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
The Dark Side of Hollywood w/ Albert Lanier: The Unsolved Murder of Bob Crane
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A Parallax Views Health Justice Fundraiser w/ Ben Burgis, Chuck Ochelli, Patrick Farnsworth, & Terry Tapp
Culture Wars: Antifa vs Alt Right Brawls, the Die Antwoord Controversy, & Epstein w/ Robbie Martin of Media Roots
Spaced Out Gonzo Swapcast w/ Wikileaks on Weed (Epstein, Andrew Yang/UBI, & General Mayhem)
Project Censored’s Mickey Huff on The United States of Distraction + #ManBunGuy Trump Protester & Comedian Sam Spadino!
Chatting w/ Streetfight Radio's Bryan Quinby About the Working Class, Comedy, & More
Parallax Views Gets Hit by the Ochelli Effect: A Conversation w/ Radio Host Chuck Ochelli
Showbiz Legend & Godfather of Reality TV John Barbour UNLEASHED & UNCENSORED!
Roberta Glass on Epstein, Dershowitz, the NXIVM Sex Cult, & Her Firsthand Trial Reporting Experiences
David Frum & the Post-Epstein Circus of DOOM! w/ JP Sottile
Conspiracy Theories in the Aftermath of Epstein w/ Gumby (@Gumby4Christ)
Libertarian Hunter DeRensis Critiques the National Conservatism Conference
NY Journalist Marlon Ettinger on Epstein’s Death, Unsealed Files, & Experiences Reporting at the Courthouse
Daniel Hopsicker Says We're Living on Gangster Planet: Organized Crime, Trump, & Epstein (+ QAnon Revealed?)
Arun Gupta on the No More Concentration Camps Movement/Remembering Investigative Satirist Paul Krassner w/ Joseph E. Green
ARG Pioneer Joseph Matheny on the Counterculture's Hijacking from Corporatization to QAnon
T.J. Coles on Boris Johnson, Neoliberalism, & The Great Brexit Swindle
Journalist Eric Draitser on Peter Thiel’s Palantir, ICE, & The Surveillance State (+ #29Leaks)
Pearse Redmond on The Sordid Saga of Jeffrey Epstein: The New Arrest
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