Pepe Escobar

Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times and analyst for the Real News. His latest book is Obama Does Globalistan. He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com.

Articles

Obama in Tehran? (Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Nuclear Arms and Proliferation)

What remains of the initial Obama drive to reach out to Iran with an “engagement that is honed and grounded in mutual respect”?

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A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC (Regions and Countries, World)

How a confrontation is shaping up between the US/NATO and the BRICS.

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The Myth of an 'Isolated' Iran (Nuclear Arms and Proliferation, Sanctions, Economy)

Following the money in the Iran crisis.

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Comeuppance of a Superpower: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Decline of the West (Arab Awakening, Foreign Policy, Reimagining Capitalism)

The proverbial bogeymen of our world—Osama, Saddam, Gaddafi, Ahmadinejad—are clearly meant to act like so many mini-black holes absorbing all our fears. But they won’t save the West from its decline, or the former sole superpower from its comeuppance.

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Mummies and Models in the New Middle East (World)

What will be the fate of Egypt and the millions of Egyptians who took to the streets in a staggering show of aggressive nonviolence in January and February?

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China's Pipelineistan 'War' (Economic Development, Foreign Affairs, Environment)

China is slowly winning control of the Greater Middle East and Central Asia's energy supplies with deals, strategy and lots of pipe.

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Iran and the Pipelineistan Opera

The story under the Iranian nuclear story: how Iranian natural gas will reach Europe.

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