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Disaster CapitalismSeptember 26, 2011
Comeuppance of a Superpower: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Decline of the West
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.
Pepe Escobar
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WorldMarch 14, 2011
Mummies and Models in the New Middle East
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?
Pepe Escobar
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EconomicsOctober 12, 2010
China’s Pipelineistan ‘War’
China is slowly winning control of the Greater Middle East and Central Asia’s energy supplies with deals, strategy and lots of pipe.
Pepe Escobar
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October 1, 2009
Iran and the Pipelineistan Opera
The story under the Iranian nuclear story: how Iranian natural gas will reach Europe.
Pepe Escobar
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