https://www.opednews.com/populum/rss.php?c=a&t=&p=&tid=0 Opednews.com Progressive, Liberal United States and International News, Opinion, Op-Eds and Politics en-us Copyright 2026 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:46:41 -0400 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:46:41 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/rssbanner.png https://www.opednews.com/populum/rss.php?c=a&t=&p=&tid=0 152 149 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Sergey-Glazyev--The-Road-Global-Currency-230320-737.html Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:54:48 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Sergey-Glazyev--The-Road-Global-Currency-230320-737.html Pepe Escobar Russia's top macroeconomics strategist criticizes Moscow's slow pace of financial reform and warns there will be no new global currency without Beijing... https://www.opednews.com/articles/Sun-Tzu-Walks-Into-A-Khers-Nato-Countries_Russia_Russia-Ukraine_Ukraine-221113-58.html Sun, 13 Nov 2022 14:15:32 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Sun-Tzu-Walks-Into-A-Khers-Nato-Countries_Russia_Russia-Ukraine_Ukraine-221113-58.html Pepe Escobar The announcement of the Kherson Retreat may have signaled one of the gloomiest days of the Russian Federation since 1991. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Nord-Stream-2-Offers-Germa-Germany_Incompetence_Nord-Stream_Pipeline-221007-933.html Fri, 07 Oct 2022 11:35:52 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Nord-Stream-2-Offers-Germa-Germany_Incompetence_Nord-Stream_Pipeline-221007-933.html Pepe Escobar Whatever the modus operandi of Pipeline Terror, incompetence was part of the package. No explosive charges were placed or detonated on Line B of NS2. https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-a-Missile-in-Kabul-Con-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_China-Politics_China-Russia-Alliance_Eurasian-Economic-Union-220805-295.html Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:48:38 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-a-Missile-in-Kabul-Con-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_China-Politics_China-Russia-Alliance_Eurasian-Economic-Union-220805-295.html Pepe Escobar The Speaker's escapade was concomitant to the definitive burial of the "war on terror" cycle and its metastasis into the "war on Eurasia" era. It may have unwittingly provided the last missing cog to turbo-charge the complex machinery of the Russia-China strategic partnership. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Behind-the-Tin-Curtain--B-by-Pepe-Escobar-Brics_Energy_European-Union_Exports-220629-235.html Wed, 29 Jun 2022 13:13:43 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Behind-the-Tin-Curtain--B-by-Pepe-Escobar-Brics_Energy_European-Union_Exports-220629-235.html Pepe Escobar It would be misguided to expect those G7 luminaries gathered in Bavaria to understand the absurdity of imposing a price cap on Russian oil and gas exports for instance. Were that to really happen Moscow will have no problems fully cutting energy supply to the G7 and if other nations are excluded the price of the oil and gas they import would drastically increase. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Exile-on-Main-Street--The-by-Pepe-Escobar-Blame-Russia_China-Iran-Russia-Alliance_China-Russia-Alliance_European-Union-220623-120.html Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:48:48 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Exile-on-Main-Street--The-by-Pepe-Escobar-Blame-Russia_China-Iran-Russia-Alliance_China-Russia-Alliance_European-Union-220623-120.html Pepe Escobar The future world order already in progress will be formed by strong sovereign states. The ship has sailed. There's no turning back. https://www.opednews.com/articles/St-Petersburg-Sets-the-St-by-Pepe-Escobar-Asia-pacific-Economic-Cooperation_China-Iran-Russia-Alliance_China-Russia-Alliance_China-pakistan-Economic-Corridor-220620-875.html Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:52:27 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/St-Petersburg-Sets-the-St-by-Pepe-Escobar-Asia-pacific-Economic-Cooperation_China-Iran-Russia-Alliance_China-Russia-Alliance_China-pakistan-Economic-Corridor-220620-875.html Pepe Escobar The contrast between the St. Petersburg debates on a possible re-wiring of our world and the Three Stooges Taking a Train to Nowhere to tell a mediocre Ukrainian comedian to calm down and negotiate his surrender as confirmed by German intelligence could not be starker. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-New-G8-Meets-China-s-by-Pepe-Escobar-Belt-Road-Initiative-China-Trillion-Dollar-Plan_Brics_China_China-And-Hong-Kong-220616-15.html Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:19:47 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-New-G8-Meets-China-s-by-Pepe-Escobar-Belt-Road-Initiative-China-Trillion-Dollar-Plan_Brics_China_China-And-Hong-Kong-220616-15.html Pepe Escobar The coming of the new G8 points to the inevitable advent of BRICS +, one of the key themes to be discussed in the upcoming BRICS summit in China. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Sanctioned-Ones--How-by-Pepe-Escobar-Debt-Monetary-System_Iran_Petrodollar_Petroyuan-220531-129.html Tue, 31 May 2022 23:49:32 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Sanctioned-Ones--How-by-Pepe-Escobar-Debt-Monetary-System_Iran_Petrodollar_Petroyuan-220531-129.html Pepe Escobar It is clear that Washington decision makers want no negotiation but an endless war to the last Ukrainian. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Eurasian-Economic-Unio-by-Pepe-Escobar-Eurasian-Economic-Union_Eurasian-Union-220529-178.html Sun, 29 May 2022 16:33:26 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Eurasian-Economic-Unio-by-Pepe-Escobar-Eurasian-Economic-Union_Eurasian-Union-220529-178.html Pepe Escobar The Eurasian Economic Forum has shown once again that this high-speed - economic integration - train has already left the station. https://www.opednews.com/articles/NATO-vs-Russia--What-Happ-by-Pepe-Escobar-NATO_Nato-Expansion_Russia_Russia-Bashing-220525-542.html Wed, 25 May 2022 15:09:42 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/NATO-vs-Russia--What-Happ-by-Pepe-Escobar-NATO_Nato-Expansion_Russia_Russia-Bashing-220525-542.html Pepe Escobar Three months after the start of Russia's Operation Z in Ukraine, the battle of The West (12 percent) against The Rest (88 percent) keeps metastasizing yet the narrative oddly remains the same. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Russia-Rewrites-The-Art-of-by-Pepe-Escobar-Economic_Financial-Genocide_President-Joe-Biden_Russian-Invasion-Of-Ukraine-220520-129.html Fri, 20 May 2022 10:42:22 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Russia-Rewrites-The-Art-of-by-Pepe-Escobar-Economic_Financial-Genocide_President-Joe-Biden_Russian-Invasion-Of-Ukraine-220520-129.html Pepe Escobar Hybrid War is being fought predominantly in the economic/financial battleground and the pain dial for the collective West will only go up. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Death-by-a-Thousand-Cuts--by-Pepe-Escobar-Military-War-Strategy_NATO_Russian-Invasion-Of-Ukraine_Ukraine-220516-603.html Mon, 16 May 2022 16:03:08 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Death-by-a-Thousand-Cuts--by-Pepe-Escobar-Military-War-Strategy_NATO_Russian-Invasion-Of-Ukraine_Ukraine-220516-603.html Pepe Escobar Moscow is spending way less than the NATO contingent in the Ukrainian theater. NATO has already wasted $50 billion - and counting - while the Russians spent $4 billion, give or take. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Empire-of-Bioweapon-Lies--by-Pepe-Escobar-Bioweapons_Lies_Ukraine_War-In-Ukraine-220515-316.html Sun, 15 May 2022 08:56:05 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Empire-of-Bioweapon-Lies--by-Pepe-Escobar-Bioweapons_Lies_Ukraine_War-In-Ukraine-220515-316.html Pepe Escobar An ongoing U.S. bioweapons program in Ukraine was one of the Top Three reasons that led to the launch of Operation Z, https://www.opednews.com/articles/Empire-of-Bioweapon-Lies-by-Pepe-Escobar-Bioweaponry_Bioweapons_NATO_Nuclear-220513-160.html Fri, 13 May 2022 20:45:27 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Empire-of-Bioweapon-Lies-by-Pepe-Escobar-Bioweaponry_Bioweapons_NATO_Nuclear-220513-160.html Pepe Escobar An ongoing U.S. bioweapons program in Ukraine was one of the Top Three reasons that led to the launch of Operation Z side by side with preventing an imminent NATO managed blitzkrieg against Donbass and Kiev's desire to restart a nuclear weapons program. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Megalopolis-x-Russia-Tota-by-Pepe-Escobar-Neocons_Neoliberalism_Russian-Foreign-Policy_War-In-Ukraine-220508-184.html Sun, 08 May 2022 08:37:38 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Megalopolis-x-Russia-Tota-by-Pepe-Escobar-Neocons_Neoliberalism_Russian-Foreign-Policy_War-In-Ukraine-220508-184.html Pepe Escobar After careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the "indispensable nation".----History may eventually register, 77 years after the end of WWII, that neocon/neoliberalcon psychos in Washington silos instigating an inter-Slavic war by ordering Kiev to launch a blitzkrieg against Donbass was the spark that led to the Fall of the U.S. Empire. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Total-War-to-Cancel-Ru-by-Pepe-Escobar-Anti-Russian-Propaganda_Blame-Russia_China-Russia-Alliance_Iran-Russia-And-China-220410-948.html Sun, 10 Apr 2022 23:55:26 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Total-War-to-Cancel-Ru-by-Pepe-Escobar-Anti-Russian-Propaganda_Blame-Russia_China-Russia-Alliance_Iran-Russia-And-China-220410-948.html Pepe Escobar Vast swathes of NATOstan have been corralled into behaving like a Russophobic lynch mob. No dissent is tolerated. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Rublegas--The-World-s-N-by-Pepe-Escobar-Chinese-President-Xi-Jinping_Global-Reserve-Currency_Iran_Muamar-Al-Gaddafi-220404-660.html Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:04:27 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Rublegas--The-World-s-N-by-Pepe-Escobar-Chinese-President-Xi-Jinping_Global-Reserve-Currency_Iran_Muamar-Al-Gaddafi-220404-660.html Pepe Escobar This gas-for-rubles mechanism - call it Rublegas - is just the first concrete building block in the construction of an alternative financial/monetary system in tandem with many other mechanisms. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Meet-the-New-Resource-Base-by-Pepe-Escobar-Belt-Road-Initiative-China-Trillion-Dollar-Plan_Dollar_Petrodollar_Petroyuan-220402-392.html Sat, 02 Apr 2022 12:32:41 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Meet-the-New-Resource-Base-by-Pepe-Escobar-Belt-Road-Initiative-China-Trillion-Dollar-Plan_Dollar_Petrodollar_Petroyuan-220402-392.html Pepe Escobar A new reality is being formed - the unipolar world is irrevocably becoming a thing of the past, a multipolar one is taking shape. https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Mariupol-Will-Become-a-by-Pepe-Escobar-Chinese-President-Xi-Jinping_Eurasian-Economic-Union_Eurasian-Powers_Greater-Eurasia-220329-615.html Tue, 29 Mar 2022 18:13:41 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Mariupol-Will-Become-a-by-Pepe-Escobar-Chinese-President-Xi-Jinping_Eurasian-Economic-Union_Eurasian-Powers_Greater-Eurasia-220329-615.html Pepe Escobar Mariupol should expect to become one of the key hubs of a boom in north-south routes - INSTC across Russia and linking with the 'stans' - as well as major BRI upgrades east-west as well as sub-BRI corridors. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Make-Nazism-Great-Again-by-Pepe-Escobar-Azov-Battalion_Nazis_War-In-Ukraine-220325-46.html Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:01:47 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Make-Nazism-Great-Again-by-Pepe-Escobar-Azov-Battalion_Nazis_War-In-Ukraine-220325-46.html Pepe Escobar Azov was sent a last ultimatum: surrender until midnight - or else, as in a take no prisoners highway to hell.----That implies a major game-changer in the Ukrainian battlefield; Mariupol is finally about to be thoroughly denazified - as the Azov contingent long entrenched in the city and using civilians as human shields were their most hardened fighting force. https://www.opednews.com/articles/All-That-Glitters-Is-Not-N-by-Pepe-Escobar-Russia-Ukraine_Russian-Invasion-Of-Ukraine_Ukraine_War-In-Ukraine-220318-431.html Fri, 18 Mar 2022 15:38:26 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/All-That-Glitters-Is-Not-N-by-Pepe-Escobar-Russia-Ukraine_Russian-Invasion-Of-Ukraine_Ukraine_War-In-Ukraine-220318-431.html Pepe Escobar The "rules-based international order" - as in "our way or the highway" - is unraveling much faster than anyone could have predicted. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Cutting-through-the-fog-ma-by-Pepe-Escobar-Putin-And-Ukraine_Russian-Invasion-Of-Ukraine_Ukraine_Ukraine-Coup-220311-21.html Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:30:22 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Cutting-through-the-fog-ma-by-Pepe-Escobar-Putin-And-Ukraine_Russian-Invasion-Of-Ukraine_Ukraine_Ukraine-Coup-220311-21.html Pepe Escobar Neo-Nazis are doing exactly what ISIS/Daesh did in Syria - hiding behind civilians taken as hostages. https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Russia-Will-Counterpun-by-Pepe-Escobar-Dollar_Ruble_Russia_Swift-Bank-220305-756.html Sat, 05 Mar 2022 07:20:30 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Russia-Will-Counterpun-by-Pepe-Escobar-Dollar_Ruble_Russia_Swift-Bank-220305-756.html Pepe Escobar Only self-sufficiency affords total independence. And the Big Picture has also been keenly understood by the Global South. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Follow-the-Money--How-Rus-by-Pepe-Escobar-Central-Banks_Chinese-President-Xi-Jinping_Follow-The-Money_Oil-Cost-Of---220301-583.html Tue, 01 Mar 2022 15:51:14 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Follow-the-Money--How-Rus-by-Pepe-Escobar-Central-Banks_Chinese-President-Xi-Jinping_Follow-The-Money_Oil-Cost-Of---220301-583.html Pepe Escobar A number of Russian banks are already connected to China's CIPS system. For instance if someone wants to buy Russian oil and gas with CIPS payment must be in the Chinese yuan currency. CIPS is independent of SWIFT. https://www.opednews.com/articles/From-the-Black-Sea-to-the-by-Pepe-Escobar-Putin-And-Ukraine_Ukraine_War-In-Ukraine_Zelensky-Comedian-Elected-President-Of-Ukraine-220224-400.html Fri, 25 Feb 2022 08:00:01 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/From-the-Black-Sea-to-the-by-Pepe-Escobar-Putin-And-Ukraine_Ukraine_War-In-Ukraine_Zelensky-Comedian-Elected-President-Of-Ukraine-220224-400.html Pepe Escobar This is what happens when a bunch of ragged hyenas, jackals and tiny rodents poke The Bear: a new geopolitical order is born in breathtaking speed. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-birth-of-the-baby-twin-by-Pepe-Escobar-NATO_Ukraine_War-In-Ukraine-220224-858.html Thu, 24 Feb 2022 13:18:19 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-birth-of-the-baby-twin-by-Pepe-Escobar-NATO_Ukraine_War-In-Ukraine-220224-858.html Pepe Escobar (Written this morning in Istanbul, BEFORE Putin buried the Minsk agreements. Everything else - and beyond - stands.)----History will register that the birth of the baby twins - Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics - only a few hours before 2/22/22, was simultaneous to the birth of the real, 21st century multipolar world. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Birth-of-the-Baby-Twin-by-Pepe-Escobar-Indivisible_Putin-And-Ukraine_Russia_Russia-Bashing-220222-241.html Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:14:27 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Birth-of-the-Baby-Twin-by-Pepe-Escobar-Indivisible_Putin-And-Ukraine_Russia_Russia-Bashing-220222-241.html Pepe Escobar "You don't believe in the principle of indivisible security? Fine. Now we dictate the security rhythm". https://www.opednews.com/articles/This-Is-How-the-U-S-Does-by-Pepe-Escobar-Cowboy-Diplomacy_Dialogue_Diplomacy_President-Joe-Biden-220114-927.html Fri, 14 Jan 2022 15:21:49 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/This-Is-How-the-U-S-Does-by-Pepe-Escobar-Cowboy-Diplomacy_Dialogue_Diplomacy_President-Joe-Biden-220114-927.html Pepe Escobar Washington will not consider Russian proposals on no expansion of NATO and has no intention of even discussing the idea. So much for "dialogue". https://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Putin-Really-Told-Bid-by-Pepe-Escobar-Agreement_Biden-Policy_Biden-Putin-Summit_Diplomacy-220102-418.html Sun, 02 Jan 2022 10:36:05 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Putin-Really-Told-Bid-by-Pepe-Escobar-Agreement_Biden-Policy_Biden-Putin-Summit_Diplomacy-220102-418.html Pepe Escobar The root cause of all this drama, absent from any NATO narrative, is straightforward - Kiev simply refuses to respect the February 2015 Minsk Agreement. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Pepe-Escobar-Afghanistan-by-Pepe-Escobar-Follow-The-Money_Money-And-Power_Money-Buys-Power_NATO-210827-538.html Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:20:05 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Pepe-Escobar-Afghanistan-by-Pepe-Escobar-Follow-The-Money_Money-And-Power_Money-Buys-Power_NATO-210827-538.html Pepe Escobar With the fall of Kabul, Pepe Escobar says it's becoming clear that financial soft power tactics may be even more deadly than a NATO occupation. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Iran-embraces-its-Eurasian-by-Pepe-Escobar-Eurasian-Union_Iran_Iran-Election_Iran-Russia-And-China-210810-607.html Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:58:53 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Iran-embraces-its-Eurasian-by-Pepe-Escobar-Eurasian-Union_Iran_Iran-Election_Iran-Russia-And-China-210810-607.html Pepe Escobar Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi was sworn in as the eightth president of Iran this Thursday at the Majlis (Parliament), two days after being formally endorsed by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Tragedy-of-the-U-S-De-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-Politics_People-Henry-Kissinger_War-With-China-210514-905.html Fri, 14 May 2021 10:29:29 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Tragedy-of-the-U-S-De-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-Politics_People-Henry-Kissinger_War-With-China-210514-905.html Pepe Escobar At a recent forum in Arizona, referring to the festering, larger than life Sino-American clash, Henry the K. said, "It's the biggest problem for America; it's the biggest problem for the world. Because if we can't solve that, then the risk is that all over the world a kind of cold war will develop between China and the United States." https://www.opednews.com/articles/PEPE-ESCOBAR-The-Raging-T-by-Pepe-Escobar-2020_Amazon_Books_Capitalism-210316-845.html Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:20:38 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/PEPE-ESCOBAR-The-Raging-T-by-Pepe-Escobar-2020_Amazon_Books_Capitalism-210316-845.html Pepe Escobar Pepe Escobar's new book "Raging Twenties: Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism" tells the story of a new phase of the U.S. empire. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Shape-of-Things-to-Com-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_China-Investment-Corp_China-Politics_Covid-19-210308-327.html Mon, 08 Mar 2021 14:19:57 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Shape-of-Things-to-Com-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_China-Investment-Corp_China-Politics_Covid-19-210308-327.html Pepe Escobar On foreign policy, Li could not draw a sharper contrast with the Hegemon: "China will pursue an independent foreign policy of peace" and will "promote the building of a new type of international relations." https://www.opednews.com/articles/9-11-Was-the-Prelude-1-6-by-Pepe-Escobar-America_Coup_Deplorables_Trump-210115-624.html Fri, 15 Jan 2021 11:08:21 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/9-11-Was-the-Prelude-1-6-by-Pepe-Escobar-America_Coup_Deplorables_Trump-210115-624.html Pepe Escobar 9/11 opened the gates to the Patriot Act, whose core had already been written way back in 1994. 1/6 opens the gate to the War on Domestic Terror and the Patriot Act from Hell, 2.0, on steroids. https://www.opednews.com/articles/US-Hits-Search-and-Destro-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-Energy-Investment-Corp_China-New-Silk-Roads_China-Politics_Pentagon-201214-198.html Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:36:13 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/US-Hits-Search-and-Destro-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-Energy-Investment-Corp_China-New-Silk-Roads_China-Politics_Pentagon-201214-198.html Pepe Escobar Seven years after being launched by President Xi Jinping, first in Astana and then in Jakarta, the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) increasingly drive the American plutocratic oligarchy completely nuts. https://www.opednews.com/articles/No-escape-from-our-techno-by-Pepe-Escobar-Computers_Digital_Hackers_World-Issues-201206-881.html Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:10:29 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/No-escape-from-our-techno-by-Pepe-Escobar-Computers_Digital_Hackers_World-Issues-201206-881.html Pepe Escobar The Digital Age was crucially associated with right-wing ideology from the very start. To break down Control, we must be able to hack into and disrupt its core programs. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Can-You-Smell-What-the-Chi-by-Pepe-Escobar-Chinese-Central-Committee-201102-820.html Sun, 01 Nov 2020 20:54:02 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Can-You-Smell-What-the-Chi-by-Pepe-Escobar-Chinese-Central-Committee-201102-820.html Pepe Escobar 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 Communist Party (CPC) Central Committee, which started this past Monday in Beijing. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Make-America-Jeffersonian-by-Pepe-Escobar-American-Deception_American-Presidents_American_History_Americans-For-Responsible-Leadership-201024-1.html Sat, 24 Oct 2020 17:52:24 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Make-America-Jeffersonian-by-Pepe-Escobar-American-Deception_American-Presidents_American_History_Americans-For-Responsible-Leadership-201024-1.html Pepe Escobar The whole planet has every reason to be terminally puzzled at how all those lofty Enlightenment ideals Thomas Jefferson embedded in the 1776 Declaration of Independence ended up with...Trump vs. Biden. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Will-Confucius-marry-Marx-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_Chinese-Central-Committee_Chinese-President-Xi-Jinping_Marxism-201013-433.html Mon, 12 Oct 2020 21:19:28 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Will-Confucius-marry-Marx-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_Chinese-Central-Committee_Chinese-President-Xi-Jinping_Marxism-201013-433.html Pepe Escobar China is widely accused by the West of lack of democratic legitimacy exactly as it enjoys a four-decade, sustainable, history-making economic boom. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Empire-s-mask-slips-at-Jul-by-Pepe-Escobar-Julian-Assange_Prosecution_Reporters_Wikileaks-200920-847.html Sat, 19 Sep 2020 20:33:26 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Empire-s-mask-slips-at-Jul-by-Pepe-Escobar-Julian-Assange_Prosecution_Reporters_Wikileaks-200920-847.html Pepe Escobar Julian Assange is being condemned for revealing imperial war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Definitive-Eurasian-allian-by-Pepe-Escobar-Alliances_China_Covid-19_Iran-200831-773.html Sun, 30 Aug 2020 21:06:46 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Definitive-Eurasian-allian-by-Pepe-Escobar-Alliances_China_Covid-19_Iran-200831-773.html Pepe Escobar China is meticulously planning all its crucial geopolitical and geoeconomic moves all the way to 2030 and beyond. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Everything-going-according-by-Pepe-Escobar-2020_China_China-Politics_Cold-War-200827-835.html Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:39:53 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Everything-going-according-by-Pepe-Escobar-2020_China_China-Politics_Cold-War-200827-835.html Pepe Escobar The contours of China's long-term strategy for the new Cold War are quickly coming into view. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Who-profits-from-the-Beiru-by-Pepe-Escobar-Beirut_Explosion_Lebanon-200809-753.html Sun, 09 Aug 2020 17:02:39 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Who-profits-from-the-Beiru-by-Pepe-Escobar-Beirut_Explosion_Lebanon-200809-753.html Pepe Escobar Making the case that the explosion resulted from an attack. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Iran-and-China-Turbo-Charg-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_China-Iran-Russia-Alliance_China-New-Silk-Roads_Iran-200713-123.html Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:36:37 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Iran-and-China-Turbo-Charg-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_China-Iran-Russia-Alliance_China-New-Silk-Roads_Iran-200713-123.html Pepe Escobar Two of the US's top "strategic threats" are getting closer and closer within the scope of the New Silk Roads -- the leading 21st century project of economic integration across Eurasia. The Deep State will not be amused. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Barbarism-Begins-at-Home-by-Pepe-Escobar-Barbarism_Caesar_China_Hezbollah-200708-218.html Wed, 08 Jul 2020 15:40:19 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Barbarism-Begins-at-Home-by-Pepe-Escobar-Barbarism_Caesar_China_Hezbollah-200708-218.html Pepe Escobar Greeks thought it was morally uplifting to help friends and repel enemies, and in the latter case Greeks had to enslave them. So Greeks should by definition rule barbarians. https://www.opednews.com/articles/PEPE-ESCOBAR-The-India-Ch-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_India-Pakistan-Conflict_Iran_Military-200628-583.html Sat, 27 Jun 2020 20:55:46 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/PEPE-ESCOBAR-The-India-Ch-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_India-Pakistan-Conflict_Iran_Military-200628-583.html Pepe Escobar The Indo-China border is a strategic chessboard and it's gotten way more complex. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Nixon-Trump-vs-the-Strate-by-Pepe-Escobar-Amazon_Antifa_Racism_Strategy-200620-230.html Sat, 20 Jun 2020 09:15:02 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Nixon-Trump-vs-the-Strate-by-Pepe-Escobar-Amazon_Antifa_Racism_Strategy-200620-230.html Pepe Escobar What we have is a do-or-die clash of models: MAGA against an exclusivist Fed/Wall Street/Silicon Valley-controlled system. Teflon Trump should never be underestimated. The Deep State may even realize he's more useful than they think. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Syria-in-Seattle-Commune-by-Pepe-Escobar-Antifa_Black-Lives-Matter_FBI_Occupy-Seattle-200613-865.html Sat, 13 Jun 2020 13:36:56 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Syria-in-Seattle-Commune-by-Pepe-Escobar-Antifa_Black-Lives-Matter_FBI_Occupy-Seattle-200613-865.html Pepe Escobar When will "regime forces" strike -- in this case without Russian air cover? After all, as dictated by Secretary Esper, it's up to the Pentagon to "dominate the battlefield." https://www.opednews.com/articles/China-updates-its-Art-of-by-Pepe-Escobar-America_China_China-Investment-Corp_China-Politics-200521-881.html Thu, 21 May 2020 19:27:40 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/China-updates-its-Art-of-by-Pepe-Escobar-America_China_China-Investment-Corp_China-Politics-200521-881.html Pepe Escobar A toxic racism-meets-anti-communism matrix is responsible for the predominant anti-Chinese sentiment across the US, encompassing at least 66% of the whole population. Trump instinctively seized it - and repackaged it as his re-election campaign theme, fully approved by Steve Bannon. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-deeper-roots-of-Chines-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_Demonization_Dominance_Iran-200506-464.html Tue, 05 May 2020 21:12:03 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-deeper-roots-of-Chines-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_Demonization_Dominance_Iran-200506-464.html Pepe Escobar The US hybrid war against China is bound to go on frenetic overdrive, as economic reports are already identifying Covid-19 as the tipping point when the Asian -- actually Eurasian -- century truly began. https://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Did-U-S-Intel-Really-by-Pepe-Escobar-Corona-Virus-Coronavirus-Covid-19-200424-368.html Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:56:18 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Did-U-S-Intel-Really-by-Pepe-Escobar-Corona-Virus-Coronavirus-Covid-19-200424-368.html Pepe Escobar The burning question is inevitable: how could the NCMI possibly know all about a viral pandemic, still in November, when Chinese doctors positively identified the first cases of a new type of pneumonia only on December 26? U.S. Senators dumping stocks after a CDC briefing; more than 1,300 CEOs abandoning their cushy perches in 2019, "forecasting" total market collapse; the Fed pouring helicopter money already in Sept. https://www.opednews.com/articles/COVID-19-Confucius-is-Win-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_Confucius_Coronavirus-Pandemic_Covid-19-200417-305.html Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:42:59 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/COVID-19-Confucius-is-Win-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_Confucius_Coronavirus-Pandemic_Covid-19-200417-305.html Pepe Escobar Compare hundreds of millions of Asians' serene response to the coronavirus crisis with the West's fear, panic and hysteria, writes Pepe Escobar. https://www.opednews.com/articles/China-rolls-out-the-Health-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-New-Silk-Roads_China-Politics_Covid-19_Doctors-200403-616.html Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:18:08 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/China-rolls-out-the-Health-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-New-Silk-Roads_China-Politics_Covid-19_Doctors-200403-616.html Pepe Escobar In the Belt and Road framework, China is supplying much of the world -- including virus-hit Europe --with medicine and healthcare items https://www.opednews.com/articles/Ground-Control-to-Planet-L-by-Pepe-Escobar-Corona-Virus-Coronavirus-Covid-19_Covid-19-200403-80.html Thu, 02 Apr 2020 22:54:30 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Ground-Control-to-Planet-L-by-Pepe-Escobar-Corona-Virus-Coronavirus-Covid-19_Covid-19-200403-80.html Pepe Escobar Ground Control to Planet Lockdown: This Is Only a Test - ----Escobar lists some of the agendas that are being floated in preparation for future clampdowns. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-France-is-hiding-a-che-by-Pepe-Escobar-Chloroquine_France_Frances-Fox-Piven_Tsunami-200328-903.html Sat, 28 Mar 2020 13:47:12 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-France-is-hiding-a-che-by-Pepe-Escobar-Chloroquine_France_Frances-Fox-Piven_Tsunami-200328-903.html Pepe Escobar What's going on in the fifth largest economy in the world arguably points to a major collusion scandal in which the French government is helping Big Pharma to profit from the expansion of Covid-19. Informed French citizens are absolutely furious about it. https://www.opednews.com/articles/China-locked-in-hybrid-war-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_China-And-Hong-Kong_Coronavirus_Covid-19-200318-569.html Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:40:45 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/China-locked-in-hybrid-war-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_China-And-Hong-Kong_Coronavirus_Covid-19-200318-569.html Pepe Escobar For the first time since the start of Deng Xiaoping's reforms in 1978, Beijing openly regards the US as a threat, as stated a month ago by Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference during the peak of the fight against coronavirus. https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-black-swans-are-shapin-by-Pepe-Escobar-Black-Panther-Party_King-Salman-Of-Saudi-Arabia_OPEC_Oil-200315-12.html Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:26:00 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-black-swans-are-shapin-by-Pepe-Escobar-Black-Panther-Party_King-Salman-Of-Saudi-Arabia_OPEC_Oil-200315-12.html Pepe Escobar China has gone full Nietzsche about to prove that whatever does not kill you makes you stronger when it comes to a "people's war" against Covid-19. On the US front, there's scant hope that the gleaming Black "helicopter money" Hawk will crash down for good. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Putin-saves-Erdogan-from-h-by-Pepe-Escobar-NATO_Putin_Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan_Syria-200308-604.html Sat, 07 Mar 2020 19:37:59 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Putin-saves-Erdogan-from-h-by-Pepe-Escobar-NATO_Putin_Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan_Syria-200308-604.html Pepe Escobar A predictable feature of the new ceasefire is that both Moscow and Ankara part of the Astana peace process, alongside Tehran remain committed to maintaining the "territorial integrity and sovereignty" of Syria. Once again, there's no guarantee that Erdogan will abide. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Afghanistan-peace-dea-by-Pepe-Escobar-Afghanistan-Warlords_Iran_Negotiation_Peace-200226-948.html Wed, 26 Feb 2020 18:12:19 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Afghanistan-peace-dea-by-Pepe-Escobar-Afghanistan-Warlords_Iran_Negotiation_Peace-200226-948.html Pepe Escobar As far as Afghanistan is concerned, with or without a deal, the US military have no intention to go anywhere. They want to stay whatever it takes. Afghanistan is a priceless Greater Middle East base to deploy hybrid war techniques. https://www.opednews.com/articles/No-Weapon-Left-Behind-The-by-Pepe-Escobar-American-Capitalism_American-Culture_American-Hegenomy_China-200223-358.html Sat, 22 Feb 2020 19:26:36 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/No-Weapon-Left-Behind-The-by-Pepe-Escobar-American-Capitalism_American-Culture_American-Hegenomy_China-200223-358.html Pepe Escobar Inexorably, year after year since the start of the millennium, the U.S. share of the global economy shrinks while China's increases. China is already the key hub of the global economy and the leading trade partner of nearly 130 nations. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Roots-of-American-Demo-by-Pepe-Escobar-American-Foreign-Policy_American-Hegenomy_American-Muslims_Demonization-200121-9.html Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:37:39 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Roots-of-American-Demo-by-Pepe-Escobar-American-Foreign-Policy_American-Hegenomy_American-Muslims_Demonization-200121-9.html Pepe Escobar The role of the politician in democracies seems not to be to try to understand anything but simply carry out the agenda of the elites who own them." Calling all informed souls: the debate is on. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Battle-of-the-Ages-to-Stop-by-Pepe-Escobar-Agents_Eurasian-Union_Iran_NATO-200116-75.html Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:40:27 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Battle-of-the-Ages-to-Stop-by-Pepe-Escobar-Agents_Eurasian-Union_Iran_NATO-200116-75.html Pepe Escobar Everyone needs and wants Iran connectivity. For obvious reasons, since the Persian empire, this is the privileged hub for all Central Asian trade routes. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Intel-Sources-Predict-Trum-by-Pepe-Escobar-Foreign-Policy-Failure-Iran_Iran-War-200108-339.html Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:43:50 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Intel-Sources-Predict-Trum-by-Pepe-Escobar-Foreign-Policy-Failure-Iran_Iran-War-200108-339.html Pepe Escobar Iran responded to Trump's assassination of their general with a precision bombing of an American base in Iraq. The response at once demonstrates Iran's technical capability and resolve to retaliate, but also demonstrates restraint. No one was killed. A "top US intel source" says that Trump is looking for ways to de-escalate the confrontation. https://www.opednews.com/articles/US-Kick-Starts-Raging-20s-by-Pepe-Escobar-Assassination_Iran_Iran-Versus-Israel_Iranian-Foreign-Minister-Javad-Zarif-200105-814.html Sun, 05 Jan 2020 11:32:35 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/US-Kick-Starts-Raging-20s-by-Pepe-Escobar-Assassination_Iran_Iran-Versus-Israel_Iranian-Foreign-Minister-Javad-Zarif-200105-814.html Pepe Escobar Iraq is the preferred battleground of a proxy war against Iran that may now metastasize into hot war, with devastating consequences. https://www.opednews.com/articles/In-the-Footsteps-of-Xuanza-by-Pepe-Escobar-Ancient-Silk-Road_Buddhist_China_Xinjiang-200103-990.html Fri, 03 Jan 2020 13:15:28 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/In-the-Footsteps-of-Xuanza-by-Pepe-Escobar-Ancient-Silk-Road_Buddhist_China_Xinjiang-200103-990.html Pepe Escobar This journey into the past also reaches the heart of 21st century China's New Silk Roads strategy, says Pepe Escobar in this photo and text reportage from Central Asia. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Trials--Tribulations-of-C-by-Pepe-Escobar-Central-Asia_Trials-191205-129.html Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:25:04 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Trials--Tribulations-of-C-by-Pepe-Escobar-Central-Asia_Trials-191205-129.html Pepe Escobar Pepe Escobar reports on the pros and cons of being the "Heartland" in the 21st century. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Iran-s-Only-Crime-Is-We-D-by-Pepe-Escobar-Iran_Iran-Nuclear-Deal_Sanctions_Starvation-191127-350.html Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:24:13 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Iran-s-Only-Crime-Is-We-D-by-Pepe-Escobar-Iran_Iran-Nuclear-Deal_Sanctions_Starvation-191127-350.html Pepe Escobar Pepe Escobar reports on a searing account by Iran's foreign minister of his country's relations with the U.S. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Released-Lula-in-Greatest-by-Pepe-Escobar-Corruption_Intercept_Lula_Military-191112-133.html Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:30:53 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Released-Lula-in-Greatest-by-Pepe-Escobar-Corruption_Intercept_Lula_Military-191112-133.html Pepe Escobar The predicament of the former Brazilian president shows how incendiary Brazil is at the moment, writes Pepe Escobar. And the Western mainstream media will make no effort whatsoever to explain the nasty, convoluted plot for a global audience. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Asia-s-Regional-Comprehens-by-Pepe-Escobar-ASEAN_Asia-pacific-Economic-Cooperation_China_Economic-Growth-191107-348.html Thu, 07 Nov 2019 11:30:08 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Asia-s-Regional-Comprehens-by-Pepe-Escobar-ASEAN_Asia-pacific-Economic-Cooperation_China_Economic-Growth-191107-348.html Pepe Escobar Summits come and go. But what just happened in Thailand will remain as another graphic illustration of myriad, concerted moves leading towards progressive, irreversible Asia and Eurasia integration. It's up to Modi to decide when and if to hop on the train. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Caliph-Closure--He-Died-L-by-Pepe-Escobar-Balkanization_Caliphate_Died-Like-A-Dog-Movie_Oil-191029-632.html Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:19:15 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Caliph-Closure--He-Died-L-by-Pepe-Escobar-Balkanization_Caliphate_Died-Like-A-Dog-Movie_Oil-191029-632.html Pepe Escobar Trump's victory-lap movie version buries the embarrassing story of deploying tanks to "protect" Syrian oilfields, writes Pepe Escobar. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tracking-foreign-interfere-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_Emigration_Foreign-Policy-Failures_Hong-Kong-191010-675.html Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:54:02 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tracking-foreign-interfere-by-Pepe-Escobar-China_Emigration_Foreign-Policy-Failures_Hong-Kong-191010-675.html Pepe Escobar Amid so much gloom, there may be a silver lining. And that concerns the Greater Bay Area project. My interlocutors tend to believe that after the storm ends and after carefully studying the situation for some months, Beijing will soon come up with a new plan to tighten Hong Kong's integration to the mainland's economy even more. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Crown-Prince-Mohammad-bin-by-Pepe-Escobar-Crown-Prince-Mohammed-Bin-Salman_Houthis_Saudi-Arabia_Yemen-Destruction-191004-985.html Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:25:02 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Crown-Prince-Mohammad-bin-by-Pepe-Escobar-Crown-Prince-Mohammed-Bin-Salman_Houthis_Saudi-Arabia_Yemen-Destruction-191004-985.html Pepe Escobar After Abqaiq and Operation Nasrallah, to say that MBS is wallowing in a vicious blowback swamp is an understatement. The relentless bombing of Yemen for over four years during his term as minister of defense is his Frankenstein baby. https://www.opednews.com/articles/On-the-Road-to-Interview-L-by-Pepe-Escobar-Black_sites_Brazilian-President-Dilma-Rousseff_Brazilian-President-Jair-Bolsonaro_Brazilian-President-Lula-Da-Silva-190909-872.html Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:39:33 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/On-the-Road-to-Interview-L-by-Pepe-Escobar-Black_sites_Brazilian-President-Dilma-Rousseff_Brazilian-President-Jair-Bolsonaro_Brazilian-President-Lula-Da-Silva-190909-872.html Pepe Escobar From Cambodia to Brazil and Argentina and back to Bangkok gave Pepe Escobar insights into the disastrous course his native land is taking. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Amazon-Burns-Amid-Brazil-s-by-Pepe-Escobar-Amazon-Fire_Brazil-Corruption_Brazilian-President-Jair-Bolsonaro_Brazilian-President-Jair-Bolsonaro-190902-23.html Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:06:03 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Amazon-Burns-Amid-Brazil-s-by-Pepe-Escobar-Amazon-Fire_Brazil-Corruption_Brazilian-President-Jair-Bolsonaro_Brazilian-President-Jair-Bolsonaro-190902-23.html Pepe Escobar Fires rage in the Amazon as Brazilian President Bolsonaro becomes a target of global indignation, writes Pepe Escobar. https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Tehran-Fits-into-Russi-by-Pepe-Escobar-Iran_Oil_Russia-china_Sanctions-190815-153.html Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:08:54 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Tehran-Fits-into-Russi-by-Pepe-Escobar-Iran_Oil_Russia-china_Sanctions-190815-153.html Pepe Escobar What the past few months have made crystal clear is how Russia-China's magnetic pull is attracting key Eurasia players Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. And make no mistake: As much as Tehran may be extremely proud of its political independence, it is reassuring to know that Iran is, and will continue to be, a definitive red line for Russia-China. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Attack-on-Iran-would-be-an-by-Pepe-Escobar-Iran_Iran-Russia-Alliance_Iran-Russia-And-China_NATO-190807-616.html Wed, 07 Aug 2019 15:23:23 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Attack-on-Iran-would-be-an-by-Pepe-Escobar-Iran_Iran-Russia-Alliance_Iran-Russia-And-China_NATO-190807-616.html Pepe Escobar The inevitable conclusion is that major SCO stakeholders Russia, China, India, Pakistan and, in the near future, Iran and Turkey will be major influencers on regional stability. The Pentagon will not be amused. https://www.opednews.com/articles/US-and-Iran-Stuck-on-Negot-by-Pepe-Escobar-Food_Iran_Iran-Embargo_Iran-War-190726-337.html Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:11:02 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/US-and-Iran-Stuck-on-Negot-by-Pepe-Escobar-Food_Iran_Iran-Embargo_Iran-War-190726-337.html Pepe Escobar Donald Trump says he's "okay either way," whether there's war with Iran and Tehran seems to be okay with that too, warns Pepe Escobar. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-un-submersible-US-Iran-by-Pepe-Escobar-Economic_Iran_Jcpoa_Oil-190706-48.html Fri, 05 Jul 2019 20:19:58 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-un-submersible-US-Iran-by-Pepe-Escobar-Economic_Iran_Jcpoa_Oil-190706-48.html Pepe Escobar Iran continues to export crude, by all means available, especially to Asia, with the National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC) predictably shutting off satellite tracking on its fleet. But, ominously, the deadline set by Tehran for the EU-3 to actively support the sale of Iranian crude expires this coming Sunday. That's a major cliffhanger. After that, the stalemate won't be submersible anymore. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Russia-India-China-will-be-by-Pepe-Escobar-Energy_Forum_Iran_Oil-190629-959.html Sat, 29 Jun 2019 10:50:40 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Russia-India-China-will-be-by-Pepe-Escobar-Energy_Forum_Iran_Oil-190629-959.html Pepe Escobar Putin has excelled as a go-between. He invited Modi to be the guest of honor at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok in early September. The thrust of the relationship is to show to Modi the benefits for India to actively join the larger Eurasia integration process instead of playing a supporting role in a Made in USA production. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Brazil-gate-is-Turning-int-by-Pepe-Escobar-Anti-corruption_Bananas_Intercept_International-190621-759.html Fri, 21 Jun 2019 16:41:16 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Brazil-gate-is-Turning-int-by-Pepe-Escobar-Anti-corruption_Bananas_Intercept_International-190621-759.html Pepe Escobar WikiLeaks had already revealed it from the start, when the NSA started spying on energy giant Petrobras and even Rousseff's smart phone. In parallel, countless nations and individuals have learned how the DOJ's self-attributed extra-territoriality allows it to go after anyone, anyhow, anywhere. It has never been about anti-corruption. This is American "justice" interfering in the full geopolitical and geo-economic spheres. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Trump-Now-Wants-Talks-by-Pepe-Escobar-Bilderberg_Conspiracy_Iran-Nuclear-Talks-190608-524.html Sat, 08 Jun 2019 12:29:24 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Trump-Now-Wants-Talks-by-Pepe-Escobar-Bilderberg_Conspiracy_Iran-Nuclear-Talks-190608-524.html Pepe Escobar The great Bilderberg secret of 2019 had to do with why, suddenly, the Trump administration has decided that it wants to talk to Iran "with no preconditions." In the case of the Strait of Hormuz being shut down, whatever the reason, Iran has the power to hammer the world financial system, by causing global trade in derivatives to be blown apart. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Clash-of-civilizations-o-by-Pepe-Escobar-Civilization_Crisis_Racism_Taoism-190521-657.html Tue, 21 May 2019 13:55:56 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Clash-of-civilizations-o-by-Pepe-Escobar-Civilization_Crisis_Racism_Taoism-190521-657.html Pepe Escobar What we're living now is not a clash of civilizations; it's a crisis of civilization. If the paradigm under which most of humanity barely survives is not changed -- and there's precious little evidence it will -- there won't be any civilizations left to clash. https://www.opednews.com/articles/US-China-the-hardcore-is-by-Pepe-Escobar-Economy_Investing_Tariffs-190514-375.html Tue, 14 May 2019 09:51:31 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/US-China-the-hardcore-is-by-Pepe-Escobar-Economy_Investing_Tariffs-190514-375.html Pepe Escobar The current hysteria over tariffs, the trade offensive, the demonization of BRI, Made in China 2025 and Huawei's 5G dominance, and all manner of disruptive Hybrid War tactics such as repeatedly claiming "freedom of navigation" in the South China Sea to progressive weaponizing of Taiwan. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Eagle-the-Bear-and-th-by-Pepe-Escobar-Aircraft_America_Bear_Carrier-190507-197.html Tue, 07 May 2019 17:28:50 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Eagle-the-Bear-and-th-by-Pepe-Escobar-Aircraft_America_Bear_Carrier-190507-197.html Pepe Escobar The eagle has conveniently forgotten that the original, Ancient Silk Road linked the dragon with the Roman empire for centuries -- with no interlopers outside of Eurasia, muses Pepe Escobar. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-New-Silk-Roads-reach-t-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-New-Silk-Roads_Economic_Putin_Russia-china-190429-872.html Mon, 29 Apr 2019 13:22:26 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-New-Silk-Roads-reach-t-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-New-Silk-Roads_Economic_Putin_Russia-china-190429-872.html Pepe Escobar The Belt and Road Forum in Beijing was a graphic demonstration of how tactical adjustments are essential to enhance the appeal of a complex overall strategy. Talk about a turbo-charged 4.0 version of the legendary Deng Xiaoping maxim "crossing the river while feeling the stones." https://www.opednews.com/articles/War-on-Iran-And-Calling-Am-by-Pepe-Escobar-Iran-Russia-Alliance_Iran-Russia-And-China_Oil_Sanctions-190425-341.html Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:35:59 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/War-on-Iran-And-Calling-Am-by-Pepe-Escobar-Iran-Russia-Alliance_Iran-Russia-And-China_Oil_Sanctions-190425-341.html Pepe Escobar Vast swathes of the West seem not to realize that if the Strait of Hormuz is shut down a global depression will follow, writes Pepe Escobar. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Deep-State-vs-WikiLea-by-Pepe-Escobar-Assange_Deep-State_Whistleblower_Wikileaks-190424-38.html Wed, 24 Apr 2019 08:15:23 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Deep-State-vs-WikiLea-by-Pepe-Escobar-Assange_Deep-State_Whistleblower_Wikileaks-190424-38.html Pepe Escobar If Julian Assange is ever to be extradited to the US, twothings for the moment are already crystal clear. The USG is obsessed to shut down WikiLeaks once and for all. And because of that, Julian Assange will never get a fair trial in the "so-called 'Espionage Court'" of the Eastern District of Virginia, as detailed by former CIA counter-terrorism officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou. https://www.opednews.com/articles/China-s-road-to-a-win-win-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-New-Silk-Roads_China-Politics_China-Russia-Alliance_Travel-190421-576.html Sun, 21 Apr 2019 09:45:58 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/China-s-road-to-a-win-win-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-New-Silk-Roads_China-Politics_China-Russia-Alliance_Travel-190421-576.html Pepe Escobar Beijing clinched a proverbial showering of BRI deals with 17 Arab nations, including Egypt, Lebanon and Oman. Not by accident, the forum this year was called Build the Belt and Road, Share Development and Prosperity. Up to 2018, 21 Arab nations had signed BRI memoranda of understanding. The US is the cracked outer shell. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bamiyan-Babylon-Palmyra-by-Pepe-Escobar-Catholic_Euro_France_Notre-dame-190416-793.html Tue, 16 Apr 2019 19:04:11 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bamiyan-Babylon-Palmyra-by-Pepe-Escobar-Catholic_Euro_France_Notre-dame-190416-793.html Pepe Escobar Notre-Dame basically survives on donations which pay the salaries of only 70 employees who need not only to supervise the masses of tourists but also to organize eight masses a day. The French state's proposal to minimize the ordeal; organize a beneficent lottery. That is; privatize what is a state commitment and obligation. https://www.opednews.com/articles/You-have-the-right-to-alwa-by-Pepe-Escobar-Assange_Journalism_Manning_Right-Wing-Hate-190413-894.html Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:17:03 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/You-have-the-right-to-alwa-by-Pepe-Escobar-Assange_Journalism_Manning_Right-Wing-Hate-190413-894.html Pepe Escobar Julian Assange is not a US citizen, he's an Australian. WikiLeaks is not a US-based media organization. If the US government gets Assange extradited, prosecuted and incarcerated, it will legitimize its right to go after anyone, anyhow, anywhere, anytime. Call it The Killing of Journalism. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-EU-bows-to-systemic-r-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-New-Silk-Roads_China-Politics_European-Union-190329-651.html Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:13:35 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-EU-bows-to-systemic-r-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-New-Silk-Roads_China-Politics_European-Union-190329-651.html Pepe Escobar Political Eurocrats are starting to realize that Europe cannot afford to become a battlefield in Cold War 2.0 between the US and Russia, cannot afford to become a hostage of Washington tearing up international law see, for instance, the destruction of the Iran nuclear deal and recognizing the occupied Golan Heights as part of Israel and cannot afford to become a victim of Washington's trade whims. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Empire-of-Chaos-in-Hybrid-by-Pepe-Escobar-Al-Qaeda_Brics_Chaos_Empire-190325-982.html Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:04:34 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Empire-of-Chaos-in-Hybrid-by-Pepe-Escobar-Al-Qaeda_Brics_Chaos_Empire-190325-982.html Pepe Escobar The Trump administration's foreign policy may be easily deconstructed as a crossover between The Sopranos and late-night comedy, writes Pepe Escobar. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Nazarbayev-s-Legacy-Wi-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-Russia-Alliance_Kazakhstan-President-Nursultan-Nazarbayev_Legacy_Putin-190324-490.html Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:32:26 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Nazarbayev-s-Legacy-Wi-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-Russia-Alliance_Kazakhstan-President-Nursultan-Nazarbayev_Legacy_Putin-190324-490.html Pepe Escobar At first, it sounded like a geopolitical bombshell: Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev, 78, in power since 1991, dramatically announced his resignation. The whole drama in fact walks and talks like a Central Asian remix of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's notorious motto in the film The Leopard: "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." https://www.opednews.com/articles/EU-dilemma-how-to-deal-wi-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-Investment-Corp_China-Politics_Huawei-190320-690.html Tue, 19 Mar 2019 20:54:08 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/EU-dilemma-how-to-deal-wi-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-Investment-Corp_China-Politics_Huawei-190320-690.html Pepe Escobar Beijing is praised for its support for the Iran nuclear deal, its role in the denuclearization of North Korea, its upcoming role in the peace process in Afghanistan and tackling the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. The real problem, predictably, is China's maritime claims in the South China Sea. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Eric-Hobsbawm-the-Joy-of-by-Pepe-Escobar-Books_Eric-Hobsbawm_History_Literature-190307-953.html Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:43:18 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Eric-Hobsbawm-the-Joy-of-by-Pepe-Escobar-Books_Eric-Hobsbawm_History_Literature-190307-953.html Pepe Escobar Hobsbawm's "Age of Extremes" turned him into a global superstar. But there are flaws. Essentially, the point of view is centered on Vienna, Berlin and London. There is no comprehensive analysis of the ascension of the American bourgeoisie, or the turbulence across East Asia. The book actually revolves around the history of the decline of a Western civilization that totally betrayed the 19th-century promise. https://www.opednews.com/articles/All-under-Heaven-China-s-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-Investment-Corp_China-Politics_History_International-190113-202.html Sun, 13 Jan 2019 10:08:31 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/All-under-Heaven-China-s-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-Investment-Corp_China-Politics_History_International-190113-202.html Pepe Escobar The Chinese challenge is unprecedented and no wonder Washington, in tandem with other Western elites, is stunned. In the end, it's a matter of positioning Tianxia as a superior promoter of "dynamic equilibrium" in international relations in comparison with the Westphalian system. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Chinese-scholar-offers-ins-by-Pepe-Escobar-Chinese-Liberation-Army_Chinese-President-Xi-Jinping_Decline_Progress-190108-780.html Mon, 07 Jan 2019 20:45:51 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Chinese-scholar-offers-ins-by-Pepe-Escobar-Chinese-Liberation-Army_Chinese-President-Xi-Jinping_Decline_Progress-190108-780.html Pepe Escobar The top story of 2019 and the years ahead will continue to revolve around the myriad, dangerous permutations of the economic ascent of China, the resurgence of nuclear superpower Russia and the decline of the US's global hegemony. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-new-Great-Game-on-the-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-New-Silk-Roads_China-Politics_Great-Power-Game_New-Silk-Road-181220-522.html Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:12:31 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-new-Great-Game-on-the-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-New-Silk-Roads_China-Politics_Great-Power-Game_New-Silk-Road-181220-522.html Pepe Escobar We are at the heart of Gilgit-Baltistan, in Pakistan's Northern Areas, or -- as legend rules, the Roof of the World. This is an area about 70,000 square kilometers (27,000 square miles) crammed with spectacular mountain ranges and amidst them, secluded pristine valleys and the largest glaciers outside of the Polar region.