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Pepe Escobar (born 1954) is a Brazilian journalist. He writes a column - The Roving Eye - for ''Asia Times Online'', and works as an analyst for RT as well as Al Jazeera and Iran's Press TV.〔(Al Jazeera bio of Escobar )〕 Escobar has focused on Central Asia and the Middle East, and has covered Iran on a continuous basis since the late 1990s.〔Sharma, Dinesh and Gielen, Uwe, "About the Contributors", ''The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century'', Routledge 2013〕 Escobar has reported extensively from Afghanistan. In August 2000, Escobar and two other journalists were arrested by the Taliban, and accused of photographing a soccer match.〔Dartnell, Michael York, ''Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict'', University of Toronto Press, 2006, p. 56〕 The following year, he interviewed Ahmad Shah Masoud, the military leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, shortly before Masoud was assassinated.〔(Biography of Escobar ) at ''Asia Times''〕 On television, Escobar has commented on Russia's RT network, Iran's PressTV, and Qatar's Al Jazeera's ''The Stream''. On radio, he has been a guest on Sibel Edmonds' ''Boiling Frogs Show'', ''The Peter B. Collins Show'', ''Anti-War Radio with Scott Horton'', ''What Really Happened Show'', ''Corbett Report'', The Voice of Russia's ''Burning Point'', Ernest Hancock's FreedomPhoenix.com and ''The Alex Jones Show''. His article, "Get Osama! Now! Or else...", predicting US intervention in Afghanistan, was published by ''Asia Times Online'' two weeks before the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. An excerpted paragraph from his column of August 30, 2001: After the Metrojet Flight 9268 crash that killed all 217 passengers and seven crew members, albeit intelligence reports concluding that the cause of the crash an explosion, and ISIL taking responsibility for the downing of the plane, Escobar insinuated that it was Israel who was responsible(). ==Bibliography== * Escobar, P. 2007, ''Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War'', Nimble Books. * Escobar, P. 2007, ''Red Zone Blues: A Snapshot of Baghdad During the Surge'', Nimble Books. * Escobar, P. 2009, ''Obama Does Globalistan'', Nimble Books. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pepe Escobar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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