Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a US war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump’s war is singularly directed at the…
Category: Pepe Escobar
Pepe Escobar (born 1954) is a Brazilian journalist. He writes a column – The Roving Eye – for Asia Times Online, and works as an analyst for RT, Sputnik News, and Press TV as well as formerly for Al Jazeera.
SAADA, northwest Yemen – It’s 2 pm on Wednesday, March 26, and I am standing in a deserted boulevard in Saada during Ramadan, in silence, surrounded by mountains, and watching a road sign telling me…
In this incandescent juncture, what matters is off the record. Let’s start with that phone call. The Kremlin readout is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal –…
The Two Sessions, part of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, held last week at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, were a pretty serious deal. Not only because the sessions set the…
The SMO will keep rollin’ on. And as the Europeans want it, to the last Ukrainian. Let’s start with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Road to Damascus moment: “Frankly, it’s a proxy war between…
For those who keep track of the slings and arrows crossing the broader geopolitical chessboard non-stop, it’s an immensely powerful – and humbling – experience to one day be contemplating the devastated Avdeyevka, in the…
The Empire of Chaos will not take the competition lightly. The Middle Kingdom is unfazed – and ready to rock’n roll. When President Xi Jinping hosted a recent – rare – meeting with an array…
European chihuahuas, enjoy your “strategic defeat” fantasies! Let’s start with the tale of an Empire bragging to the wind. Mr. Disco Inferno orders OPEC and OPEC+ to lower the price of oil, because, in his…
In the late 1970s Donald Trump, in his early thirties, cocky as ever and recently married to Ivana in 1977, could be seen on and off hitting the electric New York City night life especially…
Only the U.S. can rebrand a genocide into a great real estate opportunity in a “phenomenal location”. Let’s start with the key take away: Manifest Destiny reaching the stars. Literally. Trump 2.0 – the greatest…