Would you like to know how many people have visited this page? Or how reputable the author is? Simply
sign up for a Advocate premium membership and you'll automatically see this data on every article. Plus a lot more, too.
I have 190 fans: Become a Fan. You'll get emails whenever I post articles on OpEd News
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.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 14, 2017 Silk Road fever grips the Russian Far East and boosts economy
This is just the latest example of Russian and Chinese cooperation geared around the New Silk Roads or the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Beijing is the world's largest importer of copper and iron ore, and virtually the entire output from Bystrinsky will go to the world's second largest economy.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 7, 2016 The New Normal: Cold War 2.0
Relentless rhetorical hysteria masks the real high-stakes game in play. And that's where US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton fits in. Throughout her campaign, Clinton has extolled "a major strategic objective of our transatlantic alliance." The major "strategic objective" is none other than the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 17, 2015 Russia's ultimate lethal weapon
Currently the only products that the West needs from Russia are oil and natural gas. A possible Russian default on its debt would have no effect on that demand in the short-term; and most probably in the long-term as well, unless it would contribute to a new financial crisis in the West, something that nearly happened in 1998.
(31 comments) SHARE Friday, May 2, 2014 NATO's soft war on Russia
The bottom line: global Robocop NATO can only survive if it faces a mortal threat. US Think Tankland is frantically downgrading NATO hysteria about "aggressive Russia" as a "measured response." That fools only the hopelessly misinformed. After creating a failed state in Libya and the Afghanistan fiasco, global Robocop NATO, in its quest for "purpose" and meaning, cannot stop from fabricating an enemy.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 24, 2015 Live from New York, it's "Putin the Great"
Putin is bound to deliver a showstopper at the UN. Spare a thought for the Obama administration's foreign policy "muppets," including the neocon cell at the State Department. Putin, under the glare of global public opinion, will frame the absolute defeat of ISIS/ISIL/Daesh as the key geopolitical issue of these times; he will commit Russia to it; and he will propose for the "West" to join in.
(19 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 10, 2022 The Total War to Cancel Russia
Vast swathes of NATOstan have been corralled into behaving like a Russophobic lynch mob. No dissent is tolerated.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 15, 2017 Trump, Kissinger and Ma playing on a crowded chessboard
Trump will do business and clinch deals with China, while his deep state-tinged cabinet barks the usually explosive national security rhetoric, dalang Kissinger plots a Russia-China split, and Moscow-Beijing secretly concoct concerted moves. Place your bets on who will be the major partner in the Trump, Kissinger and Ma law firm.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 3, 2015 The South China Sea word war
There's no mistake Washington is allowing the remilitarization of Japan. So it's time to launch a South China/East China Sea Watch. As in monitoring them for any dangerous pretext for a casus belli between the declining hegemon and the no longer "keep a low profile" re-emerging power.
(11 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 23, 2015 Putin and the Saudi Caravan
Putin and King Salman -- very discreetly -- had been in touch over the phone for weeks. The King's son invited Putin to Riyadh. Accepted. Putin invited the King to Moscow. Accepted. No question, the suspense is already killing everybody. But is this real life? Or smoke and mirrors?
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 27, 2016 Hillary: Wall Street's Golden Girl
In the spring of 2014, top Clinton Foundation donors discussed a bright future together inside Goldman Sachs' corporate HQ. Gary Gensler, formerly from Goldman Sachs and also former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is the Hillary Clinton campaign's chief financial officer. The record shows that for the Clinton system, Goldman Sachs is a sacred cow.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 31, 2016 Full Spectrum Dominatrix vs. Off Spectrum Narcissus
The CIA did not take down WikiLeaks. Hillary Clinton will make sure someone does. She will make sure "Russian aggression" is enshrined as some sort of national motto. When Hillary Clinton went for a "reset" in US-Russia relations, in both English and Russian, it was translated as "overload" -- a Freudian slip that elicited a smile from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov but a thousand jokes all across Russia.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Fear and loathing on the Afghan Silk Road
ISIS is already shipping out jihadis in retreat in both Iraq and Syria to the Hindu Kush. At the same time, it is actively enrolling scores of Pashtuns with lots of cash and weapons -- a workforce including tens of thousands of potential suicide bombers.
(14 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 24, 2017 Korea, Afghanistan and the Never Ending War trap
That "plan for an enveloping fire" around Guam remains on Kim Jong-un's table. It is essential to remember the plan was North Korea's response to Trump's "fire and fury" volley. Kim has stated that for diplomacy to work again, "it is necessary for the US to make a proper option first."
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 26, 2016 The Empire of Chaos Strikes Back
The CIA is also keen on Saudi Arabia destroying the Russian economy through an oil price war -- and they do not want that to stop; thus holding over the Saudis those famous 28 pages on 9/11 to keep the oil price war going. The CIA has also been trying like mad to lure Moscow into a Syrian trap as in 1980s Afghanistan. The problem is that the Kremlin did not bite the poisoned apple.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, August 29, 2016 The Whole Game is About Containing Russia-China
Compared to Russia's superior high-tech weaponry, NATO is a kindergarten mess; not to mention that soon Russian territory will be inviolable to any Star Wars-derived scheme. China will soon have all the submarines and "carrier-killer" missiles necessary to make life for the US Navy hell in case the Pentagon harbors funny ideas.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 29, 2018 How BRICS Plus clashes with the US economic war on Iran
In a not too veiled allusion to the Trump administration's unilateral pullout from the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA), Xi called all parties to "abide by international law and basic norms governing international relations and to settle disputes through dialogue and differences through consultation," adding that the BRICS are inevitably working for "a new type of international relations."
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 15, 2019 How Tehran Fits into Russia-China Strategy
What the past few months have made crystal clear is how Russia-China's magnetic pull is attracting key Eurasia players Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. And make no mistake: As much as Tehran may be extremely proud of its political independence, it is reassuring to know that Iran is, and will continue to be, a definitive red line for Russia-China.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 15, 2016 Why the Coup in Brazil Should Fail
The nation remains deeply polarized -- even with Rousseff not charged with any wrongdoing, unlike the lot in Congress who wants to bring down her government. Of the 65 members of the sham congressional committee who voted on impeachment, 35 of the 38 who voted in favor are being investigated for corruption.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 10, 2017 Saudi Crown Prince poised to take over as King: sources
The Saudi "anti-corruption" crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, initially netted 11 princes and a few dozen ministers and former ministers, has caught up with hundreds of businessmen, who are being detained in the luxurious Ritz Carlton and other hotels in Riyadh. The Wall Street Journal reports the Crown Prince is targeting an astonishing $800 BILLION in assets believed to be held in 1,700 frozen bank accounts.