Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael
Society & Culture
On this edition of Parallax Views, the long-time, sometimes controversial, and always fascinating geopolitical commentator Pepe Escobar joins Parallax Views to discuss some of the events the lead up to his the current decade we face, which he calls "The Raging Twenties". Although this conversation was initially intended to cover Pepe's new book Raging Twenties: Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism, Pepe and I ultimately went in a different direction. Our conversation became less focused on the details of the book and more an overview of the events, geopolitically, that lead to our current moment where tensions are rising between the U.S. and it allies against China, Russia, and Iran. As Pepe put it in the course of our conversation, our conversation serves as a preamble to many of the topics discussed in his new book (which is basically Pepe's coverage of the year 2020 from the death of General Soleimani to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Among the many topics we discuss:
- The Russia/Ukraine situation
- The Nordstream II pipeline, Germany, and Russia,
- The Iraq War and neoconservatives
- Pepe's interest in the ideas of Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze; Deleuze's concept of the rhizome
- Zbigniew Brzezinski and The Grand Chessboard of Geopolitics
- The Quad, India and Modi
- Euranianism, Putin, and China
- COVID-19, Giorgio Agamben, and the surveillance society
- The decline of the American Empire; Pax Americana and the Mongolian Empire
- Why Pepe references and uses imagery from David Lynch's Twin Peaks in his work
- The Belt and Road Initiative; the New Silk Road
- The multipolar world and what it means; the failures of the War on Terror; the corrosion of the Empire
Cuba & Ukraine Crisis w/ William LeoGrande/Gulf States & Ukraine Crisis w/ Kristian Ulrichsen/U.S. Foreign Policy & Ukraine w/ Daniel Bessner
Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, the Founding Father of Europe w/ Martyn Bond/Russia and Sanctions w/ Brian Grodsky
Soaring Gas Prices & the Economy w/ Mike Swanson/Putin’s Game in Ukraine w/ Larry Hancock
The Cloak-and-Dagger, Hall of Mirrors World of the Donbass w/ Aaron Lake Smith/Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2022 w/ Mickey Huff
Ukraine Crisis w/ John Feffer
Putin’s Ukraine Gamble, War, and Hubris w/ Patrick Cockburn
Ukraine Crisis w/ Zachary Paikin/World Beyond War w/ David Swanson
Ukraine Crisis w/ Kuba Wrzesniewski
Ukraine Crisis w/ James W. Carden
70s Blaxploitation Cinema and Its Pop Culture Legacy w/ Thaddeus Russell & Kamasi Hill
The Palestinian Struggle and Human Rights w/ Dr. Hanan Ashrawi/The 2022 Israel Lobby Con w/ Grant F. Smith
The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression w/ A. Dirk Moses
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution w/ Lindsay M. Chervinsky
The Golden Age of Islamic Philosophy + Muhammad Ali Jinnah w/ Amb. Akbar Ahmed/Global Wealth Inequality w/ Chuck Collins
Cuba: The 60 Year Embargo, the Pandemic Response, & Havana Syndrome w/ Dr. Mitchell Valdés Sosa/Foreign Interventions & Turmoil in Libya (+ Gulf Politics & Yemen) w/ Giorgio Cafiero
The Azov Battalion and U.S. Support of the Ukrainian Far-Right w/ Lev Golinkin
FIXED: Havana Syndrome, TikTok Tics, & Mass Psychogenic Saber-Rattling/The Lucrative Business of Anti-Vaxx? w/ Mia Jankowicz/Amensty International Israel/Palestine Report w/ Stephen Zunes
Breaking Through the Propaganda on Israel/Palestine w/ Sut Jhally & Roger Waters/NSO Group Spyware Scandal Deepens w/ Nick Cleveland-Stout & Taylor Giorno
Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire w/ Michael Hudson/The Failure of the British Left w/ James A. Smith
20 Years of Guantanamo Bay (+ Exclusive Syria News) w/ Letta Tayler/Countering Drug Policy and Addiction Misinformation w/ Maia Szavalitz
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