The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday September 17th, 2022- World Patient Safety Day
World Patient Safety Day calls for global solidarity and concerted action by all countries and international partners to improve patient safety. The Day brings together patients, families, caregivers, communities, health workers, health care leaders and policy-makers to show their commitment to patient safety.
Where were we when populism won? by Thanos Kalamidas
The results of the Swedish elections and the reach of the far-right populist party – the Swedish Democrats – the second place with nearly 21% establishes a painful reality, far-right populism with all its side-effects (xenophobia, homophobia, islamophobia, liberalphobia, ducationphobia and all the other phobias) is part of the international mainstream social-economic life even in the champion of democracy Scandinavia! And if we had doubts until now believing the “democracy prevails” we should have listen better when Donald Trump became president of USA.
I feel that it all started sometime in early 1970s and in the peak of the cold-war when politicians, interest and whole nations realize that the disputed populism and all it carried with it – misinformation, manipulation, lies – worked. It was the era when populism was still connected with Nazism. In the name of the greatest good and the all mighty nuclear enemy, we felt that a bit of lie and some half-true will not harm. After all what do you want? People start asking free health coverage or free education. This is not how the democratic western good… capitalism works, this is evil Stalinism.
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Another Age #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“In the early dawn
They flew into the sun
Steel squadrons
Filled with a terrible
Resolve”
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Nikolai Kondratiev: The Long Economic Cycles by Rene Wadlow
17 September marks the execution of Nikolai Kondratiev (also written as Kondratieff) in 1938 as part of Stalin’s “Great Purge” of those who disagreed with him. Konratiev held that the 1929 “Great Depression” was a normal part of a long 50 to 60 year cycle and that there would be a return to capitalist investment linked to new technologies and the related need for capital. Stalin believed that the depression was a sign of the permanent collapse of the capitalist system which would be replaced by Communism. Academic debate was not the style of Stalin. Kondratiev who was already in prison for eight years was shot by a firing squad.
Kondratiev came from a peasant family. Nevertheless, he was able to enter St. Petersburg University to study economics where he specialized in agricultural production and agricultural export issues.
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #020 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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