The total balkanization of culture in the U.S. into bulletproof containers of irrationality is precluding any possibility of civilized debate, Pepe Escobar writes.

Two decades after the fact, a political earthquake that should be rocking Brazil apart is being met with thunderous silence.

MAGA – which is a rehash of the American dream – simply cannot happen when society is viciously polarized; vast sectors of the middle class are being completely erased; and mass immigration is coming from the Global South.

The marriage of post-Lockdown and George Floyd protests has nurtured a rough beast that is still immune to any form of civilized debate in the U.S.

This is our choice: it’s either Neoliberal Restoration or a revolutionary rupture. And nothing in between.

We may have been set up for an endless biopolitical quarantine without even noticing it, Pepe Escobar writes.

The post-Planet Lockdown world – still a hazy mirage – may well need a post-Planet Lockdown currency.

How could U.S. intel have known about a contagion one month before Chinese doctors detected an unknown virus?

The absolutely key issue is how the West was caught completely unprepared for the spread of Covid-19 – even after being provided a head start of two months by China, and having the time to study different successful strategies applied across Asia.

On the surface, coronavirus is a dream bio-weapon for those fixated on wreaking havoc across China and praying for regime change.