The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday February 1st, 2023
Doltish Ways: Biden’s Documents Problem by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Through the course of his political life, the current US president has often been injudicious. He has stumbled, bungled and miscalculated. His electoral victory was fortuitous, aided by a number of factors, not least the conduct of his opponent and the murderous gift of a global pandemic. Along with his fellow Democrats, he has made the issue of Donald Trump a matter of pathology rather than politics.
It is precisely that pathological approach that has come back to haunt his administration. While Trump continues to be characterised as the proto-authoritarian in waiting, squirreling off classified documents that should have been deposited in the national archives, Biden claimed to be above such behaviour.
His own Attorney General, Merrick Garland, has now appointed two prosecutors as special counsels responsible for investigating how Biden and Trump handled classified documents, with the latter also facing an investigation on his role in the January 6 storming of the Capitol. Former federal prosecutor in Maryland Robert K. Hur has been tasked with dealing with Biden and any relevant staff in their alleged mishandling of classified material. Veteran Department of Justice investigator Jack Smith is conducting two criminal investigations into the conduct of Trump.
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Langston Hughes (1 Feb 1902 – 22 May 1967) A People’s Poet by Rene Wadlow
Langston Hughes, whose birth anniversary we note on 1 February, was an African-American poet, through ‘Negro’ was the term at the time, and many of Hughes’ poems have ‘Negro’ in the title as his “A Negro speaks of rivers”. He was an important figure of what is called “The Harlem Renaissance” – a strong cultural current in New York City from the mid 1920s to the mid 1940s. (1)
He was largely raised by his grandmother, his father having left to live in Mexico and his mother lived elsewhere in order to work. Although Hughes, as many U.S. African -Americans had white ancestors, his grandmother stress having pride in being black. Later in his life, Hughes was called a “Negro Nationalist”.
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Manish’s Zodiac Signs Predictions for February 2023 #horoscope by Manish Kumar Arora
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #030 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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