Pepe Escobar on Ahmadinejad at Columbia
September 27, 2007
Real News correspondent Pepe Escobar talks with Senior Editor Paul Jay about Ahmadinejad at Columbia University in a three-part interview.
Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Pepe Escobar writes The Roving Eye for Asia Times Online. He has reported from Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, U.S. and China. He is also the author of the soon to be published Red Zone Blues. (Also check out Escobar’s excellent article ‘Hitler’ Does New York)
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Who supplied the translator for Ahmadinejad? She is excruciating. It might as well have been Cheney.
I agree with ‘wondering’ that about the translator. Listening to her is like prison labor.
Separately, a US/UK/Israeli attack on Iran will inevitably pull Russia and China into a widening conflict and bankrupt the US. Venezuela will mess with their oil exports to the US as well, and foreign central banks will dump the dollar as oil spikes to $150/barrel. Neocons are burning the village to save it — both Iran’s village as well as America’s. Neocons are hell-spawned demons bent on destruction for its own sake.
I agree re translator. She mistranslated quite a few crucial statements, which can only exacerbate misunderstanding.
Re Russo-Chinese involvement. It is plausible that Russia may aid Iran indirectly to weaken US, but there is no way China would want to do that. Undermining US economy will bankrupt its own, which owns nearly $1 Trillion of US debt. US is also the biggest market for chinese products.
Venezuela is a different story. They got nothing to lose, and Chavez is a man of his words.
obviously something has to be done inside the US……….some action which would re-tune the thought process………..and allow our planet to survive……