We are worried about the situation with Venezuela and the potential for a military operation on that country. Join us for an insightful Global South-to South conversation with Mustafa Fetouri, an award-winning Libyan journalist, columnist, author, and translator, with contributions to major outlets like Middle East Monitor, Al-Monitor, and Washington Report, and a focus on North Africa and the Sahel region.

Follow Mustafa Fetouri's excellent coverage and analysis: @MFetouri on X

Middle East Monitor: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/authors/dr-mustafa-fetouri/

The New Arab: https://www.newarab.com/author/74695/mustafa-fetouri

Al Monitor: https://www.al-monitor.com/authors/mustafa-fetouri.html

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs: https://www.wrmea.org/other/from-skulls-to-sovereignty-africa-demands-colonial-justice.html

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¡Nos vuelve a visitar el Ing. Einstein Millán Arcia (@EinsteinMillan en X), amigo del pod! Einstein es uno de los analistas más acertados y perspicaces en cuanto a todas las complejidades de la industria petrolera y las dinámicas geopolíticas a nivel internacional.

Asesor de petróleo y gas upstream, egresado de la Universidad de Oklahoma (maestría y estudios de doctorado) y la Universidad de Oriente (ingeniería petrolera), hoy nos acompaña para determinar si la industria petrolera venezolana está en declive o no.

Algunas divagancias incluyen: ¿qué va a pasar con Venezuela y EE.UU.? El mito de la meritocracia, el maltrato hacia los migrantes venezolanos, y ¿cómo es eso del pago "en especie" que Cuba hace por el petróleo venezolano?

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Cuando éramos carajitos siempre nos metieron un pocotón de cuentos, mitos y creencias supersticiosas. En este episodio hablamos de varias de esas patrañas que nos creímos. Mariposas tóxicas, espejos y cualquier tipo de leyendas todas locas que de pana ni tenían sentido.

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Vane and Jorge sit with the insightful Dr. Lynn Comella, Associate Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of Nevada-Las Vegas (how appropriate!), and author of "Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure" to get real about porn.

This episode came about after we read Dr. Comella's response to renowned anti-porn feminist, Dr. Gail Dines, and Vane expressed being a "porn skeptic" after seeing the current state of porn. Discussion includes: can porn be feminist? Is porn affecting and even hurting sexual interactions today, or is it an empowering form of media?

The article that sparked this episode:

⁠https://lasvegassun.com/news/2011/feb/02/feminists-gone-wild-response-porn-critic-gail-dine/⁠

More about Dr. Comella:

⁠https://www.unlv.edu/news/expert/lynn-comella⁠

⁠https://www.dukeupress.edu/vibrator-nation⁠

ENGLISH starts after our intro! 

Also finally on YouTube (https://youtu.be/MoxpsgpenAk) -  We are starting CON FUERZA in our 3rd season of Contraelite!

We interviewed Lithuanian-American author Silvia Foti, who wrote "The Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather was a War Criminal"  and buckle up, because it's a super interesting ride into how Silvia found out the very painful history of her grandfather, Jonas Noreika, or "General Storm" who was hailed as a Lithuanian war hero, while in reality, he had been an anti-Soviet partisan and Nazi collaborator. 

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Related reading and more information about our guest:

New York Times article "No more lies. My grandfather was a Nazi" by Silvia Foti: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/opinion/jonas-noreika-lithuania-nazi-collaborator.html

NYT article en español: https://www.nytimes.com/es/2021/01/31/espanol/opinion/abuelo-nazi.html

Silvia Foti on HardTalk BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1n10

Silvia's article: https://www.silviafoti.com/who-is-jonas-noreika/ 

Article on the Chicago Tribune: https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-lithuania-nazi-jonas-noreika-20210407-k72dbr373fforgk6kuq5ubzkru-story.html

My grandfather, a national hero in Lithuania — and a war criminal - Article on the Harvard Gazette: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/10/how-author-silvia-foti-discovered-her-grandfathers-nazi-past/

Silvia's book: https://www.amazon.com/Nazis-Granddaughter-Discovered-Grandfather-Criminal/dp/1684511089

Articles about controversial monument in Budapest, Hungary: 

-EURACTIV article https://www.euractiv.com/section/central-europe/news/controversial-monument-divides-hungarians-angers-jewish-community/

-Reuters article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-holocaust-german-memorial/hungary-pm-defends-contested-monument-to-nazi-victims-idUSBREA0L1H820140122

Finalmente & finally, we are kicking off Season 3 of Contraelite! Some content is a little outdated, please listen to our opening message. 

As always, so fortunate to have excellent and insightful guests, this time is no exception. We dive deep into the interesting dynamics of Austrian, and to an extent overall European, politics with Natascha Strobl, an Austrian political scientist, expert on right-wing extremism and the New Right. She is the author of the newly released book, Radicalised Conservatism / Radikalisierter Konservatismus, a study into the "hard right agenda [being] pushed through by stoking a constant mood of anxiety towards a vague 'other'" (Irish Times). 

The lead-up to the eventual exit of Sebastian Kurz, labor shortages & workers issues, women's issues and feminism, the Peruvian elections in 2021, as well as a bit of friendly banter on the 2021 Euro Cup, this episode covers it all and then some. 

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Related reading and more information about our guest:

On Twitter, Natascha is at @Natascha_Strobl

IPS Journal contributor - https://www.ips-journal.eu/about/writers-and-contributors/writer/natascha-strobl/

Natascha Strobl on Second Wiki (bio and a list of many of her articles) https://second.wiki/wiki/natascha_strobl 

Natascha's new book: https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/natascha-strobl-radicalised-conservatism-fr-9783518127827 

Natascha's website (in German): https://www.natsanalysen.at/

"Sebastian Kurz suffers fall from grace in Austria amid graft inquiry" - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/sebastian-kurz-suffers-fall-from-grace-in-austria-amid-graft-inquiry-1.4701753

The grim statistic we mention: "Over 40% of Czechs Feel that Rape Can Be Justified" https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/over-40-percent-czechs-feel-rape-can-be-justified

"Many Europeans consider rape acceptable" https://www.statista.com/chart/6999/many-europeans-consider-rape-acceptable/4