The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday March 13th, 2022
#Russia’s Invasion of #Ukraine: Outing the Iraq War White Washers by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
The guilty can be devious in concealing their crimes, and their role in them. The greater the crime, the more devious the strategy of deception. The breaking of international law, and the breaching of convention, is a field replete with such figures.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has presented a particularly odious grouping, a good number of them neoconservatives, a chance to hand wash and dry before the idol of international law. Law breakers become defenders of oracular force, arguing for the territorial integrity of States and the sanctity of borders, and the importance of the UN Charter.
Reference can be made to Hitler’s invasions during the Second World War with a revoltingly casual disposition, a comparison that seeks to eclipse the role played by other gangster powers indifferent to the rule and letter of international comity.
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The painted birds #poem by Abigail George
“I’m helpless. She knows this and tells me
to forget this place of weeping and change.
She’s an afternoon shadow. A crack in the
wall. A crack in the system. She doesn’t
believe in the |Holy Spirit. Once she was
a daughter. Now she is a lover. She’s the
opposite of me. She’s beautiful and caring”
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Rene Dumont (13 March 1904 – 18 June 2001): World Citizen With Focus on the Small-Scale Farmer by Rene Wadlow
Awareness building is often a long process. Thus recognition of the ideas of René Dumont has come nearly two decades after his death with the vote on 17 December 2018 by the United Nations General Assembly of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People working in rural areas. René Dumont highlighted the importance of small-scale peasant farmers in the world’s food production. Despite massive displacement of the peasantry toward cities, more than 70 percent of the world’s food is produced by small family-owned farms.
René Dumont was an active world citizen and always stressed world citizenship in his justification for his studies of agriculture worldwide. Although he was 30 years older than I and much better known through his scientific monographs on African agriculture and then his popular books on African rural development when we met, there was always a feeling of togetherness in a battle for a better life for African farmers.
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Tang & Ram #030 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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