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Jan 26 2023 
‘Doomsday clock’: 90 seconds to midnight
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at PressTV
The Doomsday Clock, set by the US-based magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has been moved to 90 seconds to midnight.
That’s the closest ever to total nuclear doom, the global catastrophe.
The Clock had been set at 100 seconds since 2020. The Bulletin’s Science and Security Board and a…
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Jan 24 2023 
Can You Smell What the Year of the Rabbit Is Cooking?
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
The New Silk Roads, or BRI, as well as the integration efforts of BRICS+, the SCO and the EAEU will be on the forefront of Chinese policy.
Liu He studied economics at Renmin University in China and got a Master’s from Harvard. Since 2018, he’s one of…
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Global South: Gold-backed currencies
Global South: Gold-backed currencies to replace the US dollar
by Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
Let’s start with three interconnected multipolar-driven facts.
First: One of the key take aways from the World Economic Forum annual shindig in Davos, Switzerland is when Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan, on a panel on “Saudi Arabia’s Transformation,” made it clear…
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Jan 18 2023 
‘Fragmented world’ sleepwalks into World War III
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at PressTV
The self-appointed Davos “elites” are afraid. So afraid. At this week’s World Economic Forum meetings, mastermind Klaus Schwab – displaying his trademark Bond villain act – carped over and over again about a categorical imperative: we need “Cooperation in a Fragmented World”.
While his diagnosis of “the most critical fragmentation”…
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Jan 16 2023
All Quiet (Panic) on the Western Front
By Pepe Escobar (raw document, not yet cross-posted https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/5995)
Shadows are falling / And I’ve been here all day / It’s too hot to sleep / And time is running away / Feel like my soul / has turned into steel /I’ve still got the scars / That the sun didn’t heal / There’s not even…
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Jan 08 2023
Bye Bye 1991-2022
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
2023 starts with collective NATO in Absolutely Freak Out Mode as Russian Defense Minister Shoigu announces that Russian Navy frigate Admiral Gorshkov is now on tour – complete with a set of Mr. Zircon’s hypersonic business cards.
The business tour will encompass the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean,…
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General Soleimani kick-started multipolar world
How General Soleimani kick-started the multipolar world
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at PressTVThe consensus among future historians will be inevitable: the 2020s started with a diabolic murder.
Baghdad airport, January 3, 2020, 00:52 a.m. local time. The assassination of Gen.QassemSoleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic RevolutionGuards Corps (IRGC), alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis,…
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Jan 06 2023 
Why BRI is back with a bang in 2023
As Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative enters its 10th year, a strong Sino-Russian geostrategic partnership has revitalized the BRI across the Global South.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
The year 2022 ended with a Zoom call to end all Zoom calls: Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping discussing all aspects of the Russia-China…
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Dec 23 2022
Can China help Brazil restart its global soft power?
Bolsonaro reduced Brazil to resources-exporter status; now Lula should follow Argentina’s lead into Belt and Road
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Asia Times
Ten days of full immersion in Brazil are not for the faint-hearted. Even restricted to the top two megalopolises, Sao Paulo and Rio, watching live the impact of interlocking economic, political, social…
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From the NATOstan-Imposed Meat Grinder
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
Somewhere in her private pantheon, Pallas Athena, Goddess of Geopolitics, is immensely enjoying the show.
No one ever lost money capitalizing on the unlimited nonsense spewed out by the collective deer caught in the headlights also known as Western mainstream media – complete with showering Person of the…
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Dec 17 2022
Xi of Arabia and the petroyuan drive
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
It would be so tempting to qualify Chinese President Xi Jinping landing in Riyadh a week ago, welcomed with royal pomp and circumstance, as Xi of Arabia proclaiming the dawn of the petroyuan era.
But it’s more complicated than that. As much as the seismic shift implied by…
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Nov 30 2022
The Global South: new payment system
The Global South births a new game-changing payment system
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The CradleThe Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) is speeding up its design of a common payment system, which has been closely discussed for nearly a year with the Chinese under the stewardship of Sergei Glazyev, the EAEU’s minister in charge of…
