The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday December 4th, 2021
Arming Against #China: The US Global Posture Review by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Get the Marines ready. Store the supplies. Marshal the allies. The United States is getting ready for war (the preferable term in Washington is policing) in the Indo-Pacific region, and is hoping to do so with a range of expanded bases across client states, or what it prefers to call friends.
On November 29, the Pentagon announced that US President Joe Biden had accepted the recommendations made by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III in the Global Posture Review commissioned in February. The news might have been delivered by Austin himself, but this solemn duty fell to Mara Karlin, discharging her duties as deputy undersecretary of defense for policy. As the GPR remains classified, we are left with a sketchy performance that should make many across the Indo-Pacific seek cover and a bunker.
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“Salutary Effects” #poem #haiku by Saloni Kaul
“Hibernation long
Bolsters inner resources.
We breeze through new day!”
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The Israeli far-left by Joseph Gatt
I must admit it took me several years to fully understand the Israeli equivalent of the far-left (or Israeli Communists if you want to call them that).
The Israeli far-left has some distinguished scholars (Shlomo Sand, Gilad Atzmon) along with quite a few prominent political figures, and they are in the government at the time of the writing of this article (November 14, 2021).
So what does the Israeli far-left say?
-First, they say that only Israelis should discuss Israeli politics. Diaspora Jews are not Israeli, should never automatically become Israeli, and diaspora Jews should not make public or official statements on Israeli politics.
-Second, the far-left says arrangements should be made for Israeli Arabs and other minorities (Druze, Armenians, Circassians, Samaritans) to have full equality, so Jews in Israel should receive no preferential treatment (Kosher kitchens in schools and public buildings should be banned, and if you want to eat Kosher food, you should pay for it out of your own pocket).
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A fistful of cactus 21#12 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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