The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thurday January 19th, 2023
Europe- Una Hysteria Importante – Part II by Dr. Anis H. Bajrektarevic
Economic downturn; recession of plans and initiatives;systematically ignored calls for afiscal and monetary justice for all; €-crisis; Brexit and irredentism in the UK, Spain, Belgium, France, Denmark and Italy; lasting instability in the Euro-Med theatre (debt crisis of the Europe’s south – countries scrutinized and ridiculed under the nickname PIGS, coupled with the failed states all over the MENA);terrorism; historic low with Moscowculminating in the unprecedented opened armed conflict of West with Russia on the territory of yet another Slavic useful idiot, ill-fated Ukraine, all this combined with a confrontational but in fact frightened and disoriented Washington administration; influx of predominantly Muslim refugees from Levantin numbers and configurationsunprecedented since the WWII exoduses (with an institutionalized racism in the Western migration policy while giving to fleeing Ukrainians diametrically different treatment); consequential growth of far-right parties who– by peddling reductive messages and comparisons – are exploiting fearsof otherness, that are nowamplified with already urging healthlabour and social justice concerns; generational unemployment and socio-culturalanxieties, in ricochet of sanctions; long-ago ‘prophesised’ than doctored health, post-C-19 and energy ‘crises’, oil anti-diplomacy; painful de-dollarization as well as the Sino-US trade wars, while rifting in dilemma to either letting Bolivarismor supporting Monroeism…
Strikingly, there is a very little publicdebate enhanced in Europe about it. What is even more worrying is the fact that any self-assessing questioning of Europe’s involvement and past policies in the Middle East, and Europe’s East is simply off-agenda. Immaculacy of Brussels and infallibilityof Atlantic-Central Europe-led EU is unquestionable. Corresponding with realities or complying witha dogma?
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Query #poem by Jan Sand
“It sets on fire what might inspire
The necessities that life might require.
Clean water, air, fresh green grass, and trees,
An atmosphere to neither roast nor freeze.
These are essentials on demand to please.
Are these simplicities beyond our means?”
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2nd opinion, quarantined! #23/02 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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