| | |  Americas & Beyond | July 2008 
Obama's Brave New World
 The Real Network
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In a major foreign policy speech in Washington, Senator Obama detailed his "five goals essential to making America safer" in case he's elected President - from ending the war on Iraq and confronting al Qaeda in Afghanistan to rebuilding US alliances around the world. Pepe Escobar discusses how Obama's policies differ from Senator John McCain's, and points to what he thinks are Obama's hits and misses.
Bio: Pepe Escobar, born in Brazil is the roving correspondent for Asia Times and an analyst for The Real News Network. He's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, based in London, Milan, Los Angeles, Paris, Singapore, and Bangkok. Since the late 1990s, he has specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central Asia, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has made frequent visits to Iran and is the author of Globalistan and also Red Zone Blues: A Snapshot of Baghdad During the Surge both published by Nimble Books in 2007. |
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