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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The Bannon-Badolato Bust w/ Daniel Hopsicker
Rising Authoritarianism, the Neoliberal World Order, and the New Cold War w/ Richard Falk
How A Ragtag Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon w/ Jamie Holmes
Hollywood, the CIA, and "Progressives" in Tinseltown w/ Jim DiEugenio
Freedom, the Kenosha Shooting in Context, and More w/ Irami Osei-Frimpong
War in the Age of Trump w/ Patrick Cockburn
Voter Suppression w/ Actress & Activist Mimi Kennedy/Hidden History of Monopolies w/ Thom Hartmann
From Experimental Hip Hop to the BLM Moment w/ MC dälek
COVID-19 and the Triple Crisis w/ Dr. Jack Rasmus
Feds Target BlueLeaks Publisher & Other Pressing Matters w/ Journalist Ali Winston
The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism w/ Thomas Frank
New Indictment Against Julian Assange w/ Taylor Hudak
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World w/ Zakkiyah Iman Jackson
How Trump Stole 2020 w/ Investigative Journalist Greg Palast
Political Suicide: The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party w/ Political Cartoonist Ted Rall
Sleazy Mike Cernovich is Not a Friend of Epstein Victims w/ Marlon Ettinger
Mrs. America and Arch-Conservative Phyllis Schlafly w/ Eileen Jones
Ideology and the Virtual City: Videogames, Power Fantasies, and Neoliberalism w/ Jon Bailes
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