Dear Common Dreams Readers:
Pepe Escobar
Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times and an analyst for the Real News Network. His latest book is Obama does Globalistan. He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com.
Articles by this author
 |
Views Monday, November 23, 2015 The New Great Game Between China and the US The U.S. is transfixed by its multibillion-dollar electoral circus. The European Union is paralyzed by austerity, fear of refugees, and now all-out jihad in the streets of Paris. So the West might be excused if it’s barely caught the echoes of a Chinese version of Roy Orbison’s “All I Have to Do Is... Read more |
 |
Views Thursday, July 23, 2015 The Eurasian Big Bang: How China and Russia Are Running Rings Around Washington Let’s start with the geopolitical Big Bang you know nothing about, the one that occurred just two weeks ago. Here are its results: from now on, any possible future attack on Iran threatened by the Pentagon (in conjunction with NATO) would essentially be an assault on the planning of an interlocking... Read more |
 |
Views Monday, February 23, 2015 Year of the Sheep, Century of the Dragon? China and a Brave New World Order BEIJING -- Seen from the Chinese capital as the Year of the Sheep starts, the malaise affecting the West seems like a mirage in a galaxy far, far away. On the other hand, the China that surrounds you looks all too solid and nothing like the embattled nation you hear about in the Western media, with... Read more |
 |
Views Tuesday, December 16, 2014 East vs. Rest: China's Eurasian Integration vs. the West's Empire of Chaos November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province, 300 kilometers south of Shanghai, the first train carrying 82 containers of export goods weighing more than 1,000 tons left a massive warehouse complex heading for... Read more |
 |
Views Monday, October 06, 2014 Can China and Russia Squeeze Washington Out of Eurasia? A specter haunts the fast-aging “New American Century”: the possibility of a future Beijing-Moscow-Berlin strategic trade and commercial alliance. Let’s call it the BMB. Its likelihood is being seriously discussed at the highest levels in Beijing and Moscow, and viewed with interest in Berlin, New... Read more |
 |
Views Monday, May 19, 2014 The Birth of a Eurasian Century: Russia and China Do Pipelineistan HONG KONG -- A specter is haunting Washington, an unnerving vision of a Sino-Russian alliance wedded to an expansive symbiosis of trade and commerce across much of the Eurasian land mass -- at the expense of the United States. And no wonder Washington is anxious. That alliance is already a done... Read more |
|
Views Wednesday, August 28, 2013 Obama Set for Holy Tomahawk War The ''responsibility to protect'' (R2P) doctrine invoked to legitimize the 2011 war on Libya has just transmogrified into ''responsibility to attack'' (R2A) Syria. Just because the Obama administration says so. Read more |
|
|
Views Thursday, December 06, 2012 Mr. President, Tear Down This Wall: Washington’s Iranian Future In Election 2012’s theatre-of-the-absurd “foreign policy” debate, Iran came up no less than 47 times . Read more |
|
|
Views Monday, October 22, 2012 Time Is Tight to Produce a Worthy US Dream LOS ANGELES - It's tight. It's awfully tight. But way beyond demented pollmania permeating every nook and cranny of the multibillionaire election circus - coupled with the torrential vomiting of the Spin Machine scary monsters and super freaks - these are the stark facts. Read more |
|
|
Views Friday, June 15, 2012 Drone Me Down on the Killing Floor Lord knows, I should'a been gone Lord knows, I should'a been gone And I wouldn't've been here, down on the killin' floor - Howlin' Wolf, Killing Floor Read more |