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Tag: Pepe Escobar

Posted inOpinion

Can China help Brazil restart its global soft power?

by Pepe Escobar December 22, 2022December 22, 2022

Ten days of full immersion in Brazil are not for the faint-hearted. Even restricted to the top two megalopolises, Sao Paulo and Rio, watching live the impact of interlocking economic, political, social and environmental crises exacerbated by the Jair Bolsonaro project leaves one stunned. The return of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for what will […]

Posted inMiddle East

Operation Claw-Sword: Erdogan’s big new game in Syria

by Pepe Escobar November 27, 2022November 30, 2022
Posted inSummitry

The G20’s Balinese dance and Biden’s calming words

by Pepe Escobar November 16, 2022November 17, 2022
Posted inOpinion

Bamboo diplomacy: the China-SE Asia romance  

by Pepe Escobar November 10, 2022November 10, 2022
Posted inBrazil

Comeback kid Lula in the eye of a volcano

by Pepe Escobar October 31, 2022November 4, 2022
Posted inOpinion

Putin, Xi running circles around Biden’s hybrid war

by Pepe Escobar December 16, 2021December 18, 2021
Posted inUS-Russia

What Putin really told Biden 

by Pepe Escobar December 8, 2021December 13, 2021
Posted inEssay

Get back to where we once were, John

by Pepe Escobar December 4, 2021December 6, 2021
Posted inAT+

Fauci as Darth Vader of the Covid wars

by Pepe Escobar November 25, 2021November 27, 2021
Posted inChina

Xi’s new Communist Manifesto

by Pepe Escobar November 15, 2021November 17, 2021
Posted inEurasia

New Great Game in the Caucasus and Central Asia

by Pepe Escobar November 11, 2021November 15, 2021
Posted inAfghanistan

Afghan chess pieces moving fast and furious

by Pepe Escobar October 28, 2021October 30, 2021
Posted inGeopolitics

The world according to Vladimir Putin

by Pepe Escobar October 23, 2021October 25, 2021
Posted inOpinion

Sochi probes the Utopia of a multipolar world 

by Pepe Escobar October 20, 2021October 24, 2021
Posted inAnalysis

Muqtada The Conqueror gains ground in Iraqi poll

by Pepe Escobar October 12, 2021October 15, 2021
Posted inOpinion

Putin and Erdogan take each other’s measure

by Pepe Escobar September 30, 2021October 2, 2021
Posted inOpinion

9/9 and 9/11, 20 years later

by Pepe Escobar September 9, 2021September 13, 2021
Posted inAfghanistan

Who profits from the Kabul suicide bombing?

by Pepe Escobar August 27, 2021August 30, 2021
Posted inAT+

‘Forever war’ benefiting Afghans? Follow the money

by Pepe Escobar August 23, 2021August 24, 2021
Posted inOpinion

China, Russia are stage-managing the Taliban 

by Pepe Escobar August 19, 2021August 23, 2021
Posted inAnalysis

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan back with a bang

by Pepe Escobar August 16, 2021August 19, 2021
Posted inAfghanistan

A Saigon moment looms in Kabul

by Pepe Escobar August 13, 2021August 16, 2021
Posted inAfghanistan

All roads lead to the Battle for Kabul

by Pepe Escobar August 10, 2021August 12, 2021
Posted inIran

Raisi era heralds hard pivot to the East

by Pepe Escobar August 5, 2021August 10, 2021
Posted inAfghanistan

The Taliban go to Tianjin

by Pepe Escobar July 29, 2021August 2, 2021
Posted inAfghanistan

BRI vs New Quad for Afghanistan’s coming boom

by Pepe Escobar July 26, 2021July 28, 2021
Posted inAerospace

Checkmate fighter puts Russia ahead of the game

by Pepe Escobar July 21, 2021July 24, 2021
Posted inAfghanistan

Russia-China advance Asian roadmap for Afghanistan

by Pepe Escobar July 15, 2021July 18, 2021
Posted inAfghanistan

New Great Game gets back to basics

by Pepe Escobar July 13, 2021July 16, 2021
Posted inAfghanistan

Say hello to the diplo-Taliban

by Pepe Escobar July 9, 2021July 12, 2021

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