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Pepe Escobar (born 1954) is a Brazilian journalist and an independent geopolitical analyst focused on Eurasia. [1] [2] Escobar has lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Singapore and Bangkok. [3]
His column "The Roving Eye" for Asia Times Online [4] regularly discusses the multi-national "competition for dominance over the Middle East and Central Asia." [5]
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: [6]
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. [7] [8]
Escobar has focused on Central Asia, Russia the Middle East, and Iran since the late 1990s. [9]
Escobar has reported extensively from Afghanistan. [10] In August 2000, Escobar and two other journalists were arrested by the Taliban, and accused of photographing a soccer match. [11]
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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.'
The fact remains that, in the words of journalist and international relations analyst Pepe Escobar, 'Lula is Brazil's only possible factor of stability.'
The Asia Times' Pepe Escobar is always a good read when it comes to the Mid East and the War on Terror
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.
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.'
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.
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
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