USA-DPRK: Finding the answer to a riddle shrouded in a mystery
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
The art of the non-deal might be the only way out of the stand-off between the US and North Korea
High-level inter-Korean talks at the border village of Panmunjeom not only represent a vital step in Winter Olympics’ diplomacy but also offer ...
The New Great Game moves from Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific (I & II)
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Is the world's center of gravity shifting to the heart of the Indo-Pacific – a new pivot to Asia?
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda , Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China. Photo by cinderella-abc
In the context of the New Great Game in Eurasia, the New Silk ...
‘Say the Word’: What the Rohingya Struggle is Really About
- Ramzy Baroud رمزي بارود
Pope Francis lost a historical opportunity to truly set his legacy apart from previous Popes. Alas, for him, too, political expediency trumped all else. In his visit to Burma (Myanmar) on November 27, he refrained from using the word “ ...
Kim refuses to be intimidated
- The Japan Times
North Korea continued its defiance of the international community with the test of yet another ballistic missile Wednesday morning. In response to this latest outrage, concerned governments continue to try to muster a concerted effort to constrain ...
How the DPRK Riddle is Freaking out the US Establishment
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
The 19th Party Congress has made it very clear that “socialism with Chinese characteristics” – as codified by President Xi Jinping – is China’s roadmap ahead. Not only the strategy graphically eschews those much-lauded ...
Xi’s road map to the Chinese Dream
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
China's Belt and Road Initiative – the New Silk Road – will spark the country's development and turn the dream into reality
Now that President Xi Jinping has been duly elevated to the Chinese Communist Party pantheon in the rarified ...
Re-imagining a world beyond capitalism and communism
- Arundhati Roy
Excerpt from the book Walking with the Comrades (Penguin Books 2011) in which Arundhati reflects on her time spent with Maoist guerrilla insurgents in India. Her report, inItially published on Outlook Magazine, can be read here.
Dandakaranya landscape ...
A frightened dog barks louder
Statement on Donald Trump’s address to UN General Assembly
- Kim Jong-un 김정은 Ким Чен Ын 金正恩
The speech made by the US president in his maiden address on the UN arena in the prevailing serious circumstances, in which the situation on the Korean peninsula has been rendered tense as never before and is inching closer to a touch-and-go state, is ...
The Russia-China plan for North Korea: stability, connectivity
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Moscow has been busy building agreements that would extend Eurasian connectivity eastward. The question is how to convince the DPRK to play along
The United Nations Security Council’s 15-0 vote to impose a new set of sanctions on North Korea ...
9/11 and the unsolvable Afghan drama
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
With 9/11 fading into the past, there are now two possible solutions for Afghanistan: one involves the US while the other focuses on Asia
Sixteen years after 9/11, and the subsequent US bombing that toppled the Taliban, where do we stand?
Osama bin ...
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