The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday December 12th, 2021
Backing Horses: Australia’s Solomon Islands Intervention by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
The history of humanitarian or policing missions is a history of taking sides, disruptive partiality and the forfeiture of the very object powers claim when intervening in another country. Things become particularly absurd when the individual or government pleading for such help to an outside force is struggling to survive yet making grand statements about democracy and the like.
Take Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare of the Solomon Islands, who has made full use of the security agreement with Australia, signed in 2017 to make future meddling in his country a smooth affair. That understanding had been reached after fourteen years, when Australian-led forces found themselves involved in the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI). “We know that a failed state in our region, on our doorstep,” Prime Minister John Howard stated in July 2003 with forced justification, “will jeopardise our own security.”
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The tall man, the thin man, the dark man, the sad man #poem by Abigail George
“The sea’s green eyes watch me with care.
I have to get my soul out of here, the river is here
now swallowing me whole, meta lost in translation.”
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Tang & Ram 21#23 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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