There is no escape for the US, from that failing State status, if it remains on the well-worn path it has made its very own for much longer (which appears likely). It will become a fully 'Failed' State, where everything that used to work to hold the working business end of a culture built on... Continue Reading →
Taming the Weird and Wild ‘Beast’ of the West
This is a time of great but mostly obscure movements. Obscure perhaps only because the attention of most folk is taken up with more pressing 'at home' issues, rather than to be found watching a grander scheme unfolding beyond their doors. A time for setting the scene for the next exciting and perhaps more determinative... Continue Reading →
“While NOBODY Was Watching…” – Pepe Escobar
https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1961368196818121052 The main takeaways... From what is said above, it seems likely that Russia plans to drill this possibly world's largest oil reserve. Russia is possibly the only nation on the planet with the resources and skills to do this. I can't say that for certain, but I believe it to be true. And, as... Continue Reading →
Pepe Escobar Delivers – On Alaska – and What That Sets Up For The Future
A few hours ago - my previous post - I spoke about a two hour video I considered to be of great importance for an understanding of global events today. Well, good news, it is not 2 hrs, just 1 hour. The second hour I have not viewed, and therefore cannot comment on it or... Continue Reading →
“myth of genocidal invincibility” – is an Escobaran Euphemism for ‘weakened and humiliated Israel’
You want a definitive appraisal of recent events in West Asia/Middle East? Here's one, and you will not find better anywhere... 'The ceasefire kabuki' - Pepe Escobar - Strategic Culture Foundation - June 25, 2025 Takeaway (n): In the end, predictably, the Circus Ringmaster went TACO (“Trump Always Chickens Out”). His impulsive 'jabs' at the... Continue Reading →
In the Israel-Iran War, “The spell of unrestricted Western diktat has finally been broken: all that will survive is ‘the loud lament of the disconsolate chimera’.” – Pepe Escobar
Only by the form, the pattern,Can words or music reachThe stillness, as a Chinese jar stillMoves perpetually in its stillness.Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts,Not that only, but the co-existence,Or say that the end precedes the beginning,And the end and the beginning were always thereBefore the beginning and after the end.And... Continue Reading →
Essential Information for Understanding World Situation, as at June 4, 2025
To begin, I recommend you watch this episode of Dialogue Works on YouTube or elsewhere. It feeds from this appraisal by Pepe Escobar on Strategic Culture Foundation, which I suggest you read first... 'Waiting for the Oreshniks, while the Istanbul kabuki proceeds “not negatively”' - Pepe Escobar - Strategic Culture Foundation, Jun 3, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVj5Jl2yORY... Continue Reading →
“Mandala at work, Chinese-style” – Pepe Escobar
A few days ago I wrote about the significant meeting of Asian minds coming together at the recent and first ever ASEAN-GCC-China Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I could see the real importance in this meeting but I did not have the words to convey the fullness of that significance (I know my limits). But... Continue Reading →
“A Bunch of Clowns in Washington” Think They Can Beat The Houthis (Ansarallah). Another Case of Ha-Ha-Ha-Hah! What a Bunch of Maroons!!
They are, as usual, lying to themselves again. There is no chance. They will run out of Carrier fleets first. Such activity is now over for the West. But of course, they are too dumb to realise that. Pepe Escobar: Yemen's Missiles DEVASTATE US & Israel as Trump Signal Leak SHOCKS World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMeXQK5R67s Yet another... Continue Reading →
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