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
REPLAY: Mike Gravel on His Life, the Pentagon Papers, & Direct Democracy
Revisiting Oliver Stone’s NIXON (And More!) w/ Film Producer Eric Hamburg
Foreign Lobbies, Influence Peddling, and Think Tanks w/ Ben Freeman
The Iranian Election, Sanctions, & the JCPOA w/ Dr. Assal Rad
REPLAY: The John McAfee Interview
Dennis Kucinich's Crusade Against Corruption w/ Dennis Kucinich
Taking a Human Rights-Centric Approach to Israel/Palestine w/ Zaha Hassan
International Law and Israel/Palestine w/ UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk
The Iranian Elections, Gen. Soleimani, and Geopolitics w/ Arash Azizi
Israel/Palestine & the One Democratic State Campaign w/ Jeff Halper
Emily Wilder's Firing by the Associated Press w/ Ari Paul
Afghanistan, the U.S. Withdrawal, and the War on Drugs w/ Inge Fyklund
The Pro-Trump, 'Anti-Deep State' Deep State Plot Against Gen. McMaster? w/ Russ Baker
Leak Reveals Power Shift to Hardliners Ahead of Iranian Election w/ Gareth Porter
An Inside View of the UN and Sanctions w/ Hans-Christof Von Sponeck
The Israel/Palestine Conflict, International Law, and Human Rights w/ John Dugard
The Israel/Palestine Conflict, U.S. Public Opinion, and Gaza w/ Phyllis Bennis
The Israel/Palestine Conflict and Wither AIPAC? w/ Atty. Scott Horton
The Israel/Palestine Conflict and U.S. Foreign Policy w/ Prof. Stephen Zunes
The Israel/Palestine Conflict and The Specter of Meir Kahane w/ Yossi Gurvitz
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