The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday November 10th, 2023
Viciousness Regnant: Humanitarianism as a Weasel Word by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
It may be time to reconsider the use of such words as “humanitarian” and “humanitarianism”. There has been little of that sort evidenced in the Israel-Hamas War, marked by industrial-mechanised atrocities, enforced deprivation and starvation, orders to evacuate (read expulsion and banishment), preceded by massacres most haunting and visceral. Its constant evocation by various sides of the conflict have given it a diminishing quality, leaving international relationsstirring with cant.
Mind you, the term humanitarian had already been pipped and emptied of any solid meaning in the aftermath of the Cold War. Humanitarian intervention became a vicious, evangelised concept, enchanting such figures as the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair with its near biblical promise of saving souls and punishing the wickedin NATO’s Kosovo War. “I saw it as essentially a moral issue,” heclaimed in his memoirs. He would also go on to claim that war was “never civilised” but could be “necessary to uphold civilisation.”
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Transmigration #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“When we rediscover the way to shed
our bodies, to become exoskeleton,”
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Ghostin’ #76 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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