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VIDEO: Understanding the insane appeal of Argentina’s Javier Milei
Renowned Argentine sociologist and anti-imperialist critic Atilio Boron joins The Grayzone to discuss the victory of former tantric sex coach and emotionally unhinged liberatarian economic fundamentalist Javier Milei as the country’s president. Boron explains why the desperate popular sectors of Argentina fell for Milei’s shtick, and forecasts a violent rebellion of the president-elect’s economic austerity plans come to pass.
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War criminal Kissinger, one of history’s biggest mass murderers, dead at 100
Right-wing friend of dictators and murderers, whose orders killed millions, has died
Henry Kissinger, adviser to two presidents and betrayer of another, is dead at the age of one hundred.
A war criminal responsible for the US carpet-bombing of neutral Cambodia – personally selecting targets – that led to the Pol Pot genocide, the fall of democratically-elected left-wing president Allende and his replacement with mass-murder Augusto Pinochet, Indonesia’s genocide in East Timor, Pakistan’s slaughter in Bangladesh, and who played a key role in the passing of information from the Democrat US president Lyndon Johnson’s camp to Richard Nixon, causing a delay of years in the end of the Vietnam war – and a string of other war crimes and mass slaughters, Kissinger and his hate and fear of the left was responsible for the deaths of at least three million people, according to his biographer.
He will be lamented only by his family and by lovers of imperialism and racism – which means that the tributes will be pouring from both sides of the house in the US and UK, and no doubt from the Israeli regime and its supporters.
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Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry
Book at Lunchtime event. This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of “lyric” and “state” as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for their work and how poems come to speak to us about politics. Drawing on concepts from contemporary literary theory, this striking study combines textual analysis with historical research to shed light on the ways in which new modes of circulation help to shape poetry today.
The book's author, Professor Ben Bollig (Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford) explored the issues raised with:
Maria del Pilar Blanco (Professor in Spanish American Literature, University of Oxford)
Eduardo Posada-Carbo (Professor of History and Politics of Latin America, University of Oxford)
Leigh A. Payne (Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford)
The session was chaired by Bart van Es (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford).