The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday July 28th, 2022
Korean Peace Treaty Awaits: NGO Efforts Needed by Rene Wadlow
27 July marked the anniversary of the 1953 Armistice ending the fighting in Korea. A peace treaty was to follow, but such a formal peace agreement has never been signed. Since 1953, there have been ups and downs of the degree of tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Currently, tensions are toward the high end of the scale.
On 14 March 2013, the Association of World Citizens had sent a message to the then United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging a U.N.-sponsored Korean Peace Settlement Conference now that all the States which had participated in the 1950-1953 Korean War were members of the United Nations. The 60th anniversary of the 1953 Armistice would be an appropriate occasion.
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We Rise #poem by Jan Sand
“We rise like rockets in the night.
Some of us explode in fiery glory
And some of us reach secret height
To see the wonder of the Sun.”
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Chaff Candidates: The Race for the UK Tory Leadership by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
As UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson set the scene in spectacular fashion. All who sought to confine him to history, perished. He was the only one who seemed to survive, and reject, one diabolical scandal after the next – till now.
No leader with such a destructive sense of presence could do anything but impair those who followed him. But that impairment lingers in the contenders who areseeking to replace him, and it shows.
In a system that is admirably daft, the governing party, namely the Conservatives, have given themselves a remarkable span of time to pick Johnson’s successor. A number of candidates initially put their name forth, a chaff-wheat separation exercise that eventually led to the selection of chaff.
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #017 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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