The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday November 8th, 2021
Hypersonic Panic and Competitive Terror by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
During his eventful time in office, US President Donald Trump took much delight in reflecting about the lethal toys of his country’s military, actual or hypothetical. These included a hypersonic capability which, his military advisors had warned, was being mastered by adversaries. Such devices, comprising hypersonic cruise missiles and hypersonic boost-glide vehicles, have been touted as opening a new arms race, given their ability not merely to travel at five times the speed of sound – as a general rule – but also show deft manoeuvrability to evade defences.
Undeterred by any rival capability, Trump claimed in May 2020 that the US military had come up with a “super duper” weapon that could travel at 17 times the speed of sound. “We are building, right now, incredible military equipment at a level that nobody has ever seen before.” Ever adolescent in poking fun at his rivals, Trump also claimed that the missile dwarfed Russian and Chinese equivalents. Russia, he claimed, had one travelling at five times the speed of sound; China was working on a device that could move at the same speed, if not at six times. Pentagon officials were not exactly forthcoming about the details, leaving the fantasists to speculate.
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Wasted my whole life (V 3) #poem #Art #Installation by Amir Khatib
“I hate the clock and can’t stand hearing its ticking.
I disable it
Or eviscerate her…
With this I lost my life!
I searched for it between my fingers,
Under my nails soot of ink,
in bookshelves,
prevalent words and verbs,
In the chaos of lines and colors,
In my pockets full of keys,”
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Gravitas, Grudges, Grit #ShortStory #Fiction By Ian C Smith
“Alone in the dark hours of morning I computer-track my son’s progress in the Kona Ironman, a thin blue line edging across a screen. Checking emails, I learn my nephew will drive me later to his boyhood rural hospital. His aged mother, my only sister, is gravely ill. A long-legged champion schoolgirl hurdler once, she doesn’t know her Ironman nephew, two generations younger than her in years, doesn’t know much anymore, her ghosts of memory adrift.”
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A fistful of cactus 21#10 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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