Articles by Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News
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Imperial Folly Brings Russia and Germany Together
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
31 Jul 2017
29 Jul 2017 – Economic war has been declared against Russia for at least three years now. The difference is this latest package also declares economic war against Europe, especially Germany. Make no mistake; the EU leadership will counterpunch. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, put it mildly when he said, “America first cannot mean that Europe’s interests come last.”
→ read full articleEmpire of Whiners
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
31 Jul 2017
As a new report by the Army War College tracks the loss of “US primacy” around the world, it prescribes more of the same; propaganda, surveillance and war.
→ read full articleHouse of Saudi Cards: The Inside Story
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
26 Jun 2017
Just when geopolitical practitioners were betting on regime change in Qatar – orchestrated by a desperate House of Saud – regime change ended up happening in Riyadh, orchestrated by Warrior Prince, Destroyer of Yemen and Blockader of Qatar, Mohammad bin Salman.
→ read full articleThe West Can’t Smell What Eurasia is Cooking
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
19 Jun 2017
A tectonic geopolitical shift happened in Astana, Kazakhstan, only a few days ago, and yet barely a ripple registered in Atlanticist circles.
→ read full articleTrump’s Sword Dance Sets Off the War of the Wahhabis
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
12 Jun 2017
7 Jun 2017 – The fact is the House of Saud went amok, in a flash, going after Qatar and bombing from the inside that glorious Arab NATO project – call it NATOGCC — sworn with pomp over a glowing orb. US President Donald Trump could not possibly have predicted the game-changing after-effects of his triumphal sword dance in Riyadh. Or could he?
→ read full articleThe Decline of the West Revisited
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
15 May 2017
Europa, in Greek mythology, was a Phoenician princess abducted by Zeus and carried off to Crete. In time, Europe was meant to designate the western extreme of Eurasia. Europe, essentially, was the quite provincial Western seed that then sprouted an octopus: the global West.
→ read full articleWhy Washington is Terrified of Russia, China
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
1 May 2017
The Russia-China strategic partnership, uniting the Pentagon’s avowed top two “existential” threats to America, does not come with a formal treaty signed with pomp, circumstance – and a military parade.
→ read full articleThe ‘Birth Pangs’ of a New Middle East, Remixed
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
20 Mar 2017
You all remember former US Secretary of State Condi Rice’s notorious 2006 prediction about “birth pangs of a New Middle East.” True to the George “Dubya” Bush/Cheney regime, Condi got it all spectacularly wrong. By now it’s much clearer who’s configuring the birth pagans of a new Middle East. It’s not Israel. It’s not the House of Saud. And it’s not exactly Trump.
→ read full articleEurasia Integration: A Three-Speed Affair
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
27 Feb 2017
Europe, relatively integrated, lives today in a de facto two-speed reality. Eurasia integration, a work in progress and with vastly more reach, is for the moment a three-speed process, as seen through the positioning of three Central Asian “stans”.
→ read full articleWhy the UK Said Bye Bye to the EU
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
27 Jun 2016
24 Jun 2016 – The irrepressibly mediocre Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, posing as a “historian”, had warned that Brexit, “could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but Western political civilization in its entirety”. That’s foolish. Brexit proved that it’s immigration, stupid. And once again, it’s the economy, stupid (although the British neoliberal establishment never paid attention).
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