By offering asylum to the persecuted publisher of WikiLeaks, France’s Macron would enhance his status in myriad European latitudes and all across the Global South, writes Pepe Escobar.
In the end, the conference did disintegrate into the catfight that will dominate the rest of the century, writes Pepe Escobar.
The Middle East is the key to wide-ranging, economic, interlinked integration and peace, writes Pepe Escobar.
“It is most unlikely Trump will escalate at this point, and this could provide him with the opportunity to leave the Middle East except for the Gulf States. Trump wants to get out,” a U.S. intelligence source says.
If Tehran ever decided to shut down the Strait of Hormuz it would trigger a global depression, writes Pepe Escobar.
Iraq is the preferred battleground of a proxy war against Iran that may now metastasize into hot war, with devastating consequences.
This journey into the past also reaches the heart of 21st century China’s New Silk Roads strategy, says Pepe Escobar in this photo and text reportage from Central Asia.
Andrei Martyanov’s latest book provides unceasing evidence about the kind of lethality waiting for U.S. forces in a possible, future war against real armies (not the Taliban or Saddam Hussein’s).
Pepe Escobar reports on a searing account by Iran’s foreign minister of his country’s relations with the U.S.
