Isis defeated in syria and iraq main street media ignores it. Those who think israel carried out strikes against syria without consulting the us should go back to kindergarten. Cw destruction in me should include israels arsenal tehran fna prominent brazilian investigative journalist pepe escobar says that israels huge chemical and nuclear weapons arsenal should also be part of the destruction of chemical weapons in the middle east. So many ways to strut your democratic stuff in a new world by pepe escobar. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Pepe escobar is the roving correspondent for asia timeshong kong, an analyst for rt and tomdispatch, and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows ranging from the us to east asia.
After all, contradictions to use a classic marxist word abound. Following the damascuskurdish alliance, syria may become the biggest defeat for the central intelligence agency since vietnam, says pepe escobar. Lets start with the geopolitical big bang you know nothing about, the one that occurred just two weeks ago. The vineyard of the saker the vineyard of the saker total. Pepe escobar, that edgy, peripatetic globetrotting reporter for one of my favorite online publications, asia times, has been doing just that for tomdispatch readers as he explores the geography that undergirds our civilization, the pipelines that crisscross eurasia through which flow energy and trouble. With the heart of the matter featuring a vicious geopolitical competition between two proposed gas pipelines, it is the. Syria, iran and chaos in international relations the. These buttons register your public agreement, disagreement, thanks, lol, or troll with the selected comment. He writes for asia times online, rt, opednews, sputnik, tomdispatch, china central television and before al jazeera. Pipelineistan at workpepe escobar is the roving correspondent for asia timeshong kong, an analyst for rt and tomdispatch, and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows ranging from the us to east asia. Pise za rt, sputnik i tomdispatch, i cesto doprinosi web sajtovima i radio i tv emisijama, od amerike do. Today pepe escobar of joins us to untangle the confusing mess of the syria ceasefire and tell us what it really means. With the heart of the matter featuring a vicious geopolitical competition between two proposed gas pipelines, it is the ultimate pipelinestan war, the term i coined long.
His new book, empire of chaos, will be published in november by nimble books. A crash course in somalization, from syria to kenya. Turkey has the guarantee by the russians that the syrian army will be in control of the turkishsyrian border. Join facebook to connect with pepe escobar and others you may know. From syria and iraq to ukraine, from afpak to libya, from iran to russia, and from the persian gulf to china, foreign correspondent pepe escobar, author of the. Pepe escobar is a brazilian investigative journalist. Pepe escobar is an analyst for rt and tomdispatch, and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows. Covering geopolitical news and current affairs across asia asia times is a panasia online news platform covering politics, economics, business and culture from an asian perspective.
Nobody is talking about israels huge chemical and nuclear weapons arsenal, as they should also be part of the program for the destruction of chemical weapons in the middle east,said pepe escobar in an interview with the fars news agency. Pepe escobar is always provocative, always surprises, and so i read his essays at asia times without fail. With a chapter on iran, he is a contributing editor to the global obama. With the heart of the matter featuring a vicious geopolitical competition between two proposed gas pipelines, it is the ultimate pipelinestan war, the term i coined long ago for. He writes for rt, sputnik and tomdispatch, and is a frequent contributor to websites and. Check out the newest dispatch book, rebecca solnits men explain things to me. Is obamas red line regarding chemical weapons just a hoax. Syrias pipelineistan war pepe escobar souria houria. The widespread panic over the virus is anything but stoic, so its unclear to me how this pandemic supposedly has made us all into stoics. The gift and that brings up the question, once again, of how daesh was able last year to conquer mosul the second city in iraq without a fight. As that peripatetic reporter for asia times and tomdispatch regular pepe escobar indicates in todays vivid plunge into chinas roiled waters, that country faces potentially staggering problems. Pepe escobar is the roving correspondent for asia times, a tomdispatch regular, and a political analyst for aljazeera and rt. It is one of the fastest growing news sites in the world. Today pepe escobar of joins us to untangle the confusing mess of the syria ceasefire and tell us what it.
The fact is that at least for the moment, while his game in syria may be going down the drain, erdogan has decided to change the subject and turbocharge his strategy for breaking up iraq. He writes for rt, sputnik and tomdispatch, and is a frequent contributor to websites and radio and tv. May 08, 20 with the israeli bombing of syria, will the syrian civil war spread throughout the region. Thats why tomdispatch speripatetic reporter pepe escobar, who roams eurasia, especially the region he long ago dubbed pipelineistan, is like a breath of fresh air. Feb 24, 2016 making sense of the syria ceasefire with pepe escobar corbettreport. As that peripatetic and irrepressible roving correspondent for asia times and tomdispatch regular pepe escobar points out, this may not, in the end, be the only way in which egyptians break new ground in a very old world. Pepe escobar, new silk roads and an alternate eurasian century tomgram. Apr 18, 2018 pepe escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst. Pepe escobar is an independent political analyst who writes for rt and sputnik, and is a tomdispatch regular. November 10, 2017 information clearing house two days ago, the syrian arab army saa, supported by russian air power, finally took control of albu kamal the last daesh base in the syriairaq border.
Pepe escobar is the roving correspondent for asia times, an analyst for rt and sputnik, and a tomdispatch regular. Imagine, for a moment, a world in which the united states is a regional power, not a superpower. James shea, deputy assistant secretary of emerging threats at nato now thats a lovely title recently gave a talk at a private club in london on the islamic statedaesh. The several hundred republicans who have thrown their hats into the ring for the 2016 presidential race. Making sense of the syria ceasefire with pepe escobar. Follow tomdispatch on twitter and join us on facebook and tumblr. Obamas strategy of different tactics only has one aim which is not peace in syria, asia times correspondent pepe escobar says. Crippled in syria, turkey goes for a sunnistan in iraq rt. He writes for rt, sputnik and tomdispatch, and is a frequent contributor to websites and radio and tv shows ranging from the us to east asia.
Pepe escobar, pipelineistan goes afpak tomdispatch. Many people have been puzzled as to why the west is intent on supporting extremist islamists in syria. How the globalized world is dissolving into liquid war. Freedom fries are a thing of the past and everyone agrees on the need to support france and on more or less nothing else. Jun 20, 20 its a great story, but hold your horses. What the us does have is roughly 2,000 special forces embedded with the kurdish ypg in the landlocked. Pepe escobar, welcome to pipelineistan tomdispatch. A crash course in somalization, from syria to kenya by pepe.
Their advances on the ground, and on the record, speak for themselves. Oct 12, 2010 chinas pipelineistan war anteing up, betting, and bluffing in the new great game by pepe escobar reprinted with permission of tomdispatch. Pepe escobar, inside chinas new normal tomdispatch. At the top of their game the stoics made it clear that the difference between life and death was insignificant, compared with the difference between virtue and vice. Follow tomdispatch on twitter and join us on facebook. Pepe escobar, the pivot to eurasia russia news now. In the fight against isis, russia aint taking no prisoners pepe escobar. He is the former roving correspondent for asia times online.
Nov 22, 2015 in such an atmosphere of rancor and pure warhawkishness, its increasingly hard to remember what a more peaceable world looked and sounded like. Pepe escobar is a first class investigative journalist. Yet it does not make any sense whatsoever that only two days before another international conference on syria, and immediately after the white house was forced to admit that the syrian people should choose their destiny and assad must go is over and done with, damascus should launch a counterproductive gas attack antagonizing the. Syrias pipelineistan war pepe escobar article publie sur souria houria le 8 aout 2012 deep beneath damascus volcano and the battle of aleppo, the tectonic plates of the global energy chessboard keep on rumbling. How china and russia are running rings around washington. New silk roads and an alternate eurasian century a specter haunts the fastaging new american century. Can china and russia squeeze washington out of eurasia. Pepe escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst. Pepe escobar, the new great game between china and the u.
March 09, 2016 information clearing house rtbrics is the dirtiest of acronyms in the beltwaywall street axis, and for a solid reason. During iraq war ii 20032011, i used to imagine that the chinese leadership would gather. Pepe escobar, pipelineistans new silk road future historians may well agree that the twentyfirst century silk road first opened for. Pepe escobar is the roving correspondent for asia timeshong kong, an analyst for rt, and a tomdispatch regular. The several hundred republicans who have thrown their hats into the ring for the 2016 presidential race and the war hawks in congress mainly but hardly only republicans have already been in full howl about the vienna nuclear deal with iran. Shea, as many will remember, made his name as natos spokesman during the nato war on yugoslavia in 1999. Pipelineistan goes afpak, by pepe escobar, voltaire network, 14 may 2009. How russia is smashing the turkish game in syria make no mistake that moscow will inflict as. His latest book is obama does globalistan nimble books, 2009. He has been foreign correspondent since 1985 and reported from afghanistan in 2000 where he was arrested and accused of being a spy. He writes a column the roving eye for asia times online, and works as an analyst for rt, sputnik news, and press tv.
Interview 1140 pepe escobar untangles the syrian ceasefire. Pepe escobar, new silk roads and an alternate eurasian century posted by pepe escobar at 4. Isis defeated in syria and iraq main street media ignores it by pepe escobar. Nato member turkey is already involved in covert ops in syria, allied with hardcore fundamentalist. Apr 21, 2018 syria, iran and chaos in international relations by pepe escobar the saker even in the context of a posttruth geopolitical environment run amok, russian president vladimir putin telling his iranian counterpart hassan rouhani over the phone that any further. Daesh may rule the desert bedouin culture, but its jabhat alnusra that captured significant sunni support in big urban centers such as aleppo. In iraq, the borders between the three large communities sunni, shiite, kurd are more or less frozen. Gost emisije intervju bio je gospodin pepe escobar, strucnjak za geopoliticke odnose. Tomdispatchs peripatetic eurasian correspondent, hes the man who discovered pipelinestan, which, by the. Pepe escobar is the roving correspondent for asia times, an analyst for aljazeera and the russian network rt, and a tomdispatch regular. Pepe escobar pepe escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst.
How russia is smashing the turkish game in syria pepe escobar. Pipelineistan at workpepe escobar is the roving correspondent for asia timeshong kong, an analyst for rt and tomdispatch, and. Geneva 2 meaningless unless all parties, including. Pepe escobar, new silk roads and an alternate eurasian century no matter how often washington remixes its global war on terror, the tectonic plates of. From syria and iraq to ukraine, from afpak to libya, from iran to russia, and from the persian gulf to china, foreign correspondent pepe escobar, author of the roving eye column for asia timeshong kong, crisscrosses what the pentagon calls the arc of instability.
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