Scott Horton Interviews Pepe Escobar
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Pepe Escobar, journalist and author of Obama Does Globalistan, discusses why his article “Why the Syrian regime won’t fall” could prove false if major demonstrations break out in the largest urban areas, including Damascus and Aleppo; whether Turkey’s mediation can prevent the slaughter of civilian protesters in the street; the despots-in-waiting groomed by Saudi Arabia to fill vacancies in Syria and Yemen; the proposed Saudi Arabian “anti-terrorism” law that would send critics of the regime to prison for ten years; the crushed rebellion in Bahrain, thanks to stormtroopers from the GCC; and why we shouldn’t hold our breath for a democratic reform government in Yemen.
MP3 here. (20:07)
Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving Into Liquid War and Obama Does Globalistan.
An extreme traveler, Pepe’s nose for news has taken him to all parts of the globe. 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. Two weeks before September 11, 2001, while Pepe was in the tribal areas of Pakistan, Asia Times Online published his prophetic piece, “Get Osama! Now! Or else …” Pepe was one of the first journalists to reach Kabul after the Taliban’s retreat, and more recently he has explored and reported from Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, US and China.
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August 16th, 2011 at 5:08 am
I just started reading a biography of Asad's father which has been sitting on my shelf for several years. Not much to report yet, except that the 20thC (& earlier) history & religious makeup of the country is, of course, much more complicated than I had any notion.
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September 6th, 2011 at 11:34 am
Since these "demonstrations" are contrivance created by the US and Israel, color-coded Gene Sharp revolutions, with the "humanitarian concern" created by more "al Qaeda" sniping ordinary Syrians; there is and never has been a popular resistance in Syria.
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