The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday December 27th, 2021 – International Day of Epidemic Preparedness
Voices of Concern: Aussies for Assange’s Return by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
With Julian Assange now fighting the next stage of efforts to extradite him to the United States to face 18 charges, 17 of which are based on the brutal, archaic Espionage Act, some Australian politicians have found their voice. It might be said that a few have even found their conscience.
Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce was sufficiently exercised by the High Court judgment overturning the lower court ruling against extradition to demand an end to the matter. In his opinion piece for the Nine newspaper group on December 14, he argued that rights were “not created in some legal sonic boom at one undefined point of our existence nor switched off like the power to a fridge because of a fear or a confusion as to the worth of their contents.”
The deputy PM proved mature enough to admit that “whether you like him or despite him”, the importance of the case transcended his situation. “So we must hope for the British courts to do so, and we will judge its society accordingly.” (They have not and, accordingly, should be judged.)
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“Pipe Dreams” #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“Light a pipe
dream a life
A pipe dreams
So it seems…”
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Ephemera 21#33 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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