The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday December 2nd, 2021 – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
The #Taiwan Foreign Policy Fetish by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Australian foreign policy towards Taiwan, as things stand, is a distant fantasy in floating mist. There is little to connect them, but Australia’s political classes have a habit of fabricating relations with those it cares little for, nor understands, all in the name of forced obedience. For decades, a puppy loyal Australia has committed forces without condition or qualification, refusing to understand the circumstances of their deployment, or the people who they will either kill or die for. The result is an astonishing global deployment of personnel with admirable ignorance to theatres most of its citizens would fail to name.
The recent Taiwan fetish risks continuing this trend. Australia’s Defence Minister, Peter Dutton, is a figure who has fallen head over heels with the latest, potential casus belli. Known by the late and very mischievous Bob Ellis as the simian sadist, Dutton is adamant that Australia will find itself at war over a bit of real estate whose history he has no knowledge of. “It would be inconceivable that we wouldn’t support the US in an action if the US chose to take that action,” Dutton recently told The Australian. “And again, I think we should be very frank and honest about that, look at all the facts and circumstances without pre-committing, and maybe there are circumstances where we wouldn’t take up that option, (but) I can’t conceive of those circumstances.”
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At The End Of The Street #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“Next to my surprise did I realize,
life is best served in compromise,”
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Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time #BookReview by Joseph Gatt
This book is important because,
It’s a
first person narrative account of late 19th century Paris. Those were
times, like in 2021, of social, political and technological revolution.
Proust discovers this thing called “coffee” that no one really knows how to drink without getting the jitters. Many people become sick for drinking too much of it.
Travel by car and airplanes is new and luxurious. People are not sure how to go about travelling by car or plane.
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Always something; the family edition 21#21 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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For more Ovi Cartoons, HERE!
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