Tag: By Pepe Escobar
Pepe Escobar: The West and the Rest in a One-Model-Fits-All World: The Decline and Fall of Just About Everyone
September 2011 |
If the West is going down, and Atlantic bust is giving way to Pacific boom, what’s to be made of the fate of a planet in the embrace of a single grim model of economic “development?” |
Pepe Escobar: Is Egypt the Future IndoTurkeZil?: So Many Ways to Strut Your Democratic Stuff in a New World
March 2011 |
“Three mummies were recently found in an underground temple in Luxor, Egypt. Translated hieroglyphs identified them as the Clash of Civilizations, the End of History, and Islamophobia. They ruled in Western domains into the second decade of the twenty-first century before dying and being embalmed.” |
Pepe Escobar: China’s Pipelineistan “War”: Anteing Up, Betting, and Bluffing in the New Great Game
October 2010A pipeline connecting Turkmenistan and China is the “Silk Road” of the twenty first century, and suggests that the race for natural resources might define a new global order.
