The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday July 12th, 2022 – Malala Day
On 12 July 2013, Yousafzai’s 16th birthday, she spoke at the UN to call for worldwide access to education. The UN dubbed the event “Malala Day“. Yousafzai wore one of Benazir Bhutto’s shawls to the UN. It was her first public speech since the attack, leading the first ever Youth Takeover of the UN, with an audience of over 500 young education advocates from around the world.
AUKUS Submarines: Beasts of Nuclear Proliferation by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
When faced with the option of acquiring nuclear technology, states have rarely refused. Since the splitting of the atom and the deployment of atomic weapons in war, the acquisition of a nuclear capacity has been a dream. Those who did acquire it, in turn, tried to restrict others from joining what has become, over the years, an exclusive club guarded by self-justified psychosis.
Members of the nuclear club engage in an elaborate ceremonial inclaiming that their nuclear weapons inventory will eventually be emptied. Non-nuclear weapons states allied to such powers go along with appearances, taking comfort that nuclear weapons states will offer them an umbrella of security.
This insane hypocrisy underlines such arrangements as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Central to the document is the discouragement of non-nuclear weapons states from weaponizing nuclear technology as long as members of the nuclear club pursue “good-faith” disarmament negotiations. While it is true to say that the NPT probably prevented a speedier, less infectious spread of the nuclear virus, it remains a constipated regime of imperfections that has merely delayed proliferation.
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Set in stone #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“Never can be told
a story set in stone,
for what the message was
may not be at all.”
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Buckminster Fuller: A World View on Doing More With Less by Rene Wadlow
Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr (1895 – 1983) Bucky to his friends, whose birth anniversary we mark on 12 July was born into one of New England’s elite but freethinking families. His great-great grandfather, the Reverend Timothy Fuller was a delegate from Massachusettes to the Convention which drew up the US Constitution. He was so outraged at the Convention’s acceptance of slavery that he opposed ratification. His grand aunt, Margaret Fuller, was the editor of the transcendentalist journal The Dial, a close colleague of R.W. Emerson and Thoreau.
As all the male members of his family, he began university at Harvard but was expelled twice, being more interested in women than in diplomas. He never received a university degree but was self-taught in design, mathematics and architecture. He brought all his ideas together in what he called “The Law of Progressive Order.”
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Worming #40 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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