Pepe Escobar
Emilio "Pepe" Escobar (born 1954 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian journalist. He is known for his association with online alternative media, and his works have appeared in publications such as Asia Times, Mondialisation.ca, CounterPunch, Al-Jazeera, Press TV, Russia Today, Sputnik, Strategic Culture Foundation and Guancha. He started as a music critic in Brazil where he has written for the newspapers Folha de S.Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo and Gazeta Mercantil, the magazine CartaCapital, the online news portal Brasil 247 and has appeared as a commentator on TV 247. In the late 1980s, he started working as a foreign correspondent and has since written about Asia, the Middle East, Russia and U.S. foreign policy.
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