The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday November 5th, 2022 – World Tsunami Awareness Day
In December 2015, the UN General Assembly designated 5 November as World Tsunami Awareness Day, calling on countries, international bodies and civil society to raise tsunami awareness and share innovative approaches to risk reduction.
History repeats itself by Thanos Kalamidas
Is not lost in a historic past and I really hope many remember the day Jean-Marie Le Pen threaten to take over the French republic and all French people from the left to the conservative right united under right-wing Jacques Chirac’s banners to defeat the racist, holocaust denier, prejudice homophobe leader of the French National Front.
It was a battle between good and evil and made headlines all around the world, from Australia to Chile and from South Africa to arctic Finland. Analysis after analysis for the rise of the far-right and the dangers coming with often references to Hitler and his rise into power. It was like the end of the world and Chirac’s victory was celebrated all around the world as the end of the WWII, Christmas and Easter together.
Last month, Giorgia Meloni was elected Italy’s Prime Minister. An out of the closet xenophobe and in closet racist, definitely anti-Semitic and admirer of the Italian fascist dictator and Hitler’s comrade, Benito Mussolini. And well, she made it to a lot of headlines in a lot of countries but then, after election day every single leader all around the world rushed to congratulate her hoping in a …good cooperation. A week later, she made minister in her administration somebody known for his Nazi sympathies. The news barely reached first page.
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To Burn #poem by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
“Beset by demons, driven wild, dreams disconsolate.
He sacrificed himself to his own broken dream.
By early morning birdsong he had read the note.
She had indeed gone as she had threaten.
He squatted on his haunches and wept.”
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Eugene Victor Debs: An Early U.S. Socialist Voice by Rene Wadlow
With the increasingly high profile of Senator Bernie Sanders in U.S. politics, the term “Democratic Socialist” has become increasingly used. Thus it is useful to look at the first person on the U.S. political scene to represent the term.
Eugene Victor Debs was born in a family which had migrated to the U.S. Mid-West from Alsace. His father came from a Protestant family devoted to social reform. Thus, he was given his name from those of two writers who were well known for their social reform writings: Eugène Sue and Victor Hugo. From the same Alsace family came his cousin Albert Schweitzer of “reverence for life” fame.
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #024 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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