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
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Masonic History and Is QAnon an Op? w/ Robbie Martin
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America w/ Michael Hiltzik
America in Crisis from the 2020 Election to Foreign Policy w/ Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Angela Walker
War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers w/ Benjamin Teitelbaum
The Sordid Saga of Donald Trump w/ David Cay Johnston
Trump's Plan, the Supreme Court, and the Election w/ Dr. Jack Rasmus
Double Feature Pt. 2: Deutsche Bank Report on “The Age of Disorder” w/ Charles Hugh Smith
Double Feature Pt. 1.: OnlyFans or OnlyScams? w/ Scott Stedman & Sophie Pierce
OnlyFans or OnlyScams? w/ Scott Stedman & Sophie Pierce/Deutsche Bank Report on "The Age of Disorder" w/ Charles Hugh Smith
The Unraveling of America w/ Anthropologist Wade Davis
Romania and the Political Economy of Fake News w/ Maria Cernat
The Press in the Age of Trump w/ Ken Silverstein of Washington Babylon
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Fear and Loathing in the Authoritarian Nightmare w/ John W. Dean
J.G. Michael Talks Alternative Media on Along the Line
Freedom, the Social Bill of Rights, & the Federal Jobs Guarantee w/ Senatorial Candidate Richard Dien Winfield
Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented? w/ Former FBI Agent Mark Rossini
The Council for National Policy, Or the Radical Right‘s Shadow Network w/ Anne Nelson
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