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Pepe Escobar

Correspondent for Asia Times and an analyst for The Real News.

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Erdogan risks the ’must go’ path

by Pepe Escobar

4 June 2013

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is playing with fire as he belittles the popular protest spreading among a cross-section of secular Turkey and totally opposed to his highly personalized/autocratic mix of hardcore neoliberalism and conservative religion. The prime minister now deriding demonstrators as (...)

Syrian blood etches a new line in the sand

by Pepe Escobar

4 August 2012

A new line is being drawn in the Middle East sand by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, marked by Syrian blood sent gushing with the help of NATO mujahideen/jihadi death squads pursuing expansion of Sunni domination in the region. There’s no endgame yet in Syria - but, according to author and journalist (...)

Welcome to the ’Kurdish Spring’

by Pepe Escobar

31 July 2012

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has come out all guns blazing after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad quietly concluded a deal that handed the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Party control of key areas in the northeast. This raises prospects for Ankara’s worst nightmare: A semi-autonomous (...)

Turkey has yet to understand the new deal struck between U.S. and Russia

Why Turkey won’t go to war with Syria

by Pepe Escobar

Sâo Paulo (Brazil) | 8 July 2012

The tension and likelihood of a world war because of the conflict in Syria is currently on the cards because certain countries are behaving like arsonists, especially Turkey, in continuing to offer a logistical base for mercenaries from "liberated" Libya. Saudi Arabia’s ruling House of Saud will (...)

"So long, towelheads"

by Pepe Escobar

20 December 2011

The Pentagon officially pronounced its US$3 trillion-and-counting, "war on terror"-related invasion, occupation and decimation of the Iraqi nation dead on Thursday even as the country prepared for a low-intensity Sunni-Shi’ite civil war and the Muslim world wondered whatever happened to the (...)

War-mongering on an international scale

The age of the Reaper

by Pepe Escobar

23 September 2011

Arrogance and shameless doublespeak reign supreme in the world of diplomacy. Respect for international law and human rights is a farce. Never has this come across so blatantly as in President Obama’s speech on 21 September before the UN General Assembly. Revealing in terms of the hypocrisy and (...)

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Libya: The real war starts now

by Pepe Escobar

9 September 2011

Political, economic and social instability in Libya did not end with the fall of Tripoli and the alleged victory of NATO rebels. Gaddafi’s decision to go underground has caught everyone by surprise. The unfolding scenario is reminiscent of Omar Mukhtar’s legacy, the Libyan leader who struggled (...)

Libya’s new colonialization

Disaster capitalism swoops over Libya

by Pepe Escobar

Sâo Paulo (Brazil) | 25 August 2011

Think of the new Libya as the latest spectacular chapter in the Disaster Capitalism series. Instead of weapons of mass destruction, we had R2P, short for "responsibility to protect". Instead of neo-conservatives, we had humanitarian (...)

Everything You Need to Know About Oil, Gas, Russia, China, Iran, Afghanistan and Obama

Pipelineistan goes Af-Pak

by Pepe Escobar

14 May 2009

Nothing of significance takes place in Eurasia without an energy angle. In this insightful analysis, global reporter Pepe Escobar focuses on the ongoing energy struggle across "Pipelineistan" and the Great Game of business, diplomacy and proxy war between Russia and the U.S. He delves into (...)