The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday April 25th, 2022 – Anzac Day
Every country has a day that commemorates those who fight and die to protect their freedom, their traditions, and their homes. For Australia and New Zealand, there’s Anzac Day, a moment of remembrance for all those who have served their country with distinction, especially those who never made it home.
UN Charter needs amendment for a participative representation by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
The Ukraine War is in its second month with no signs of stopping anytime soon. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call “You need to act immediately” during a live-streamed address on April 6 to the UN Security Council members has not stopped the war. And in all fairness, as long as a veto wielding power is the elephant in the room that is the aggressor, nothing good will come out of the UN unless it is reformed.
The currently flawed state even allows a non-veto-wielding client state to get away unscathed with its horrible records of war crimes as long as it has a patron or sponsor who can use its veto power to protect it. Not surprisingly, in May 2021, the USA blocked any resolution to be passed in the UNSC against the apartheid state of Israel for its war crimes in the Gaza. (Despite its genocidal crimes against the native Palestinians, the Biden Administration continues to grant nearly four billion dollars annually to the apartheid state.)
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“A dream” #poem & #painting by Amir Khatib
“As if I count stars on a clothesline, I fold one in my basket and leave another wet with clouds.
A fresh blue devouring the scene.
Whenever I go to hunt a sky … the fortune tellers chase me with cups.
A torrent of maze.”
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Anzac Day: The Slaughter of the Unthinking by the Unaccountable by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Secular religions are hard to battle in terms of their misplaced assumptions. In some ways, they are even harder to fight than those based on mythical gods and superstitious foundations, many drawn from desert religions and sandy practice. ANZAC, the name of the Australian New Zealand Army Corps, hardly sounds promising as the basis of a religion. But since the needless, bungled operation in the Dardanelles that led to the slaughter of Australian and New Zealand Troops in April 1915, along with Turkish, British and French soldiers, the acronym has become scented, meaningful and powerful.
At first, it all seems rather daft. These troops, for the most part ignorant of geography and certainly of the myriad nature of European power relations, found themselves invading the Ottoman Empire in a chess move thought up by Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty. If the Ottoman Empire could be defeated, Imperial Germany would lose a key ally and be exposed on its flank. The mission failed in spectacular fashion and allowed Kemal Atatürk, future leader of secular Turkey, to distinguish himself.
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Always something; the family edition #032 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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