User:HouseOfChange/Pepe Escobar

Pepe Escobar (born 1954) is a Brazilian journalist and an independent geopolitical analyst focused on Eurasia. Escobar has lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Singapore and Bangkok.

His column "The Roving Eye" for Asia Times Online regularly discusses the multi-national "competition for dominance over the Middle East and Central Asia."

Escobar is also a frequent commentator on Russia's RT and Sputnik News, telling The New Republic in 2012 that he was not troubled by its Russian sponsorship: "I knew the Kremlin involvement, but I said, why not use it? After a few months, I was very impressed by the American audience. There are dozens of thousands of viewers. A very simple story can get 20,000 hits on YouTube. The feedback was huge."

Escobar is also a regular contributor to Al Jazeera.

Escobar has focused on Central Asia, Russia the Middle East, and Iran since the late 1990s.

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.