Articles by Pepe Escobar – Asia Times
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Munich Conference Reveals East-West Divide
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
24 Feb 2020
19 Feb 2020 – Few postmodern political pantomimes have been more revealing than the hundreds of so-called “international decision-makers,” mostly Western, waxing lyrical, disgusted or nostalgic over “Westlessness” at the Munich Security Conference.
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China’s Virus Response Has Been ‘Breathtaking’
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
3 Feb 2020
30 Jan 2020 – Chinese scientists have already handed over to Russian counterparts the virus genome, with snap tests able to identify it in a human body within two hours. A Russia-China vaccine is under development.
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Pamir Highway: The Road on the Roof of the World (I)
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
23 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – This is arguably the ultimate road trip on earth. Marco Polo did it. All the legendary Silk Road explorers did it. Traveling the Pamir Highway back to back, as a harsh winter approaches, able to appreciate it in full, in silence and solitude, offers not only a historical plunge into the intricacies of the ancient Silk Road but a glimpse of what the future may bring in the form of the New Silk Roads.
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Cruising Pamir Highway, the Heart of the Heartland (II)
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
23 Dec 2019
14 Dec 2019 – A privileged microcosm of what is evolving as the intersection between the New Silk Roads and Greater Eurasia.
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New Silk Roads in Action at China-Kazakh Border
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
9 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019 – Central Asia, Between China and Europe, Is Bustling
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The RCEP Train Left the ASEAN Station Leaving India Behind
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
11 Nov 2019
5 Nov 2019 – Biggest story at the ASEAN Summit was convergence of moves for Asia integration through the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, leaving Delhi out for now.
→ read full articleCaliph Closure: ‘He Died Like a Dog’
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
4 Nov 2019
28 Oct 2019 – The “died as a dog” movie can also be interpreted as the liquidation of a formerly useful asset that was a valued component of the gift that keeps on giving, the never-ending Global War on Terror. Other scarecrows, and other movies, await. Trump’s victory-lap movie version buries the embarrassing story of deploying tanks to ‘protect’ Syrian oilfields.
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Kurds Face Stark Options after US Pullback
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
21 Oct 2019
14 Oct 2019 – In the annals of bombastic Trump tweets, this one is simply astonishing: here we have a President of the United States, on the record, unmasking the whole $8-trillion intervention in the Middle East as an endless war based on a “false premise.” No wonder the Pentagon is not amused. Forget an independent Kurdistan: They may have to do a deal with Damascus on sharing their area with Sunni Arab refugees.
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BRICS Was Created as a Tool of Attack: Lula
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
9 Sep 2019
29 Aug 2019 – In a wide-ranging, two-hour-plus, exclusive interview from a prison room in Curitiba in southern Brazil, former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva re-emerged for the first time, after more than 500 days in jail, and sent a clear message to the world.
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The Dragon Lays out Its Road Map, Denies Seeking Hegemony
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
5 Aug 2019
27 Jul 2019 – China’s ‘National Defense in the New Era’ white paper shows where the country aims to be by 2049. The key merit of China’s National Defense in the New Era, a white paper released by the State Council in Beijing, is to clear any remaining doubts about where the Middle Kingdom is coming from, and where it’s going to.
→ read full articleThe Inside Story of the Saudi Night of Long Knives
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
13 Nov 2017
6 Nov 2017 – Princes, ministers and a billionaire are ‘imprisoned’ in the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton while the Saudi Arabian Army is said to be in an uproar.
→ read full articleThe Pivot to China
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
13 Feb 2017
Trump may have already understood that a trade war is a lose-lose proposition. In the absence of an Asian economic version of NATO (the dead-in-the water Trans-Pacific Partnership), the emphasis will be on “vigilant” allies/semi-disguised vassals such as Japan, South Korea and Australia. Meantime, Beijing is delivering its strategic vision for a new Pax Sinica.
→ read full articleChina Rising – Have Grandmaster, Will Travel
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
22 Jun 2015
“The US cannot stop China’s rise. It just has to live with a bigger China, which will be completely novel for the US, as no country has ever been big enough to challenge its position. China will be able to do so in 20 to 30 years.”
→ read full articleU.S. Wakes Up to New (Silk) World Order
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
25 May 2015
15 May 2015 – The real Masters of the Universe in the U.S. are no weathermen, but arguably they’re starting to feel which way the wind is blowing. History may signal it all started with this week’s trip to Sochi, led by their paperboy, Secretary of State John Kerry, who met with Foreign Minister Lavrov and then with President Putin.
→ read full articleEurasia as We Knew It Is Dead
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
27 Apr 2015
Move over, Cold War 2.0. The real story, now and for the foreseeable future, is a new, integrated Eurasia forging ahead. China’s immensely ambitious New Silk Road project will keep intersecting with the Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union, a booming trade/commerce axis stretching from St. Petersburg to Shanghai.
→ read full articleWestward Ho on China’s Eurasia BRIC Road
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
30 Mar 2015
The real story is not how China will collapse, as peddled by David Shambaugh, the so-called second top China expert in the U.S. (who’s the first? Henry Kissinger?) This is a line that’s been soundly debunked. The real story is how the myriad aspects of the New Silk Road will be configuring a new Eurasian dream. Have vision, will travel. Bon voyage.
→ read full articleRussia, China Mock Divide and Rule
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
29 Dec 2014
Essentially, the Empire of Chaos is bluffing, using Europe as pawns. The Empire of Chaos is as lousy at chess as it is at history. What it excels in is in upping the ante to force Russia to back down. Russia won’t back down.
→ read full articleWashington Plays Russian Roulette
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
24 Nov 2014
The economically devastated EU is a joke; the only thing that counts for the US is NATO – and the overwhelming majority of its members are in the bag, sharing the prevailing mood in Washington of treating Putin as if he were Milosevic, Saddam Hussein or Gaddafi. There are no signs whatsoever Team Obama is willing to de-escalate.
→ read full articleChina’s Silky Road to Glory
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
17 Nov 2014
APEC once again has shown that the more geopolitics change, the more it won’t stay the same; as the exceptional dogs of war, inequality and divide and rule keep barking, the China-Russia pan-Eurasian caravan will keep going, going, going – further on down the (multipolar) road.
→ read full articleThe Caliph Fit to Join OPEC
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
3 Nov 2014
The Caliph’s oil prices are to die (be beheaded?) for; after all, he’s implementing the same low-price strategy concocted by the people he wants to dethrone, the House of Saud. And oh, the irony Top customers for The Caliph’s cheap oil happen to be “Sultan” Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Earthly paradise, aka Turkey – a North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally – and that King “Playstation” Abdullah II ibn al-Hussein’s domain impersonating a country, aka Jordan.
→ read full articleA Caliph in a Wilderness of Mirrors
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
27 Oct 2014
He’s invincible. He beheads. He smuggles. He conquers. He’s the ultimate jack-of-all-trades. No Tomahawk or Hellfire can touch him. He always gets what he wants; in Kobani; in Anbar province; with the House of Saud (which he wants to replace).
→ read full articleWill NATO Liberate Jihadistan?
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
15 Sep 2014
Caliph Ibrahim, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, self-declared leader of Islamic State, really sports a mean PR vein. So The Caliph is not exactly quaking in his Made-in-USA desert boots. He’s even dreaming of taking on the Slavic Caliph himself. How come Marvel Comics never thought about that?
→ read full articleNATO Attacks!
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
8 Sep 2014
You don’t need to be a neo-Foucault hooked on Orwellian/Panopticon practices to admire the hyper-democratic “ring of steel” crossing average roads, parks and even ringing castle walls to “protect” dozens of NATO heads of state and ministers in Newport, Wales. Once again, the battle lines are drawn. NATO vs SCO. NATO vs BRICS. NATO vs Global South. Therefore, NATO attacks!
→ read full articleNATO Is Desperate for War
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
11 Aug 2014
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is desperate; it is itching for a war in battlefield Ukraine at any cost. Let’s start with Pentagon supremo, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who has waxed lyrical over the Russian Bear’s “threat”:
→ read full articleCrime (Israel) and Punishment (Russia)
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
4 Aug 2014
Israel gets away with unlawful premeditated mass murder of civilians, while Russia gets framed for a (smaller-scale) airborne mass murder of civilians.
→ read full articleIt Was Putin’s Missile!
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
21 Jul 2014
And here’s the spin war verdict: the current Malaysia Airlines tragedy – the second in four months – is “terrorism” perpetrated by “pro-Russian separatists”, armed by Russia, and Vladimir Putin is the main culprit. End of story. Anyone who believes otherwise, shut up. Why? Because the CIA said so.
→ read full articleArab Spring, Jihad Summer
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
7 Jul 2014
So 13 years ago Washington crushed both al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Then the Taliban were reborn. Then came Shock and Awe. Then came “Mission Accomplished”. Then al-Qaeda was introduced in Iraq. Then al-Qaeda was dead because Osama bin Laden was dead. Then came ISIL. And now there’s IS. What’s not to like? If anyone thinks this whole racket is part of a new live Monty Python sketch ahead of their reunion gig this month in London, that’s because it is.
→ read full articleThe Future Visible in St Petersburg
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
2 Jun 2014
29 May 2014 – In more ways than one, last week heralded the birth of a Eurasian century at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum – the Russian answer to Davos. This is what Washington gets for over a decade of wars, incessant bullying, nasty sanctions and trillions of misspent dollars.
→ read full articleUkraine and the Grand Chessboard
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
28 Apr 2014
Ukraine is for all practical purposes broke. The Kremlin’s consistent position for the past three months has been to encourage the European Union to find a solution to Ukraine’s dire economic mess. Brussels did nothing. It was betting on regime change to the benefit of Germany’s heavyweight puppet Vladimir Klitschko, aka Klitsch The Boxer.
→ read full articleThe US-Russia Ukrainian Deal
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
7 Apr 2014
4 Apr 2014 – By the time you read this Russia will have invaded Ukraine. Well, that’s what the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, General Philip Breedlove, is spinning. Breedlove Supreme says the Russians are “ready to go” and could easily take over eastern Ukraine. Western corporate media have already dusted off their Kevlar vests.
→ read full articleRussia 1, Regime Changers 0
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
24 Mar 2014
The Obama administration’s “strategic” gambit to subcontract the State Department’s “Khaganate of Nulands” to extricate Ukraine from the Russian sphere of influence – and ultimately annex it to NATO – by instrumentalizing a coalition of willing neo-nazis and fascists with a central bank veneer (prime minister “Yats”), is in utter shambles.
→ read full articleThe New Great (Threat) Game in Eurasia
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
17 Mar 2014
In Ukraine, the West supported an unconstitutional putsch against an elected government perpetrated, among others, by fascist/neo-nazi storm troopers (Svoboda, Right Sector) instrumentalized by US intelligence. This is just the latest instance in the serial rape of “international law”.
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Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
10 Mar 2014
The endgame: Moscow controls an autonomous Crimea for free, and the US/EU “control”, or try to plunder, disaster capitalism-style, a back of beyond western Ukraine wasteland “managed” by a bunch of Western puppets and oligarchs, with a smatter of neo-nazis. So what is the Obama/Kerry strategic master duo to do? Start a nuclear war?
→ read full articleThe New US-Russia Cold War
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
17 Feb 2014
Meet the new (cold) war, same as the old (cold) war. Same same, but different. One day, it’s the myriad implications of Washington’s “pivoting” to Asia. Then, the denigration of all things Sochi. Yet Nulandgate – as in US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria “neo-con” Nuland uttering her famous “F**k the EU” – was way more serious. Not because of the “profanity” (praise the Lord!).
→ read full articleChina vs US ‘sea-to-shining-sea’
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
23 Dec 2013
The paper spelt it loudly; “If the American navy and air force always encroach near China’s doorstep, confrontation is bound to take place.”
→ read full articleThe Wahhabi-Likudnik War of Terror
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
25 Nov 2013
For the moment though, enough of Orwellian newspeak. What happened in Beirut was a terror attack, cheered by Israel, and fully enabled by Saudis; a graphic display by the Likudnik-House of Saud axis.
→ read full articleWhy France Is Playing ‘Stupid’ on Iran
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
18 Nov 2013
Torrents of bytes have already detailed how Israel routinely hijacks US foreign policy. Here’s yet one more graphic demonstration of how Wag the Dog works… Hollande is a joke. This week he’s on the cover of the Courrier International (headline: “The Art of the Fall”), with pan-European media judging him “incoherent”, “paralyzed” and “incompetent” (and these are the merciful epithets).
→ read full article‘Our’ Weaponized Wahhabi Bastards
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
21 Oct 2013
Life is good if you’re a member of the Gulf Counter-revolution Club, officially known as Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). You can crush the Arab Spring at will. You can hire goons all across dar-al-Islam to advance a sectarian Sunni-Shi’ite divide. You can be deeply implicated in the destruction of Syria. You can treat a significant part of your own population as third-class citizens. Not only you get away with it; you get rewarded with expensive toys. And in one particular case – Saudi Arabia – even with a two-year seat at the UN Security Council.
→ read full articleThe (Farcical) Emperor Is Naked
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
10 Sep 2013
There is nothing tragic about the Obama presidency, capable of drawing the analytical talents of a neo-Plutarch or a neo-Gibbon. This is more like a Pirandello farce, a sort of Character in Search of an Author.
→ read full articleHi, I’m Your New Axis of Evil
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
26 Aug 2013
The winner, as it stands, is the House of Saud/Israel/ Pentagon axis. How did they pull it off? With Israel possibly mulling another invasion of Lebanon; the Kerry “peace process” an excuse for more settlements in Palestine; Bandar Bush back practicing the dark arts; the pre-empting of any possible solution to the Iranian nuclear dossier; Egypt in civil war; Syria and also Iraq bleeding to death, what’s left is the certified proliferation of all kinds of axes, and all kinds of evil.
→ read full articleAl-Qaeda to the Rescue
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
12 Aug 2013
Imagine a rushed crisis meeting at the highest levels of the Orwellian/Panopticon complex: “Gentlemen, we have a golden opportunity here. We are under siege by defector spy Edward Snowden – liberated by the Soviets – and that terrorist hack Greenwald. Snowden may be winning: even among US public opinion, there’s a growing perception we may be more of a threat than al-Qaeda. So we must show we are vigilantly protecting our freedoms. Yes; we’re gonna scream Terra, Terra, Terra!”
→ read full articleMeet a Moderate Syrian Insurgent
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
22 Jul 2013
You see how hard is the life of a moderate rebel? Not only we have to fight the despicable dictator in Damascus – we fight Shi’ite apostates and we even fight terrorists! Oh, Amrika! The terrorists are among us as well, just as they are among you.
→ read full articleMeet the ‘Friends of Jihad’
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
10 Jun 2013
Western politicos love to shed swamps of crocodile tears about “the Syrian people” and congratulate themselves within the “Friends of Syria” framework for defending them from “tyranny”. Well, the “Syrian people” have spoken. Roughly 70% support the government of Bashar al-Assad. Another 20% are neutral. And only 10% are aligned with the Western-supported “rebels”, including those of the kidnapping, lung-eating, beheading jihadi kind.
→ read full articleA Post-History Strip Tease
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
29 Apr 2013
Slavoj Zizek posed the key question in terms of the Decline of the West. The (closet) winner is “capitalism with Asian values’ – which has nothing to do with Asian people but everything with the tendency of contemporary capitalism to suspend democracy”. French philosopher Jean Claude Michea argues that post-modern politics has become a negative art – defining the least bad society possible. That’s how liberalism became, as neoliberalism, the “politics of lesser evil”. Well, “lesser evil” for who’s in control, of course, and damn the rest.
→ read full articleThe FBI Boston-Chechnya Charade
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
29 Apr 2013
The Boston bombing was major blowback. That much is certain. The question is, what level of blowback? The FBI, predictably, sticks to a convoluted screenplay worthy of those cocaine-fueled Hollywood nights in the 1980s; a couple of bad guys who ”hate our freedoms” because… they do. Welcome to the sweet abyss of an Orwellian vortex. 2013 increasingly looks like 1984.
→ read full article(Português) Os BRICS Afiam Suas Garras
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
8 Apr 2013
Ao se reunirem na África do Sul, os BRICS deram um passo que pode ter dimensões geopolíticas: montaram um pacote que prevê um banco de desenvolvimento, uma alternativa às agências de classificação de risco e uma opção ao dólar nas transações comerciais.
→ read full articleBRICS Go Over the Wall
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
1 Apr 2013
The BRICS meet in Durban, South Africa, this Tuesday [26 Mar 2013] to, among other steps, create their own credit rating agency, sidelining the dictatorship – or at least “biased agendas”, in New Delhi’s diplomatic take – of the Moody’s/Standard & Poor’s variety. They will also further advance the idea of the BRICS Development Bank, with a seed capital of US$50 billion (only structural details need to be finalized), helping infrastructure and sustainable development projects.
→ read full articleEl Comandante Has Left the Building
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
11 Mar 2013
How enlightening to watch world leaders’ reactions to the death of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica – a man who shuns 90% of his salary – reminded everyone how he qualified Chavez as “the most generous leader I ever met”, while praising the “fortress of democracy” of which Chavez was a great builder. Compare it with US President Barack Obama – in what sounds like a dormant cut and paste by some White House intern – reaffirming US support for “the Venezuelan people”.
→ read full articleAll That Pivots Is Gold
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
4 Feb 2013
What Beijing actually wants is to get rid of the US dollar peg. For that to happen, it needs vast gold reserves. So here’s Beijing pivoting from the US dollar to the yuan – and trying to sway vast swathes of the global economy to follow the path. Oh yes, this is a film noir worthy of Dashiell Hammett – involving the Pentagon, Beijing, shadow wars, pivoting and a lot of gold.
→ read full articleWar on Terror Forever
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
28 Jan 2013
Exit “historical” al-Qaeda, holed up somewhere in the Waziristans, in the Pakistani tribal areas; enter al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). In Dempsey’s words, AQIM “is a threat not only to the country of Mali, but the region, and if… left unaddressed, could in fact become a global threat.” With Mali now elevated to the status of a “threat” to the whole world, GWOT is proven to be really open-ended.
→ read full articleBurn, burn – Africa’s Afghanistan
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
21 Jan 2013
Forget about spotting any Americans; these are – what else – contractors who do not wear military uniforms.
→ read full articleHow Sexy Is Benghazi?
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
19 Nov 2012
The Love Pentagon – as in the Petraeus-Broadwell-Kelley-Allen-FBI shirtless torso guy – is the farce that keeps on giving. But this should really not be about sex, lies and emails. This should be about Benghazi. With frenemies like the US, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, Syria certainly does not need enemies. As for blowback, brace yourselves; what happened in Benghazi is just the hors d’oeuvres to be offered by increasingly rampaging frenemies of the US.
→ read full articleWhy Qatar Wants to Invade Syria
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
1 Oct 2012
He stressed Arab countries had a “military duty” to invade. So let’s assume the Emir is not exactly interested in turning Syria into Scandinavia. That opens the way to an inevitable motive – connected to, what else, Pipelineistan. It’s clear what Qatar is aiming at; to kill the US$10 billion Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline, a deal that was clinched even as the Syria uprising was already underway.
→ read full articleWar Fever as Seen from Iran
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
27 Aug 2012
So it’s time for something completely different – and totally absent from Western corporate media; sound Iranian minds rationally analyzing what’s really going on behind the drums of war – regarding Iran, Turkey, the Arab world and across Eurasia.
→ read full articleSyrian Blood Etches a New Line in the Sand
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
30 Jul 2012
No matter what militarized Western corporate media spins, there’s no endgame in Syria – yet. On the contrary; the sectarian game is just beginning. There’s no way to understand the Syrian dynamics without learning that most Free Syrian Army-FSA commanders are not Syrians, but Iraqi Sunnis. The over 100 heavily armed gangs engaged in civil war in Syria are overflowing with Gulf Cooperation Council funds. As it stands, the romanticized Syrian “rebels” plus the insurgents formerly known as terrorists cannot win against the Syria military – not even with the Saudis and Qataris showering them with loads of cash and weapons.
→ read full articleThere Will Be Hell to Pay for NATO’s Holy War
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
16 Jul 2012
Hillary has just called on “Western powers” and their Arab stooges – the NATOGCC compound that passes for the “international community” – to “make it clear that Russia and China will pay a price because they are holding up progress” regarding weaponized regime change in Syria. In non-newspeak, this means, “If you block our new war, there will be payback”.
→ read full articleDrone Me Down On the Killing Floor
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
19 Jun 2012
And the winner of the Humanitarian Oscar for Best Targeted Assassination with No Collateral Damage goes to… the Barack Obama White House death squad.
→ read full articleLong Live ‘Our’ Gulf Bastards
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
21 May 2012
Life is a golden gift from Allah if you’re a certified member of the Gulf Counter-Revolution Club (GCC), also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council; Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates can torture, kill, repress and demonize their own subjects – in full confidence the “master” will let you get away with it.
→ read full articleWhy Putin Is Driving Washington Nuts
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
12 Mar 2012
So Washington and its minions have been warned. Before last Sunday’s [4 Mar 2012] election, Putin advertised his road map: no war on Syria; no war on Iran; no “humanitarian bombing” or fomenting “color revolutions” – all “illegal instruments of soft power”. For Putin, a Washington-engineered New World Order is a no-go. What rules is “the time-honored principle of state sovereignty”.
→ read full articleExposed: The Arab Agenda in Syria
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
6 Feb 2012
Here’s a crash course on the “democratic” machinations of the Arab League – rather the GCC League, as real power in this pan-Arab organization is wielded by two of the six Persian Gulf monarchies composing the Gulf Cooperation Council, also known as Gulf Counter-revolution Club; Qatar and the House of Saud.
→ read full articleReal Wimps Go To Tehran Via Baghdad
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
31 Oct 2011
The new Holy Trinity mythology peddled by Washington to an unsuspecting world is that the Libya war is over, the Iraq war will be over by New Year’s Eve, and the Afghan war will be over by 2014. Oh yes; and Lindsay Lohan is a reincarnation of the Virgin Mary.
→ read full articleHow the West Won Libya
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
24 Oct 2011
They are fighting over the carcass as vultures. The French Ministry of Defense said they got him with a Rafale fighter jet firing over his convoy. The Pentagon said they got him with a Predator firing a Hellfire missile. After a wounded Colonel Muammar Gaddafi sought refuge in a filthy drain underneath a highway – an eerie echo of Saddam Hussein’s “hole” – he was found by Transitional National Council (TNC) “rebels”. And then duly executed.
→ read full articleNATO, the Ultimate Transformer
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
27 Jun 2011
NATO has just admitted it was “probably” responsible for the humanitarian liberation of nine Libyan civilians, plus 18 injured, via an early morning strike against an apartment building in a densely populated Tripoli neighborhood. Liberating Northern Africans in their sleep under tons of debris now adds to NATO’s – and the Pentagon’s – routine liberation of Pashtun wedding parties.
→ read full articleBin Laden Out, Gaddafi Next
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
16 May 2011
In the whirlwind of lies and hypocrisy engulfing the Osama bin Laden hit job, the key justice-related fact is how an unarmed man, codename “Geronimo”, was captured live then summarily executed in front of one of his daughters – after an invasion of a theoretically “sovereign” country. As for the war waged by NATO against Libya, the fact is that Western public opinion was fed a military attack against a sovereign country that has committed no violation of the United Nations charter. Talk about a wolf – neo-colonialism – in sheep’s clothing – “humanitarian war”.
→ read full articleLet Me Bomb You in Peace
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
11 Apr 2011
If former Pentagon supremo Donald “known unknown” Rumsfeld were still in business, he’d be grumbling that Libya presents no bombable targets – as in Afghanistan in 2001. As far as United States quagmires go, Libya is bigger than Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. But any possible “targets” concentrate in a few cities along the Mediterranean coast.
→ read full articleExposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
4 Apr 2011
Two diplomatic sources at the United Nations independently confirmed that Washington, via Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gave the go-ahead for Saudi Arabia to invade Bahrain and crush the pro-democracy movement in their neighbor in exchange for a “yes” vote by the Arab League for a no-fly zone over Libya – the main rationale that led to United Nations Security Council resolution 1973.
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