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Pepe Escobar: The West is Hell-Bent on Provoking Russia Into Hot War

Pepe Escobar: The West is Hell-Bent on Provoking Russia Into Hot War © Sputnik / Stanislav Krasilnikov The warning by President Putin could not be starker: “In the event of the use of long-range weapons, the Russian Armed Forces will again have to make decisions about expanding the sanitary zone further (…) Do they want […]

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It’s War: The Real Meat Grinder Starts Now

It’s War: The Real Meat Grinder Starts Now Exhibit 1: Friday, March 22, 2024. It’s War. The Kremlin, via Peskov, finally admits it, on the record. The money quote: “Russia cannot allow the existence on its borders of a state that has a documented intention to use any methods to take Crimea away from it, not […]

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Will BRICS launch a new world in 2024?

Will BRICS launch a new world in 2024? BRICS doubled its membership at the start of 2024, and faces huge tasks ahead: integrating its newest members, developing future admission criteria, deepening the institution’s groundings, and most importantly, launching the mechanisms for bypassing the US dollar in international finance. (Photo Credit: The Cradle) MOSCOW – Across […]

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How Yemen’s ‘asabiyya’ is reshaping geopolitics

January 28, 2024

How Yemen’s ‘asabiyya’ is reshaping geopolitics The Arabic word Asabiyya, or ‘social solidarity,’ is a soundbite in the west, but taken very seriously by the globe’s new contenders China, Russia, and Iran. It is Yemen, however, that is mainstreaming the idea, by sacrificing everything for the world’s collective morality in a bid to end the […]

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Pepe Escobar: How the West Was Defeated

January 20, 2024

Pepe Escobar: How the West Was Defeated © AFP 2023 Emmanuel Todd, historian, demographer, anthropologist, sociologist and political analyst, is part of a dying breed: one of the very few remaining exponents of old school French intelligentzia – a heir to those like Braudel, Sartre, Deleuze and Foucault who dazzled successive young Cold War generations from […]

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War of Economic Corridors: the India-Mideast-Europe ploy

September 26, 2023

War of Economic Corridors: the India-Mideast-Europe ploy The India-Middle East-Europe transportation corridor may be the talk of the town, but it will likely go the way of the last three Asia-to-Europe connectivity projects touted by the west – to the dustbin. Here’s why. Photo Credit: The Cradle The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is a […]

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Central Asia is the prime battlefield in the New Great Game

August 21, 2023

Central Asia is the prime battlefield in the New Great Game So long as Russia and China remain the region’s dominant political and economic powers, the Central Asian heartland will remain a US and EU target for threats, bribes, and color revolutions. Photo Credit: The Cradle Samarkand, Uzbekistan – The historical Heartland – or Central Eurasia […]

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Neocons Want War with China

Neocons Want War with China 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 of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse – exactly where Kissinger first met in person with Zhou Enlai […]

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The stage is set for Hybrid World War III

The stage is set for Hybrid World War III A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you’re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by selected stops and enlightening conversations, crystallizing disparate vectors one year after the start of the accelerated phase of the proxy war between […]

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Nord Stream Terror Attack: The Plot Thickens

February 16, 2023

Nord Stream Terror Attack: The Plot Thickens What’s left for all of us is to swim in a swamp crammed with derelict patsies, dodgy cover stories and intel debris. Seymour Hersh’s bombshell report on how the United States government blew up the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea last September continues […]

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Escobar: The War Of Terror Of A Rogue Superpower – Cui Bono?

February 13, 2023

Escobar: The War Of Terror Of A Rogue Superpower – Cui Bono? Everyone with a brain already knew the Empire did it. Now Seymour Hersh’s bombshell report not only details how Nord Stream 1 and 2 were attacked, but also names names: from the toxic Straussian neoliberal-con trio Sullivan, Blinken and Nuland all the way to the Teleprompter […]

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The Big Stiff: Russia-Iran dump the dollar and bust US sanctions

February 11, 2023

The Big Stiff: Russia-Iran dump the dollar and bust US sanctions News of Russian banks connecting to Iran’s financial messaging system strengthens the resistance against US-imposed sanctions on both countries and accelerates global de-dollarization. Photo credit: The Cradle The agreement between the Central Banks of Russia and Iran formally signed on 29 January connecting their […]

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Pepe Escobar: Ukraine War is Desperate Move by U.S. to Preserve Hegemony and Prevent Multipolar World

February 4, 2023

Pepe Escobar: Ukraine War is Desperate Move by U.S. to Preserve Hegemony and Prevent Multipolar World The war in Ukraine is not just about Ukraine and Russia with the U.S. and NATO acting as seemingly benevolent supporters of Ukraine, as the Western media portray. The war in Ukraine is not just about Ukraine and Russia […]

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Escobar: The ‘Doomsday Clock’ Is Speeding Up

January 30, 2023

Escobar: The ‘Doomsday Clock’ Is Speeding Up The Doomsday Clock, set by the US-based magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has been moved to 90 seconds to midnight… That’s the closest ever to total nuclear doom, the global catastrophe. The Clock had been set at 100 seconds since 2020. The Bulletin’s Science and Security Board and a group […]

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Global South: Gold-backed currencies to replace the US dollar

January 21, 2023

Global South: Gold-backed currencies to replace the US dollar The adoption of commodity-backed currencies by the Global South could upend the US dollar’s dominance and level the playing field in international trade. Photo Credit: The Cradle Let’s start with three interconnected multipolar-driven facts. First: One of the key take aways from the World Economic Forum […]

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