The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday November 5th, 2021
The Great Australian Defence Strategy Delusion by Murray Hunter
The government should be concerned about the protection of Australia rather than playing the role as a middle power.
Australia has been under siege from China, feeling alone and isolated over the last eighteen months. China has lambasted Australia through its unofficial mouthpiece the Global Times, ministerial contacts have been suspended by China with Australian ministers, and Australian exports to China have been embargoed, ironically benefitted the United States.
Over the last few years, revelations about Chinese interference and manipulation of Australian society and politics have been given massive media attention by the press. China also began a caustic style of what has become known as ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy. This was backed up with trade sanctions against Australian goods. China, which kept the Australian economy buoyant with the minerals boom during the millennium period, suddenly turned into a perceived adversary, where Australia felt it had to act.
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“Sri Yantra” #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“Just as water will flow through
a well-worn riverbed, even beyond and after death,
I go to that place of memory between our legs, holding”
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Eugene Victor Debs: An Early U.S. Socialist Voice by Rene Wadlow
With the increasingly high profile of Senator Bernie Sanders in U.S. politics, the term “Democratic Socialist” has become increasingly used. Thus it is useful to look at the first person on the U.S. political scene to represent the term.
Eugene Victor Debs was born in a family which had migrated to the U.S. Mid-West from Alsace. His father came from a Protestant family devoted to social reform. Thus, he was given his name from those of two writers who were well known for their social reform writings: Eugène Sue and Victor Hugo. From the same Alsace family came his cousin Albert Schweitzer of “reverence for life” fame.
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AntySaurus Prick 21#21 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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