The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Pepe Escobar: No Respite for France as ‘New Africa’ Rises African states are one-by-one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. They are saying “non” to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic and security affairs. Day Over, July 2019, Yanounde, Cameroon.  (Rikyelle Momo Nguematio, Wikimedia Commons,  CC BY-SA 4.0) By  Pepe Escobar B y adding two new African member-states to its roster, last months’ summit in Johannesburg heralding  the expanded BRICS 11  showed once again that Eurasian integration is inextricably linked to the integration of Afro-Eurasia. Belarus is now proposing to hold a joint summit between BRICS 11, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU).  President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s vision for the convergence of these multilateral organizations may, in due time, lead to the Mother of All Multipolarity Summits. But Afro-Eurasia is a much more complicated proposition. Africa still lags far behi

  Deep State Spotlight: Victoria Nuland Why the High Priestess of the Security State Transcends Partisan Politics RYAN DELARME Countless politicians in America today have experienced meteoric ascensions to the upper echelons of government for no real, discernible reason. It seems as though the requirements for becoming a deep state pawn are minimal beyond the prospective candidate's willingness to forsake their constituents to appease an international ruling class. In this article, we are going to take a good, hard look at Neocon warhawk Victoria Nuland, somebody who’s managed to maintain substantial power regardless of which political party is in control of American politics. Her career serves to remind us that there is a class of deep-state assets that exist beyond the confines of party affiliation and that these consequential individuals who fly under the radar are often far more dangerous than the ones who receive constant partisan criticism. We are told that we, the people, ha