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Aug 18 2025 
What really happened in Alaska
The Putin–Trump meeting dropped some important veils. It revealed that Washington views Russia as a peer power, and that Europe is little more than a useful American tool.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
Alaska was not only about Ukraine. Alaska was mostly about the world’s top two nuclear powers attempting to rebuild trust and apply the… Continue reading
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Aug 03 2025 
How To Live, What To Do
They have all shoehorned themselves into the system, each immersed in an ecology with clear, unspoken rules, taboos, heroes and villains. To be evicted from all that has forced me, daily, to encounter a much larger world, and to be freer than ever.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Pairing me with Hung… Continue reading
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Aug 02 2025 
Flush, Of Course, Without One Glance Backward
… When an Asian says the American dream is dead, you know we are in deep trouble.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Six months into the Golden Age of America, manufacturing jobs are down, inflation and unemployment are up, despite fudged numbers, foreign tourists have mostly stayed away, and there are no… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2025 
Sam Landing Jab Means Chinese Troops in Southeast Asia
Sweating and farting bodies are comforted and reassured by metallic extensions. Admiring a car or watch, we imagine ourselves to be just as clean and immortal.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
In 2018, a Vietnamese in Phnom Penh told me about a miraculous rescue. After being knocked over by a car, he… Continue reading
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Jul 30 2025 
Missiles Fly, Missives Tossed in Mud
… Hun Sen must be disappointed, at least, at the Middle Kingdom’s relative silence through all this, but who knows what Xi Jinping is up to. Sun Tzu’s ghost must be giving Xi an endless stream of great advices.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Consider this astounding statement, “She is not only… Continue reading
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Jul 29 2025 
Peace Breaks
With that, everything was solved, at least this morning in this drowsy city by the ocean, where corpses are no longer washed back onto shores.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
We’ll see if this ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand holds. If I hadn’t just returned from Jordan, I would take a bus… Continue reading
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Jul 28 2025 
Why Thailand and Cambodia Are at War in the Heart of ASEAN
what toxic confluence of factors has crystallized into a hot war in the heart of Southeast Asia? It starts with a family feud – involving the Thai Shinawatra and the Cambodian Hun Sen clans
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
Fog of war rules. A crack Thai analyst worries about the intersection of so many vectors not making… Continue reading -
Jul 27 2025 
Until Someone Like You Bleeds
…any division within ASEAN benefits the USA, and Uncle Sam loves nothing better than any ally of China to be roughed up.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
On 7/24/25, just hours after conflict erupted between Cambodia and Thailand, a 24-year-old was assaulted in Chanthaburi, 300 miles from the actual fighting. Employed at… Continue reading
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Jul 26 2025 
Sam Backed Siam Slaps Hun Sen’s Kampuchea
As always, us fleas are squashed when geopolitical mammoths collide.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
This flareup between Cambodia and Thailand deserves a much closer scrutiny. Before you go to Brian Berletic, Danny Haiphong or, God forbid, Scott Ritter, it’s best you pay the utmost attention to every syllable, pause and mispronunciation… Continue reading
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Jul 25 2025 
Dodging Wars in Departure Lounges
A soulful globe-trotter reports from Vietnam, traveling from Cambodia, of life and timeless imperial pyrotechnics
Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Since I’ve shown an interest in her past, Mrs. Seven, a 63-year-old widow living with two dogs, keeps telling me more. In Hai Phong 40 years ago as part of a performance troupe, she was… Continue reading
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May 27 2025 
The Criminal and Violent Creation of Israel
“… the state of Israel … was created by fraud, deception, crime, terrorism and bloodshed and has lived that way since it was created.”
By Professor Dr. Syed Mujahid Kamran at VT Foreign Policy.
“Eran Elhaik, an Israeli geneticist, who served seven years in the Israeli Defense Force, and no critic of Israel, developed genome studies at… Continue reading
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May 25 2025 
European kakistocracy locked in a Forever War against Russia
Never interrupt your enemy when he is committing serial suicide.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is committing serial suicide (in reverse American gore-style, when the serial killer always resurrects). In the case of the EU kakistocracy, serial self-destruction is always a given, and always skyrocketing.
So the EUrocrats in… Continue reading
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May 23 2025 
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight a war and die.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight… Continue reading
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Apr 30 2025 
Going to Kashmir…just to find Alice in Wonderland
Welcome to “Ruler of the World” does Wonderland – to the sound of that hypnotic ‘Kashmir’ riff.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Two overarching taboos reign on the – now shattered – collective West:
Can’t define the Ukraine regime as Nazi.
Can’t condemn the psychopathological Israeli genocide in Gaza.The taboos happen to be inextricably linked… Continue reading
