Pepe Escobar

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Pepe Escobar on RT America in 2012

Pepe Escobar (born 1954) is a Brazilian journalist and international policy analyst[1][2] whose column "The Roving Eye" for Asia Times Online[3] regularly discusses the multi-national "competition for dominance over the Middle East and Central Asia."[4]

Escobar is also a frequent commentator on Russia's RT and Sputnik News, telling The New Republic in 2012 that he was not troubled by its Russian sponsorship:[5]

I knew the Kremlin involvement, but I said, why not use it? After a few months, I was very impressed by the American audience. There are dozens of thousands of viewers. A very simple story can get 20,000 hits on YouTube. The feedback was huge.

Escobar is also a regular contributor to Al Jazeera.[6][7]

Escobar has focused on Central Asia, Russia the Middle East, and Iran since the late 1990s.[8]

Escobar has reported extensively from Afghanistan.[9] In August 2000, Escobar and two other journalists were arrested by the Taliban, and accused of photographing a soccer match.[10]

Bibliography[]

  • Escobar, P. (2007), Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War, Nimble Books.
  • Escobar, P. (2007), Red Zone Blues: A Snapshot of Baghdad During the Surge, Nimble Books.
  • Escobar, P. (2009), Obama Does Globalistan, Nimble Books.
  • Escobar, P. (2014), Empire of Chaos, Nimble Books.
  • Escobar, P. (2015), 2030, Nimble Books.
  • Escobar, P. (2016), 2030, suivi de Dialogues inactuels (Jorge Luis Borges), Éditions du Cercle.

References[]

  1. ^ "Obama's Asia summit no-show: How it looks from over there". Mercury News. October 8, 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2021. Most colorfully, Brazilian analyst Pepe Escobar compared China’s 'offensive' in Southeast Asia to 'an accelerating Lamborghini Aventador,' in contrast to America’s 'creaking Chevrolet.'
  2. ^ "Bernie Has Called to Free Lula. Why Won't the Rest of the Democratic Field?". Jacobin. October 22, 2019. Retrieved August 30, 2021. The fact remains that, in the words of journalist and international relations analyst Pepe Escobar, 'Lula is Brazil’s only possible factor of stability.'
  3. ^ Macaulay, Scott (June 20, 2004). "Basic Bollywood Instinct". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved August 30, 2021. The Asia Times' Pepe Escobar is always a good read when it comes to the Mid East and the War on Terror
  4. ^ Rosenthal, Steven J. (2010). "The US Foreign Policy and the Middle East". Policy Perspectives. 7 (1): 11–14. Retrieved August 29, 2021. Brazilian journalist Pepe Escobar, who writes regularly for 'Asia Times Online,' has published highly informative articles and books on the global battles over what he has described as 'Pipelinestan.' With a wry and cynical sense of humor, his 'Roving Eye' has described the competition for dominance over the Middle East and Central Asia.
  5. ^ Zwick, Jesse (March 14, 2012). "Pravda Lite". New Republic. Retrieved August 30, 2021. Pepe Escobar, a left-wing writer for Asia Times and frequent guest on RT, was happy to pile on, making the case that, in the United States, 'we had a stolen election in 2000 [and] we had a semi-stolen election in 2004.'
  6. ^ Bakshian, Aram Jr. (January 10, 2012). "The Unlikely Rise of Al Jazeera". The Atlantic. Retrieved August 30, 2021. A look at the list of Al Jazeera correspondents, commentators and anchors offers dramatic proof of its cosmopolitan breadth. You are not likely to find names like Nick Clark, Dan Hind, Richard Falk, Ronnie Vernooy, Pepe Escobar, Corey Robin, David Zirin, Amanda Robb and Danny Schechter on any list of Muslim extremists.
  7. ^ Al Jazeera bio and articles of Pepe Escobar
  8. ^ Sharma, Dinesh and Gielen, Uwe, "About the Contributors", The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century, Routledge 2013
  9. ^ "Pepe Escobar about Afghanistan". KBOO FM. March 16, 2009. Retrieved August 29, 2021. He was in Afghanistan and interviewed the military leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Masoud, a couple of weeks before his assassination (Masoud: From warrior to statesman, Sept 11, 2001). Two weeks before September 11, while Pepe was in the tribal areas of Pakistan, 'The Asia Times' published his prophetic piece, Get Osama! Now! Or else. (Aug 30, 2001). Pepe was one of the first journalists to reach Kabul after the Taliban's retreat
  10. ^ Dartnell, Michael York, Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict, University of Toronto Press, 2006, p. 56

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