The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday December 31st, 2022
Europe: Una Hysteria Importante – (Part one) 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…
And, just when we thought – it can’t get worse, just when we thought that the history judgement can be escaped and that Europe can avoid inevitable – acceptance that there is no more moral triumph of the west (ever since dizzy 2020), the devastating earthquake reduced foundations of the western civilisational superiority to a rubble:arrests of the top officials of the most democ-ratic EU institution of all – the Euro Parliament, and extensive raids that are still ongoing.[1]The very fundaments of Europe are shaking.
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New Year’s Eve #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“I’m relaxing
In my old boyhood
Bedroom waiting for
New Year’s Eve,
The bottle of Jim
Beam is ready,
And my brother
Is waiting.”
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Ghostin’ #54 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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