Pepe Escobar

Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007), Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge and Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009).  His latest book is Empire of ChaosHe may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com.

How Iran Will Respond to Trump

The Myth of a Neo-Imperial China

The Italian Job

Rome: A Eulogy

In An Age of Hollow Men and Existential Angst, Re-read Sartre

The Petro-Yuan Bombshell

The New Great Game Moves from Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific

From the Caucasus to the Balkans, China’s Silk Roads are Rising

How Turkey, Iran, Russia and India are playing the New Silk Roads

Live from Baghdad: the Secret of Iraq’s Renaissance

Tikrit and Najaf: Agony and Ecstasy in Iraq

How the DPRK Riddle is Freaking out the US Establishment

Xi’s Road Map to the Chinese Dream

Kirkuk Redux Was a Bloodless Offensive, Here’s Why

Why Trump Has Gone Nuclear on Iran

The House of Saud Bows to the House of Putin

Wheels and Deals: Trouble Brewing in the House of Saud

Unmasked: Trump Doctrine Vows Carnage for New Axis of Evil

The Russia-China Plan for North Korea: Stability, Connectivity

Korea, Afghanistan and the Never Ending War Trap

North Korea: Fire, Fury and Fear

China and India Torn Between Silk Roads and Cocked Guns

The New Silk Road Will Go Through Syria

The G20 From Hell

Washington and Berlin on a Collision Course

Fear and Loathing on the Afghan Silk Road

Blood on the Tracks of the New Silk Roads

Eurasian Integration Meets America First

Jihad 2.0: the Making of the Next Nightmare

China Widens its Silk Road to the World

The Decline of the West Revisited

Why There Will be no Russophobia Reset

North Korea: The Real Serious Options on the Table

Could Great Wall of Iron become New Silk Roadblock?

Total Screen: How Baudrillard Anticipated Trump

Letter from Tehran: Trump ‘the Bazaari’

Age of Anger

Game-Changers Ahead on The (Long) Maritime Silk Road

Will Trump Hop on an American Silk Road?

Trump, Kissinger and Ma Playing on a Crowded Chessboard

Shadow Play: The New Great Game in Eurasia

American Dream, Revisited

“America has lost” in the Philippines

The Aleppo / Mosul Riddle

Why Hillary Clinton is a Bigger Concern for China than Donald Trump

Is Trump Ready to Go Nuclear?

Hillary Clinton’s Axis of Evil

Why the New Silk Roads terrify Washington

Afghanistan; It’s the Heroin, Stupid

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