Syria: A jihadi paradise – Syria not Afghanistan´s Tora Bora
By Pepe Escobar (AT-online) So Bashar al-Assad hath martially spoken - for the first time in seven months - predictably blaming the Syrian civil war on "terrorists" and "Western puppets". Turkish Foreign Minister More...
The deadly Israeli and the mad Turk
By Pepe Escobar - The inmates are running - or think they are running - the asylum. Tel Aviv may be inches away from turning the already declared economic war on Iran into a hot war. Take a look at this madness: More...
Blood on the (Bain) tracks
Blood on the (Bain) tracks By Pepe Escobar. Asia Times. - This is the moment everyone was waiting for in the 2012 US presidential campaign; the hardcore drawing of first blood. Whatever one's judgment on Nobel More...
NATOGCC Holy War Accelerate the End of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency
NATOGCC Holy War Accelerate the End of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency There will be hell to pay for NATO’s Holy War By Pepe Escobar - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is running out of rhetorical ammunition More...
Drone me down on the killing floor.
Drone me down on the killing floor. Lord knows, I should'a been gone Lord knows, I should'a been gone And I wouldn't've been here, down on the killin' floor - Howlin' Wolf, Killing Floor By Pepe Escobar. As convenient More...
The Art of War and a Glass of Wine.
The Art of War and a Glass of Wine. By Pepe Escobar. PARIS - There it was, magically empty, on a discreet corner, never spotted by the tourist magma; my favorite little table since the 1980s at the Cafe de Flore More...
Got war if you want it.
Got War if You Want it. By Pepe Escobar. Pentagon head Leon Panetta told ABC News that the US is "ready" to attack Iran. It depends on US President Barack Obama giving it a go. Will he or won't he? Nobel Prize More...
How Osama re-elects Obama
By Pepe Escobar - A nuclear deal with Iran? An organized retreat from Afghanistan? The eurozone picking up a little bit of steam? Stable oil prices? Forget it. The crucial foreign elector recruited for Obama II More...
War porn: The new safe sex
By Pepe Escobar - (This is the much-abridged version of a conference at the XII Seminar of Political Solidarity at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, March 27, 2012.) The early 21st century is addicted to war More...
Russia rules Pipelineistan
By Pepe Escobar - Nabucco - the alleged gas Holy Grail from the Caspian Sea to Europe, 4,000 kilometers from Turkey to Austria - is the perennial Pipelineistan soap opera. Part of the gas to supply Nabucco may More...
