The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday March 30th, 2022 – World Bipolar Day
World Bipolar Day is celebrated each year on March 30th, the birthday of Vincent Van Gogh, who was posthumously diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. The vision of World Bipolar Day (WBD) is to bring world awareness to bipolar disorders and to eliminate social stigma. Through international collaboration, the goal of World Bipolar Day is to bring the world population information about bipolar disorders that will educate and improve sensitivity towards the illness.
Troubled Ideas: A Nuremberg Tribunal for #Putin by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
In a good number of Western states, the ruling classes, former and current, have lost their heads. Bugbear and boogieman Vladimir Putin’s efforts in Ukraine have lent themselves to some rather extreme suggestions, ranging from assassination to potential war crimes trials. This is not to say that the Russian leader has nothing to account for. As ever, it all depends on who is making the accusation, and who is seeking retribution.
Trying leaders for war crimes does not lack merit, even if law remains, at best, a blunt instrument all too readily concealing a vengeful motive. Butchers should never escape under the comfortable veil of state responsibility, claiming sovereignty as an all-dispensing reason to commit atrocities. But any war crimes procedures are riddled with claims of bias, partisanship and self-interest.
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Slavic Jesus #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“In older European days,
They sat on the edge of oblivion
Searching for their yesterdays
And killing their tomorrows.
They were desolate,
Empty and cold
And war ravaged
Them all,
And now we
Are doomed to
Repeat their
History.”
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Jean Giono and the Energies of the Earth by Rene Wadlow
Jean Giono (1895 – 1970) whose birth anniversary we mark on 30 March was one of the most original French advocates of non-violence. Giono, a pantheist philosopher, novelist of rural life, and in his later days, a movie-maker, had a fame in the wider public even among those who opposed his nonviolence. André Malraux, who was both a great novelist and a man who participated in war, wrote that the three best writers of his generation were Henri de Monterlant, Jean Giono, and George Bernanos.
Jean Giono was born and died in Manosque — a town in the mountains above Aix-en-Provence which, ironically, has now become an area of vacation homes for the well off who can no longer find space on the Cote d’Azur. In Giono’s time, it was an area of small farmers and shepherds who were the protagonists of Giono’s novels.
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Work-wife #cartoon by Patrick McWade
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