It was a photo op for the ages: a visibly well-disposed President Xi Jinping receiving centenarian “old friend of China” Henry Kissinger in Beijing. Mirroring meticulous Chinese attention to protocol, they met at Villa 5…
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.
When the lightning of History strikes, better cut to the chase in our first draft. When the lightning of History strikes, better cut to the chase in our first draft. Here we go. After the…
It’s fascinating to see how Russian war correspondents are now playing a role similar to the former political commissars in the USSR. President Putin’s meeting with a group of Russian war correspondents and Telegram bloggers – including…
Following Wagner’s ‘rebellion’ – which was nothing more than a blatant coup attempt, and a PR stunt demonstrated by Prighozin’s top-notch theatrics – NATO and the Collective West’s excitement over the possibility of Russia descending…
The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is not only the premier platform for discussing everything that matters in business and geoeconomics concerning Russia and the wider Eurasia. It’s a privileged space where trends of the…
Remember Putin: “We haven’t even started anything yet.” “Whispers of an ‘evil power’ were heard in lines at dairy shops, in streetcars, stores, apartments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance trains, at stations large and small, in…
With G7 “leadership” mired in a sticky swamp of intellectual shallowness, predictably the only agenda in colonized Japan was more sanctions on Russia. Let’s start with a graphic depiction of where the Global North and…
Prof. Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point” is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and…
Dissent is brewing inside the EU and inside NATO as old aristocracy and business circles of France and Germany feel betrayed by Washington, Pepe Escobar, geopolitical analyst and veteran journalist, told Radio Sputnik’s New Rules…
This photo illustration taken on January 6, 2017 shows Chinese 100 yuan notes and one US dollar notes in Beijing – Sputnik International, 1920, 03.05.2023 © AFP 2023 / FRED DUFOUR De-dollarization is heading for a…