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Pepe Escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst. He writes for RT, Sputnik and TomDispatch, and is a frequent contributor to websites and radio and TV shows ranging from the US to East Asia. He is the former roving correspondent for Asia Times Online. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Even before 9/11 he specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of "Globalistan" (2007), "Red Zone Blues" (2007), "Obama does Globalistan" (2009) and "Empire of Chaos" (2014), all published by Nimble Books. His latest book is "2030", also by Nimble Books, out in December 2015.
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Friday, December 2, 2011The Shadow War in Syria When the Assad regime insists the current Syrian tragedy is to a great extent incited by well-paid and well-armed elements -- not to mention mercenaries -- at the service of foreign powers, it is essentially correct.
Monday, November 28, 2011That Rocky Road to Damascus The trillion-dollar question in the "Arab Winter" is who will blink first in the West's screenplay of slouching towards Tehran via Damascus.
Monday, November 21, 2011Exposed: US Press "Freedom" This is how the much-lauded "freedom of the press" myth in the US actually works. If you perform the job of an actual journalist, telling truth to power, forget about attending press conferences at the White House, Pentagon or State Department. You won't even be admitted in the building.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011Politburo uber alles What the Gang of Eight is truly after is essentially a rich man's EU. Get ready because from now on, the euro won't unify Europe; it will spearhead its balkanization.
Friday, November 11, 2011Do the Bomb Iran Shuffle The enticing possibility of a successful attack on Iran as the ultimate creative destruction move, reshuffling all the cards from the Middle East to Central Asia. The ''arc of instability'' terminally destabilized.
Friday, November 4, 2011Fear And Loathing In The Cannes Debt Festival The Chinese know well enough that two-bit European governments simply cannot appease the God of the Market. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao actually told Van Rompuy that Europe needs a structural reform. Two weeks ago, China's vice finance minister Zhu Guangyao was more lenient, saying that China shelling out cash was "under discussion," but Beijing wanted to know what the EU was really up to.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011The Pentagon-Arab Spring Love Story Anyone who hoped the Arab Spring might eventually take over the Persian Gulf and those lands once known as Arabia Felix has enough reason to drown in sadness. The Arab counter-revolution is stronger than ever -- led by the House of Saud and its monarchy minions at the Gulf Counter-revolution Club (GCC), officially known as Gulf Cooperation Council. And their most precious ally is the Pentagon.
Friday, October 28, 2011Real Wimps Go To Tehran Via Baghdad Those same nullities who in 2002, in the run-up to the attack on Iraq, were bragging that "real men go to Tehran," now want to use Americans as bait for an Israeli attack -- and this while US sanctions on Iran are about to become a de facto blockade, which international law still deems as an act of war.
Thursday, October 27, 2011How The West Won Libya Change the world can believe in will be the day NATO enforces a no-fly one over Saudi Arabia to protect the Shi'ites in the eastern province, with the Pentagon launching a Hellfire carpet over those thousands of medieval, corrupt House of Saud princes. It won't happen. Meanwhile, this is the way the West ends; with a NATO bang, and a thousand barbaric, lawless whimpers. Disgusted? Get a Guy Fawkes mask and raise hell.
