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Escobar: The New Great Game, Revisited Authored by Pepe Escobar via 'Geopolitics Prime' substack, It took only a few Yemeni missiles on Saudi refineries to wake up “leadership” vectors of the Ummah; not over 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the death cult. The Mecca Sunni NATO pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan remains a puzzle. Or dodgy sub-standard theatre – complete with photo ops and sparse intel sharing. The full text has not been released. Everything is quite vague, only stressing “collective deterrence”. Against whom, it’s in the eyes of the...

"Critical Inflection Point" Reached As USA Rare Earth Expands With $2.8 Billion Serra Verde Buyout USA Rare Earth Inc. is acquiring Brazil’s Serra Verde Group in a roughly $2.8 billion cash-and-stock deal, part of a broader push by the U.S. and its allies to secure independent supplies of critical minerals, according to CNBC and Bloomberg.  The agreement includes $300 million in cash and a large share issuance, with the transaction expected to close in the third quarter. The deal comes amid rising concern over China’s dominance in rare earths—a group of 17...

Asia Burns More Coal As Middle East War Sends LNG Prices to 3-Year Highs Submitted by Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com, Coal is back with a bang in Asia’s power generation, as countries scramble to contain the LNG supply shortage due to the war in the Middle East. Coal hasn’t really left most Asian economies, which rely on the fuel for much of their power generation. Amid the squeeze of natural gas supply due to the de facto closed Strait of Hormuz and the sky-rocketing LNG prices that few buyers in Asia can...