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Aug 18 2025 
Luxury Terrorism
By indi.ca
I call America a luxury terrorism force because that’s what they are. The last time the USA was able to conscript a citizen army was over 50 years ago (Vietnam). The last time they were able to field a debt slave army was over 20 years ago (Iraq). Their last times are upon them,… Continue reading
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Aug 01 2025 
Slinging Social Media Slurs with Goldfinger
Judge Nap interviews our roving eye nomad on taking on the entire BRICS in one fell swoop. “Moneyprinters with nukes: CHARGE!”
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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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Jul 21 2025 
Iran’s Grand Strategy — Vali Nasr
“Either the U.S. lets Iran become nuclear, or the U.S. has to engage diplomatically.”
In this interview, Negar Razavi speaks with @vali_nasr about his new book, Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History — and the choices ahead for U.S. foreign policy.
It was pleasure to speak with Security in Context on my book Iran’s Grand Strategy https://t.co/7By3bceGnS
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Jun 30 2025 
Iran Pivots East
After direct aggression of the messianic West on herself, Iran blocked US-controlled GPS and switched to the more advanced Chinese BeiDou. This is more than a technologic paradigm change..
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May 01 2025 
Pepe with Judge Napolitano
Thanks to Tariffs, China Ditching US Tech. Napolitano interviews geopolitician Pepe Escobar, April 30th, 2025.
“… in this wilderness of narrative mirrors, Trump should be perceived as all characters combined: the White Rabbit, Humpty Dumpty (“When I use a word, it means what I choose to mean, no more and no less”), the Mad Hatter, the… 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
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Apr 13 2025 
Why China won’t call a ‘tariff-wielding barbarian’
Three wise monkeys are perfectly aware of what a pigeon posing as eagle is really up to.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The Toddler Temper Tantrum-style Trump Tariff Tizzy (TTT), now accelerated to 145% – and counting – is yet another thunderous trademark pigeon smashing the chessboard gambit.
It won’t work. Trump claimed that China would… Continue reading
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Apr 01 2025 
A Travelogue of Felix Arabia: Unconquerable Yemen
Part II on my mesmerizing journey in Yemen… Ansarallah won’t back down, staring down the Empire in the Red Sea.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
SANA’A, Yemen – No wonder the Roman Empire called it Arabia Felix.
It’s 3 pm in Al-Sabeen square in the Haddah neighborhood of Sana’a on Friday, March 28, Al Quds Day,… Continue reading
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Mar 31 2025 
A Travelogue of Felix Arabia: from Sana’a to Saada — Yemen during Wartime
Part I on my mesmerizing journey in Yemen…
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
SAADA, northwest Yemen – It’s 2 pm on Wednesday, March 26, and I am standing in a deserted boulevard in Saada during Ramadan, in silence, surrounded by mountains, and watching a road sign telling me the Saudi border is only a two-hour drive away.
We… Continue reading
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Mar 19 2025 
A Hard Rain’s a-gonna Fall – from the West down to the East
In this incandescent juncture, what matters is off the record.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Let’s start with that phone call. The is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage… Continue reading
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Mar 14 2025 
Putin peels off the Masks of the Ceasefire Kabuki
Putin will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The “ceasefire” announced with trademark bombast by Team Trump 2.0 should be seen as a tawdry kabuki inside a cheap matryoshka.
As we peel off the successive masks,… Continue reading
