by Pepe Escobar, first published at The Cradle, reposted here with the author’s permission The adoption of commodity-backed currencies by the Global South could upend the US dollar’s dominance and level the playing field in international trade. Let’s start with three ...

Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog Shadows are falling / And I’ve been here all day / It’s too hot to sleep / And time is running away / Feel like my soul / has turned into steel /I’ve still ...

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This “news” was weeks in the making, but this time it is official: the city of Soledar has been liberated by the Wagner PMC (with Russian Airborne Forces blocking the city from the North and South). Why did it take ...

Machine translation of this article: https://m.vz.ru/society/2023/1/9/1194217.html Having abandoned the Christmas truce, Kiev received painful breakthroughs in the defense line in the Donbass. The Russian Armed Forces have achieved decisive success in Soledar and Artemovsk-important strategic points that the Ukrainian command is ...

by Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and widely cross-posted 2023 starts with collective NATO in Absolutely Freak Out Mode as Russian Defense Minister Shoigu announces that Russian Navy frigate Admiral Gorshkov is now on tour – complete with a set ...

Washington is concerned by a Russian cargo ship’s visit to a naval base in South Africa, an American official has told the WSJ. Relations between Washington and Pretoria have become strained after a Russian cargo ship visited South Africa’s largest ...

The outgoing CEO of South Africa’s state power company Eskom, Andre de Ruyter, has told the country’s police that he survived an alleged attempt to poison him with cyanide at the end of 2022. The incident reportedly occurred on December ...

According to the report of Eye for Humanity, in the last seven years of the Yemen war, bombings carried out by the Saudi-led coalition have killed 17,734 people and injured close to 30,000. According to its data, at least 4,017 ...