Let’s Cut to the Chase: Cold War 2.0 has hit South America with a bang – pitting the US and expected minions against the four key pillars of in-progress Eurasia integration: Russia, China, Iran and…
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.
New president spoke at the WEF this week, to the despair of environmentalists, who say his government poses a serious threat to the ‘Lungs of the world’ No Xi, no Putin, no Modi. No Trump,…
Washington insists sanctions will remain until Russia returns the peninsula to Ukraine, but this will never happen. For Moscow, Crimea is back to where it belongs, and this is a region that has seen conquerors…
Russia is keen to push economic integration with parts of Asia and this fits in with China’s Belt and Road Initiative The concept of Greater Eurasia has been discussed at the highest levels of Russian…
Sitting alongside French President Macron during the 100th anniversary to commemorate the end of World War I, Putin and Trump stole the show in Paris The Elysee Palace protocol was implacable. Nobody in Paris would…
Welcome to the Jungle! A troubling new era has begun in Brazil with the election on Sunday of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro as president. It’s darkness at the break of (tropical) high noon. Jean Baudrillard…
The Pentagon may not be advocating total war against both Russia and China – as it has been interpreted in some quarters A crucial Pentagon report on the US defense industrial base and “supply chain…
Stripped to its essence, the Brazilian presidential elections represent a direct clash between democracy and an early 21st Century neofascism, indeed between civilization and barbarism, writes Pepe Escobar. Nothing less than the future of politics…
Brussels sets up a ‘special purpose vehicle’ to bypass the US dollar and allow financial transactions with Tehran to continue History may one day rule this was the fateful geopolitical moment when the European Union…
The West’s illiberal-bashing frenzy has reduced what should be a crucial debate about a fearful West Against the Rest, to the more pressing issue of The West Against Itself. What is the bigger story? The…