Dear listers and listeners,
An intersting piece [of writing] regurgitated by our godfathers at AL
Daily describes the Cold War climate and its journalistic affiliates
(CIA funded social commentary in a variety of tongues) thusly:
"Cuadernos, the CCF’s first Spanish-language effort, is a case in point:
it was distributed in Spain and Latin America from 1953 until 1965.
Edited throughout most of its lifespan by a Spaniard living in exile, it
was frequently tone deaf and reactionary. It defended not only military
coups in Latin America but even the Spanish conquest; and its argument
that Latin America was a part of the West failed to attract much of an
audience among left-leaning intellectuals. The Mexican satirist Jorge
Ibargüengoitia, in one of his short stories, describes Cuadernos as
having 'a decidedly anti-Communist air; but on studying it carefully, I
began to suspect that it was just the opposite; that is, an apparently
anti-Communist magazine, made by the Communists, to discredit the
anti-Communists'.”
The whole review at
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-spy-who-funded-me-revisiting-the-congress-for-cultural-freedom/
Reminds [one] of the Memphistic classic "We can't go on together // with
Suspicious Minds."
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Best regards,
-tor
http://torgeirfjeld.wordpress.com/
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"It makes no difference to me at what point I begin, for I shall always
come back again to this. It is necessary both to say and to think that
being is; for it is possible that being is, and it is impossible that
not-being is; this is what I bid thee ponder." -- The Goddess of
Parmenides
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