[Cathi]

“Your source works for Russian intelligence and the Defense Ministry of Russia....Just sayin.”
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Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian journalist and geopolitical analyst. His column “The Roving Eye” for Asia Times regularly discusses the multi-national “competition for dominance over the Middle East and Central Asia.”

[Apparatchik]

“Your source works for Russian intelligence and the Defense Ministry of Russia....Just sayin.”
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Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian journalist and geopolitical analyst. His column “The Roving Eye” for Asia Times regularly discusses the multi-national “competition for dominance over the Middle East and Central Asia.”

Cut-and-Paste Cathi clearly cut and pasted that blurb about Escobar from Wikipedia (she’s so lazy) but curiously left out this:

The United States State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC) has identified several outlets that publish or republish work by Escobar as being used by Russia for propaganda and disinformation. In 2020, the GEC stated that both the Strategic Culture Foundation (SCF) and Global Research, two online journals where Escobar's work has appeared, acted as pro-Russian propaganda sites.According to the GEC, "Pepe Escobar began writing articles for Global Research in 2005 and ten years later became an SCF author.

Escobar has also been a commentator for RT and Sputnik News; both outlets were highlighted in a 2022 GEC report as members of "Russia's disinformation and propaganda ecosystem."[31] Ukrainian journalist Volodymyr Yermolenko describes Escobar as an example of "anti-Western intellectuals" hosted by RT, adding that Escobar suggests "dividing Ukraine between Poland and Russia."

In 2012, Jesse Zwick at The New Republic asked Escobar why he was willing to work with RT; Escobar replied, "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.”

On February 25, 2022, the Spanish newspaper ABC criticized Escobar's Sputnik comments concerning Ukraine and other topics, calling them "the usual ones of Russian disinformation: 'Yankee' imperialism, NATO excesses, Russian victimization."

I wonder why.