Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for
Hong Kong/Thailand-based
Asia Times Online. He has lived
and worked as a foreign correspondent in London, Paris, Milan, Los
Angeles and Singapore/Bangkok. Since 9/11 he has extensively covered
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Iran, Iraq and the wider Middle East, and is also a regular analyst for The Real News Network.
He is the author of
Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into
Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007), as well as contributing editor to
The
Empire and the Crescent (published in the U.K.),
Tutto in Vendita (published
in Italy) and
Shia Power: Next Target Iran? (published in the
US/U.K.) His latest book is
Red Zone Blues: A snapshot of Baghdad in the surge (Nimble Books, 2007). When not on the road, he lives between Sao Paulo, Paris and
Bangkok.