The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday July 4th, 2022 – USA Independence Day
Malaysia’s personality driven foreign policy – Pragmatic and reactionary, rather than grounded on a Malaysian view of the world by Murray Hunter
Malaysia’s foreign policy has always been more focused upon bilateral relationships out of necessity rather than the more grandiose multi-lateral groupings. Even the importance of ASEAN has waned to Malaysia over the last decade. This has particularly been the case where Malaysia had four separate administrations over as many years.
Consequently, Malaysia’s foreign policy to some degree has reflected the agendas of leaders like Najib Razak and Mahathir Mohamed who both had clear visions.In addition, Malaysian foreign policy sometimes skewed on the personal views of emissaries like Abdul Hadi Awang on particular issues related to the MENA and Central Asia.
Although Malaysia released a policy vision, Foreign Policy Framework of the New Malaysia: Change in Continuityin 2019, followed up with a defence white paper, a few months later, most Malaysian foreign policy has been pragmatic and reactive acting on bilateral issues with its neighbours Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
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HAPPY B-DAY USA #poem by David Sparenberg
“I love my children.
I love my grandchildren.
And have deep concern
for the youth of the Earth.
Who and what do you love?
What we value
defines who we are.
Who we are is
shaped by what we love.“
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Giuseppe Garibaldi 4 July 1807 -2 June 1882: Godfather of Transnational Democratic Politics by Rene Wadlow
Giuseppe Garibaldi born on the 4th of July 1807 in Nice, now France, often called the hero of two worlds because of his efforts for independence in Latin America and then Europe, is in many ways in inventor of transnational democratic politics. He was brought up in a religious Catholic family; his mother hoped that he would become a priest. However, the Church of Pope Leo XII had fallen asleep in its dreams of past glories. Garibaldi saw the need for change, and for a mystic motor to produce that change. Thus at 26, he joined the Young Italy movement of Giuseppe Mazzini. Young Italy was the public face of the Carbonari with its overlapping membership with that of Freemasonry, both outlawed throughout Italy, except in the Piedmont.
The factor uniting the Carbonari and Freemasonry was a militant opposition to the Roman Catholic domination of Italy . Both the Carbonari and Freemasonry shared the idea that politics should be based on the growth of individual development through stages of initiation. As Mazzini wrote in his Faith and the Future “ How many stars, unravelled concepts of each epoch, must be raised in the sky of intelligence that Man, complete embodiment of the earthly Word, may say to himself: I have faith in myself; my destiny is accomplished”
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Mika Toxica #29 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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