Holding Gold & Silver is Holding Wealth
Russia holds the key to German sovereignty By Pepe Escobar via The Saker Last week we traced the necessary historical and geopolitical steps to understand Why Russia is driving the West crazy. And then, last Friday, right before the start...
Turkey pivots to the center of The New Great Game: Pepe Escobar for The Saker When it comes to sowing – and profiting – from division, Erdogan’s Turkey is quite the superstar. Under the delightfully named Countering America’s Adversaries Through...
No Escape From Our Techno-Feudal World: Pepe Escobar via The Saker The political economy of the Digital Age remains virtually terra incognita. In Techno-Feudalism , published three months ago in France (no English translation yet), Cedric Durand, an economist at...
Maradona: the fragile god of the Global South: Pepe Escobar via The Saker His life was a running planetary pop opera for the ages. From Somalia to Bangladesh, everyone is familiar with the basic contours of his story – the...
Shadowplay revisited: how Eurasia is being reshaped: Pepe Escobar via The Saker We have seen how China is meticulously planning all its crucial geopolitical and geoeconomic moves all the way to 2030 and beyond. What you are about to read...
China: everything proceeding according to plan: Pepe Escobar via The Saker Let’s start with the story of an incredibly disappearing summit. Every August, the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) converges to the town of Beidaihe, a seaside resort...
The Clash Of Civilizations Revisited: Pepe Escobar via The Saker Late afternoon in May 29, 1453, Sultan Mehmet, the third son of Murad, born of a slave-girl – probably Christian – in the harem, fluent in Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Latin,...
Syria in Seattle: Commune Defies the U.S. Regime: Pepe Escobar Strategic-Culture The marriage of post-Lockdown and George Floyd protests has nurtured a rough beast that is still immune to any form of civilized debate in the U.S.: the Seattle Commune....
China’s virus response has been ‘breathtaking’: Pepe Escobar via The Saker TDC Note – We really don’t know which this whole thing is going to play out. So, we are attempting to look at both sides of the situation. ####...
The Roots of American Demonization of Shi’a Islam: Pepe Escobar via The Saker crossposted with The Unz Review The US targeted assassination, via drone strike, of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, apart from a torrent of crucial geopolitical ramifications, once again...
Cruising Pamir Highway, the heart of the Heartland: Pepe Escobar, On the Pamir Highway, Tajikistan via The Saker A privileged microcosm of what is evolving as the intersection between the New Silk Roads and Greater Eurasia This is the second...
Pamir Highway: the road on the roof of the world: Pepe Escobar via The Saker This is arguably the ultimate road trip on earth. Marco Polo did it. All the legendary Silk Road explorers did it. Traveling the Pamir Highway...
We are all hostages of 9/11: Pepe Escobar for Asia Times After years of reporting on the Global War on Terror, many questions behind the US attacks remain unresolved Afghanistan was bombed and invaded because of 9/11. I was there...
Syria, Iran and ‘chaos in international relations’ by Pepe Escobar – The Saker Even in the context of a post-truth geopolitical environment run amok, Russian President Vladimir Putin telling his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani over the phone that any further...
