The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday January 16th, 2023
Spy vs. Spy Square Off in Malaysia by Murray Hunter
Strange as it may seem, Malaysia, a modest, rather dull middle-income country near the tail end of Southeast Asia, is a hotspot for international intrigue and foreign covert activity. Although new anti-espionage laws are due to be presented to the Dewan Rakyat, Malaysia’s parliament, it’s difficult to see how legislation would stem any covert activities on Malaysian soil, given the country’s sizeable diasporas many of them dissidents from countries like Turkey and other more deeply Islamic societies.
The plotters of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York held early meetings in Kuala Lumpur before the horrific events of September 2001 that kicked off the misguided global war on terror. In 2017, Kim Jong-Nam, the brother of North Korean dictator Kim ong-un, was assassinated by outsourced assailants, using a nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). Fadi Muhammad al-Batsch, a Palestinian engineer, academic and a member of Hamas, the radical Islamist terror group seeking to liberate Palestine from Israeli rule was assassinated gangland style outside a mosque in 2018 for unknown reasons.
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The task of poets #poem & #artinstallation by Amir Khatib
“It is no longer the task of poets to write poetry, for so much has been written about it that the seas were overflowing with disgusting plastic words, and the fish died of thirst… Thousands of whales commit suicide in agony because of hearing bad poetry, and millions of birds migrate to escape it.”
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Always something; the family edition #53 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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