{"id":44869,"date":"2019-03-29T08:09:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44869"},"modified":"2019-03-29T08:09:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T13:09:26","slug":"pepe-escobar-empire-of-chaos-in-hybrid-war-overdrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44869","title":{"rendered":"PEPE ESCOBAR: Empire of Chaos in Hybrid War Overdrive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PEPE ESCOBAR: Empire of Chaos in Hybrid War Overdrive<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration\u2019s foreign policy may be easily deconstructed as a crossover between The Sopranos and late-night comedy, writes Pepe Escobar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I<\/strong>s this the Age of Anxiety? The Age of Stupidity? The Age of Hybrid War? Or all of the above? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As right populism learns to use algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) and media convergence<\/a>, the Empire of Chaos<\/a>, in parallel, is unleashing all-out hybrid<\/a> and semiotic war. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dick Cheney\u2019s Global War on Terror (GWOT) is back, metastasized as a hybrid mongrel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But GWOT would not be GWOT without a Wild West scarecrow<\/a>. Enter Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama. On the same day the State Department announced <\/a>a $1 million bounty on his head, the so- called \u201cUN Security Council IS and Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee\u201d declared Hamza the next al-Qaeda leader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since January 2017, Hamza has been a Specially Designated Global Terrorist <\/a>by the State Department \u2013 on par with his deceased Dad, back in the early 2000s. The Beltway intel community \u201cbelieves\u201d<\/a> Hamza resides \u201cin the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember these are the same people who \u201cbelieved\u201d former Taliban leader Mullah Omar resided in Quetta, Baluchistan, when in fact he was safely ensconced only a few miles away from a massive U.S. military base in Zabul, Afghanistan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering that Jabhat al-Nusra, or al-Qaeda in Syria, for all practical purposes, was defined as no more than \u201cmoderate rebels\u201d by the Beltway intel community, it\u2019s safe to infer that new scarecrow Hamza is also a \u201cmoderate\u201d. And yet he\u2019s more dangerous than vanished fake Caliph Abu Baqr al-Baghdadi. Talk about a masterful example of culture jamming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Show Me The Big Picture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A hefty case can be made that the Empire of Chaos currently has no allies; it\u2019s essentially surrounded by an assortment of vassals, puppets and comprador 5th<\/sup>columnist elites professing varied degrees of \u2013 sometimes reluctant \u2013 obedience.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PEPE ESCOBAR: Empire of Chaos in Hybrid War Overdrive The Trump administration\u2019s foreign policy may be easily deconstructed as a crossover between The Sopranos and late-night comedy, writes Pepe Escobar. Is this the Age of Anxiety? The Age of Stupidity? The Age of Hybrid War? Or all of the above?  As right populism learns to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6963,4076,862],"class_list":["post-44869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44870,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44869\/revisions\/44870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}