times Online. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Even before 9/11 he specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of "Globalistan" (2007), "Red Zone Blues" (2007), "Obama does Globalistan" (2009) and "Empire of Chaos" (2014), all published by Nimble Books. His latest book is "2030", also by Nimble Books, out in December 2015.
(16 comments) SHARE Friday, March 25, 2022 Make Nazism Great Again
Azov was sent a last ultimatum: surrender until midnight - or else, as in a take no prisoners highway to hell.
That implies a major game-changer in the Ukrainian battlefield; Mariupol is finally about to be thoroughly denazified - as the Azov contingent long entrenched in the city and using civilians as human shields were their most hardened fighting force.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, March 18, 2022 All That Glitters Is Not Necessarily Russian Gold
The "rules-based international order" - as in "our way or the highway" - is unraveling much faster than anyone could have predicted.
(9 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 1, 2022 Follow the Money - How Russia Will Bypass Western Economic Warfare
A number of Russian banks are already connected to China's CIPS system. For instance if someone wants to buy Russian oil and gas with CIPS payment must be in the Chinese yuan currency. CIPS is independent of SWIFT.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 24, 2022 The birth of the baby twins: Russia's strategic swing drives NATOstan nuts
(Written this morning in Istanbul, BEFORE Putin buried the Minsk agreements. Everything else - and beyond - stands.)
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, January 14, 2022 This Is How the U.S. Does 'Dialogue'
Washington will not consider Russian proposals on no expansion of NATO and has no intention of even discussing the idea. So much for "dialogue".
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 2, 2022 What Putin Really Told Biden
The root cause of all this drama, absent from any NATO narrative, is straightforward - Kiev simply refuses to respect the February 2015 Minsk Agreement.
SHARE Friday, August 27, 2021 Pepe Escobar: Afghanistan? Follow the Money
With the fall of Kabul, Pepe Escobar says it's becoming clear that financial soft power tactics may be even more deadly than a NATO occupation.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 10, 2021 Iran embraces its Eurasian future
Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi was sworn in as the eightth president of Iran this Thursday at the Majlis (Parliament), two days after being formally endorsed by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, May 14, 2021 The Tragedy of the U.S. Deep State
At a recent forum in Arizona, referring to the festering, larger than life Sino-American clash, Henry the K. said, "It's the biggest problem for America; it's the biggest problem for the world. Because if we can't solve that, then the risk is that all over the world a kind of cold war will develop between China and the United States."
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, March 8, 2021 The Shape of Things to Come in China
On foreign policy, Li could not draw a sharper contrast with the Hegemon: "China will pursue an independent foreign policy of peace" and will "promote the building of a new type of international relations."
(13 comments) SHARE Friday, January 15, 2021 9/11 Was the Prelude. 1/6 Is the Holy Grail
9/11 opened the gates to the Patriot Act, whose core had already been written way back in 1994. 1/6 opens the gate to the War on Domestic Terror and the Patriot Act from Hell, 2.0, on steroids.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 13, 2020 US Hits "Search and Destroy" Against China's New Silk Roads
Seven years after being launched by President Xi Jinping, first in Astana and then in Jakarta, the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) increasingly drive the American plutocratic oligarchy completely nuts.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 5, 2020 No escape from our techno-feudal world
The Digital Age was crucially associated with right-wing ideology from the very start. To break down Control, we must be able to hack into and disrupt its core programs.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 1, 2020 Can You Smell What the Chinese Are Cooking?
Less than a week before the game-changing U.S. presidential election, the real heart of the geopolitical and geoeconomic action is virtually invisible to the outside world. We're talking about the fifth plenum of the 19th Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Central Committee, which started this past Monday in Beijing.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 24, 2020 Make America Jeffersonian Again
The whole planet has every reason to be terminally puzzled at how all those lofty Enlightenment ideals Thomas Jefferson embedded in the 1776 Declaration of Independence ended up with...Trump vs. Biden.