Academic Stephen Wertheim’s new book shines revealing light on the birth of US global supremacy, just as it reaches its denouement As the Exceptional Empire gets ready to brave a destructive – and self-destructive –…
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.
Whether civil war is coming will depend on the degree of stoicism prevalent among the Deplorable multitudes. I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Get down, get undressed Get pretty but you…
One year ago, the Raging Twenties started with a murder. The assassination of Maj Gen Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy…
When it comes to sowing – and profiting – from division, Erdogan’s Turkey is quite the superstar. Under the delightfully named Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), the Trump administration duly slapped sanctions on…
[DPRK], China, Russia and Iran are the top [four] existential “threats” to the U.S., according to the National Security Strategy. Three features distinguish the top [four]. They are all sovereign powers. They are under varying…
World’s biggest free trade pact isn’t about excluding the US or China’s geopolitical ambitions but rather the natural evolution of Asian integration Ho Chi Minh, in his eternal abode, will be savoring it with a…
Biden is on a double precipice of the worst-ever economic depression coupled with imminent explosions of social rage The massive psyop is ongoing. Everyone familiar with the Transition Integrity Project knew how this would imperatively play…
In this gaming exercise the incumbent president, Buffoon, was painted red; the challenger, Corpse, blue America’s contested presidential election risks turning the nation into a developed world Banana Republic. Image: Facebook A gaming exercise…
Whatever the geopolitical and geoeconomic consequences of the spectacular US dystopia, the Russia-China strategic partnership, in their own slightly different registers, have already voted on their path forward. Here is how I framed what…
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…
