COMMENTARY
How Black Swans Are Shaping Planet Panic
How Black Swans Are Shaping Planet Panic PEPE ESCOBAR Is the planet under the spell of a pair of black swans – a Wall Street meltdown, caused by an alleged oil war between Russia and […]
Pepe Escobar
COMMENTARY
Turkey’s Migrant Invasion of Europe Is Being Prevented by, Who Else? – Russia
Pam Barker | Director of TLB Europe Reloaded Project Two things of note: first, yesterday’s six-hour meeting between Erdogan and Putin in Moscow. Which seemed to go well, and has produced, for now, a ceasefire. […]
COMMENTARY
China’s virus response has been ‘breathtaking’
ER Editor: Having worked in Hong Kong for two years post-handover, we can say from firsthand experience that when the Chinese mobilize in the face of a major project or crisis, they do so very […]
COMMENTARY
America’s Existential Battle of the Ages to Stop Eurasian integration
Battle of the Ages to stop Eurasian integration The coming decade could see the US take on Russia, China and Iran over the New Silk Road connection PEPE ESCOBAR Posted with permission at The Saker […]
FINANCIAL
Burn, Neoliberalism, Burn!
Burn, Neoliberalism, Burn PEPE ESCOBAR Neoliberalism is – literally – burning. And from Ecuador to Chile, South America, once again, is showing the way. Against the vicious, one-size-fits-all IMF austerity prescription, which deploys weapons of […]
Analysis
Syria May Be The Biggest Defeat For The CIA Since Vietnam
The Road to Damascus: How the Syria War was Won Following the Damascus-Kurdish alliance, Syria may become the biggest defeat for the Central Intelligence Agency since Vietnam, says Pepe Escobar. By Pepe Escobar Special to Consortium […]
COMMENTARY
Will the Yemen War be the End of Saudi Arabia?
ER Editor: We also recommend an excellent analysis of the entire situation by Pepe Escobar, titled How the Houthis overturned the chessboard, which Tom Luongo quotes from below. See also Saudi Arabia up in Flames: Riyadh […]
WORLD
Welcome to the Indo-Russia maritime Silk Road
Welcome to the Indo-Russia maritime Silk Road Modi and Putin discuss business and joint ventures at an economic conference in the Far East PEPE ESCOBAR Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and Russian President Vladimir […]
COMMENTARY
The Great Bilderberg Secret Of 2019 – Back-pedalling on Iran
Why Trump now wants talks with Iran PEPE ESCOBAR If Tehran blocks the Strait of Hormuz, it could send the price of oil soaring and cause a global recession. Iranian soldiers take part in National […]
COMMENTARY
Et voila! Notre-Dame’s Billionaires Come Out of the Woodwork – to Privatize It?
Pam Barker | Director of TLB Europe Reloaded Project Below we’ve republished Pepe Escobar‘s piece for the Saker blog titled Bamiyan, Babylon, Palmyra, Notre-Dame, which arrives at the conclusion that Macron has basically privatised the cathedral. […]