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Marco Rubio has discovered something useful in the Trump era, you do not have to shout if you can arrange the furniture. Donald Trump governs foreign policy like a man entering a casino through the kitchen door. The announcement comes first, the plan later, and the explanation is usually delivered in capital letters. J.D. Vance … More The quiet Rubio doctrine by John Reid
There is something deeply uncomfortable about commemorating the victims of terrorism. The ceremonies are solemn, the speeches are carefully written, the candles are lit, the flags lowered and then, almost inevitably, the world moves on. The International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism, observed on 21 August, is supposed to interrupt … More Remember the victims, not the…
Afghanistan has acquired the terrible quality of a place that can disappear from international attention without actually disappearing from suffering. Five years after the Taliban marched back into Kabul, the country is poorer, more repressive and now increasingly entangled in a dangerous confrontation with Pakistan. There is no shortage of catastrophe. What is missing is … More The country the…
They are like neighbours we are aware of,except we are NOT aware of andthey have absolutely nothing to do with Halloween. For more Ghostin’, HERE!For more Ovi Cartoons, HERE!
There is something ritualistic about the response to a mass shooting. First comes shock. Then condolences and then invariably the sentence, “Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims.” Thailand has apparently decided to experiment with another sentence: “Let’s change the law.” After a 14-year-old boy killed his grandparents before going to school and shooting … More The politics of “thoughts…
Johannesburg has discovered an unusually effective way of turning water into a political weapon, stop delivering it. For a city accustomed to the grand language of African urban ambition, the indignity is almost comically basic. The skyscrapers remain. The shopping centres glitter. The highways crawl with expensive cars. Yet behind the gates and apartment doors, … More The politics of the dry tap…
Three countries have signed what may eventually prove to be more consequential than the diplomatic language surrounding it suggests. Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have agreed that an armed attack on one of them will be regarded as an attack on all three, a formula deliberately reminiscent of NATO’s Article 5. The Mecca Joint Defence … More The Muslim NATO question by Mira Radulova
In a galaxy far, far away, intelligence demonstrated by screws and chips, boldly gone where no robot has gone before! For more Screws & Chips, HERE!For more Ovi Cartoons, HERE!
The Trump administration has gutted federal civil rights enforcement in the United States, leaving the people the laws were built to protect without adequate remedies, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 112-page report, “Remedies Abandoned: US Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Trump Administration,” documents the administration’s efforts to unravel the work of … More US:…
We speak about “the cloud” as though our data has escaped the physical world and floated into some weightless digital heaven. Photos, emails, bank records, films, medical files and the accumulated debris of modern life are said to be “in the cloud”. The phrase is wonderfully convenient and almost completely misleading. There is no cloud. … More The cloud has a floor by Jiro Lambert
World Humanitarian Day arrives each year with the uncomfortable timing of an alarm clock nobody wants to hear. On 19 August, the world pauses to honour those who carry food into war zones, rescue children from rubble, treat the wounded and remain beside communities after the television cameras have moved on. It is a noble … More Humanitarianism in the age of the billionaire by Shanna Shepard
Adam woke to the sound of a door creaking. It was faint at first, like the whisper of an old hinge fighting against the weight of silence. His eyes blinked open, adjusting to the dim light of his bedroom. Shadows stretched across the walls, long and twisted. The room felt strange. As if the air … More #eBook Dissociative identity disorder by Julia A. Girard
The United Nations General Assembly has designated 19 August as “World Humanitarian Day” to pay tribute to aid workers in humanitarian service in difficult and often dangerous conditions. 19 August was designated in memory of the 19 August 2003 bombing of the UN office building in Baghdad, Iraq in which Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN … More World Humanitarian Day: A Need for Common Actions by Rene…
Another cartoon with a mean and know-all of a bully cat, Puppi and her intellectual, pompous companion categorically-I-know-all, Caesar the squirrel! For more Puppi & Caesar, HERE!For more Ovi Cartoons, HERE!
