The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday November 29th, 2021
Off to the Solomon Islands: Australia’s Civilizers Get Busy by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
A small riot. Unrest. Risk of collapse. All given a ballooning effect and inflated for policy makers across the ocean. Before much time elapses, Australian security forces are skirting off to restore order in their vast watery neighbourhood. It is a reminder that such relations in the Pacific region are a mixture of intervention, forcible charitable guidance and, at times, plain scolding.
In the Solomon Islands, Australian interventionism was originally cloaked in shining dress, justified as humanitarian and utterly noble. By the time some 2,000 troops, police officers and support personnel, mostly Australian, were deployed in 2003, the country had already mounted regional interventions in Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (1997) and East Timor, the latter as part of a UN-mandated mission.
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Oh my… #poem & #ArtInstallation by Amir Khatib
“The country mail did not arrive!
I try to remember, when was the last time,
I do not remember; But he did not arrive long ago.”
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Tang & Ram 21#22 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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