The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday July 11th, 2023
Ukraine and the Cluster Bombs Debate by Rene Wadlow
Currently, there is at the highest foreign policy-making level in the U.S.A. a debate concerning the U.S. sending cluster bombs to Ukraine to support the on-going counter offensive. The Ukraine military forces have used most of the cluster bombs they had. It would take a good bit of time to manufacture new cluster weapons. Thus the request for cluster munitions from the U.S.A. However cluster weapons have been outlawed by a Cluster Weapons Convention signed by many states.
In a remarkable combination of civil society pressure and leadership from a small number of progressive states, a strong ban on the use, manufacture and stocking of cluster bombs was agreed by 111 countries in Dublin, Ireland on 30 May 2008. However, bright sunshine casts a dark shadow. In this case, the dark shadow is the fact that the major makers and users of cluster munitions were deliberately absent from the agreement: Brazil, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, and the U.S.A.
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Lyrical Summer Day #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“The coconut oil on your skin,
The aroma of the salty sea,
The roar of the waves crashing
On the shore and the sky
Melting under the summer sun.”
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Ma-Siri & Alexa #63 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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