par Pepe Escobar

Imaginez le "Meilleur des Mondes" doté de nouvelles voies de communication mondiales opérationnelles qui contournent tous les goulets d'étranglement occidentaux. Imaginez maintenant que toutes les transactions commerciales sur ces voies soient réglées en monnaies locales, via des plateformes de transaction régionales, grâce à des investissements exclusivement eurasiens.

par Moon of Alabama

Une nouvelle attaque menée par Ansarullah au Yémen a endommagé trois installations de production pétrolière en Arabie saoudite. La raffinerie d'ARAMCO à Jizan, d'une capacité de 400 000 barils par jour (b/j), a été mise hors service. Les cours du pétrole brut ont augmenté :

"À 08 h 00 GMT, les contrats à terme sur le Brent avaient progressé de 2 dollars, soit 2,06%, pour atteindre 99 dollars le baril (bbl), a rapporté Reuters.

Tim Kirby

It is unlikely that the CIA director just came all that way on a specialized cargo aircraft to say "we give up", but perhaps that was the essence of the discussions.

Oh how I wish in my heart that U.S.-Russian relations looked like the love-fest between Moscow and Beijing. Every time there is a meeting between Putin and Xi there is so much fanfare with good spirits and a feeling that humanity is on the right track.

Finian Cunningham

The shockwave reaction to the Alternative für Deutschland landslide election victory in Germany is absurdly out of proportion.

The shockwave reaction to the Alternative für Deutschland landslide election victory in Germany is absurdly out of proportion. It also defies any easy categorization of conventional right, left, or centrist politics.

What it does signify is a massive popular protest against the warmongering political establishment in Europe and the United States.

Lorenzo Maria Pacini

Leaders are not irrelevant: they determine the timing and form of détente.

The end of unrestrained competition?

For nearly a decade, the relationship between the United States and China has been viewed through a single lens: that of strategic competition. This framework had the merit of acknowledging a reality - the end of the illusion, cultivated in the 1990s and 2000s, that economic integration would make China a "responsible" actor within an American-led order - but it also came at an analytical cost.

Martin Jay

Qual è la battuta, Putin, Xi e Modi ? Beh, in realtà è Trump - le cui buffonate infantili ci stanno rendendo tutti ricchi.

Qual era la battuta ? Quando i leader di Cina, Russia e India si sono riuniti di recente all'incontro dell'Organizzazione per la Cooperazione di Shanghai (SCO), hanno avuto un momento divertente per qualche secondo, ripreso dai media di tutto il mondo e ampiamente condiviso sui social media.