Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s New York moment performed the diplomatic equivalent of bringing the house down, writes Pepe Escobar. Now picture a true gentleman, the foremost diplomat of these troubled times, in total command of the facts and endowed with a delightful sense of humor, taking a perilous walk on the wild side, to quote…
The Establishment has still not reckoned with the essential lie behind the invasion of Iraq that began 20 years ago today, March 19, 2003. As an example, a New York Times Magazine’s puff piece in July 2020, purportedly to come clean on Iraq, instead soft-peddles former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s role in selling a…
Rarely does the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations make an official remark expressing happiness over any U.N. proceeding concerning the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Indeed, the Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour is “very happy that there was a very strong united message from the Security Council against the illegal, unilateral measure” undertaken by the Israeli…
Lula has the constitutional power to reverse his predecessor Bolsonaro’s prior policy of voting against Russia at the UN but voluntarily chose to continue it, which discredits his Hybrid Warriors’s disinformation-driven copium campaign covering up for his condemnation of Russia alongside Biden earlier this month and confirms that he’s truly recalibrated his worldview to more…
Although he didn’t single any country out in the remarks that he shared about that resolution, there’s no doubt that Russia’s top UN diplomat Vasily Nebenzia’s sharp criticisms apply to Brazil just as much as they apply to every other country like the US and its European vassals that also supported it. The “Lula Liberals”,…
It is rare for international relations to be shaken as they were in 2022. And it is not over. The process that has begun will not stop, even if events disrupt it and possibly interrupt it for a few years. The domination of the West, both the United States and the former colonial powers of…
