Residency, reality and the courage to admit Europe needs people by Nadine Moreau There is something almost theatrical about Europe’s current demographic anxiety, governments lament shrinking workforces, economists warn of unsustainable pension systems and hospitals quietly stra…

Residency, reality and the courage to admit Europe needs people by Nadine Moreau

Against this backdrop, Spain’s move to regularize hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants is less radical than it is honest.

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#Spain #immigration #EuropeanUnion

Earth day in the age of drones by Virginia Robertson International Mother Earth Day arrives each year with familiar rituals: polished speeches, curated pledges, and a fleeting wave of collective concern. Governments reaffirm commitments, corporations…

Earth day in the age of drones by Virginia Robertson

While we celebrate the Earth, we are simultaneously tearing into it with precision, with efficiency and increasingly, with distance.

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Selective fear in a nuclear age by Dag Hansen There is something unsettling about the way the world chooses its anxieties. Not the existence of threats that part is constant but the uneven attention we grant them, the selective urgency that sa…

Selective fear in a nuclear age by Dag Hansen

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has issued a stark warning: North Korea has made “very serious” advances in its nuclear weapons program.

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#NorthKorea #nuclearweapons

Puppi & Caesar #43 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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Day of Mother Earth by Rene Wadlow The United Nations General Assembly in 2009 through resolution A/RES/63/278, under the leadership of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, designated 22 April as the International Mother Earth Day. T…

Day of Mother Earth by Rene Wadlow

The Day recognizes a collective responsibility, promote harmony with Nature so as to achieve a just balance among economic, social and ecological needs of the present and future generations.

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#InternationalMotherEarthDay

Fragility Of Notion #Poem by Jan Sand No doubt there are scratchingsOn dark walls of hidden cavesWhere ancient fleeing slaves have crouchedIn misery and fright to writeOf being here. This here where we each resideWith reality by our si…

Fragility Of Notion #Poem by Jan Sand

No doubt there are scratchings
On dark walls of hidden caves
Where ancient fleeing slaves have crouched

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Orbit of one by Gabriele Schmitt There is something quietly unsettling about how much of humanity’s future now bends around the ambitions of a single individual. Not in the theatrical, science-fiction sense of a villain stroking a…

Orbit of one by Gabriele Schmitt

There is something quietly unsettling about how much of humanity’s future now bends around the ambitions of a single individual.

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#ElonMusk #spaceexploration #Mars #Starlink

Fragility Of Notion #Poem by Jan Sand No doubt there are scratchingsOn dark walls of hidden cavesWhere ancient fleeing slaves have crouchedIn misery and fright to writeOf being here. This here where we each resideWith reality by our si…

Fragility Of Notion #Poem by Jan Sand

No doubt there are scratchings
On dark walls of hidden caves
Where ancient fleeing slaves have crouched
In misery and fright to write
Of being here.

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#eBook The tiger in the chapel of roses by Manisha Yadav

The priory’s bell tolled low, heavy in the smoky air of May, and the shadows inside the stone corridors deepened like spilled ink.

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#ebook #downloadfreeebook #ovipublishing #theovi #art #OviArt

2nd opinion! 26#07 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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First contact isn’t a tea ceremony. It’s a hostage crisis with humor. Five razor-edged sci-fi tales inside. Turn the page. Don’t blink. 🔪🪐

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The long game in black robes by Timothy Davies There is something almost theatrical, Shakespearean even about the idea of timing one’s exit for maximum political consequence. In Washington where power is rarely surrendered without calculation, …

The long game in black robes by Timothy Davies

There is something almost theatrical, Shakespearean even about the idea of timing one’s exit for maximum political consequence.

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#USSupremeCourt #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #DonaldTrump

The cloud has a body by Brea Willis We still speak of “the cloud” as if our photos, emails, and idle late-night searches drift somewhere above us, weightless and benign. It’s a linguistic sleight of hand, equal parts poetry and misdi…

The cloud has a body by Brea Willis

We still speak of “the cloud” as if our photos, emails, and idle late-night searches drift somewhere above us, weightless and benign.

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#datacenters #environment

The quiet squeeze on American art by Felix Laursen There is a particular kind of pressure that doesn’t arrive with sirens or declarations. It hums instead, low, persistent, and deniable. In recent years, that hum has settled over American art, not …

The quiet squeeze on American art by Felix Laursen

There is a particular kind of pressure that doesn’t arrive with sirens or declarations. It hums instead, low, persistent, and deniable.

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#USA #art #MAGA #usart

Fika bonding! #120 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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Caresse Crosby: A World Citizens’ Passionate Years by René Wadlow Caresse Crosby (April 20, 1891 – January 24, 1970) was one of the more colorful figures of the early world citizens movement, heading the World Citizen Information Center in Washington, D. C. Her a…

Caresse Crosby: A World Citizens’ Passionate Years by René Wadlow

Caresse Crosby (April 20, 1891 – January 24, 1970) was one of the more colorful figures of the early world citizens movement.

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When exploitation becomes ammunition by Marja Heikkinen There is a particular kind of damage that doesn’t come from numbers, but from narrative. It only takes a small fraction of people bending the rules to reshape how millions are perceived. Recent rev…

When exploitation becomes ammunition by Marja Heikkinen

There is a particular kind of damage that doesn’t come from numbers, but from narrative.

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#immigration #refugees

ARMAGEDDON Poem by David Sparenberg “A whole civilization will die tonight.”President Donald J. Trump * The howling of hatredAnd the madness of contagious warSpreads over the earth.In heavenThe wrath of God panics.The Hour of Armaged…

ARMAGEDDON Poem by David Sparenberg

The howling of hatred
And the madness of contagious war
Spreads over the earth.
In heaven
The wrath of God panics.
The Hour of Armageddon.

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Ovi Pulp Vortex #eMagazine – Issue 1 Welcome to Ovi’s Pulp Vortex eMagazine. You’re reading the first issue of a new kind of eMagazine. One that digs its heels into the grimy, beautiful, terrifying intersection where the human throat …

Ovi Pulp Vortex #eMagazine – Issue 1

Welcome to Ovi’s Pulp Vortex eMagazine. You’re reading the first issue of a new kind of eMagazine.

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#PulpVortex #SciFiPulp #OviPulpVortex #NewMagazineAlert #Ovi #OviMagazine #FreeMagazine #DownloadFreeMagazine #PulpFiction

AntySaurus Prick #128 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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Benjamin Ferencz, Champion of World Law, Leave a Strong Heritage on Which To Build by Rene Wadlow Benjamin Ferencz, champion of World Law and World Citizenship, died on April 7, 2023 at the age of 103, leaving a strong heritage of action for world law. He was particularly active in the creation…

Benjamin Ferencz, Champion of World Law, Leave a Strong Heritage on Which To Build by Rene Wadlow

Benjamin Ferencz, champion of World Law and World Citizenship, died on April 7, 2023 at the age of 103, leaving a strong heritage of action for world law.

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Mitsotakis & Epstein: The one scandal his government might not be involved in (Yet) by Thanos Kalamidas There comes a point when a scandal is no longer a scandal; it becomes the operating system of a government. Greece under Kyriakos Mitsotakis appears to have crossed that line long ago. The latest r…

Mitsotakis & Epstein: The one scandal his government might not be involved in (Yet) by Thanos Kalamidas

There comes a point when a scandal is no longer a scandal; it becomes the operating system of a government.

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#greece #Kyriakosmitsotakis #Corruption

Wounded Mother #Poem #Painting by Nikos Laios The ground shudders,Fires are burning,Apartment blocksAre being hitBy artillery shells,The blue skyNow greyFilled withBillowingSmokeRising up fromHouses, schoolsAnd hospitals,And the peopleAre hudd…

Wounded Mother #Poem #Painting by Nikos Laios

The ground shudders,
Fires are burning,
Apartment blocks
Are being hit
By artillery shells,
The blue sky
Now grey

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A war lost in the noise by Edoardo Moretti There is a peculiar hierarchy to global attention, and it rarely aligns with moral urgency. In recent months, the intensifying tensions between the United States and Iran have not merely added anot…

A war lost in the noise by Edoardo Moretti

There is a peculiar hierarchy to global attention, and it rarely aligns with moral urgency.

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#ukraine

Berserk Alert! #102 #Cartoon by Tony Zuvela

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The speed of folly by John Reid History is often unkind to wars begun with confidence and concluded in ambiguity but it reserves a special, almost incredulous scrutiny for those that seem to compress decades of misjudgment into a…

The speed of folly by John Reid

The comparison between the so-called “Gulf Wars” of the Bush era and Donald Trump’s own turbulent engagement with the same region is less about ideology than about tempo.

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#GulfWar #IranConflict

What It Feels Like To Be A Memory #poem by Abigail George The whole of Palestine has turned into a sea.The sea is just another dead poet. Just anothermartyr.The sea knows death and speaks itslanguage fluently,for death has now become its mother-tongue.Eac…

What It Feels Like To Be A Memory #poem by Abigail George

The whole of Palestine has turned into a sea.
The sea is just another dead poet. Just another
martyr.
The sea knows death and speaks its
language fluently

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Peace with certain conditions of irony by Sabine Fischer There is a particular kind of irony that does not announce itself loudly but lingers, subtle and persistent, like a note that refuses to resolve. The notion of Pakistan positioning itself as a peac…

Peace with certain conditions of irony by Sabine Fischer

There is a particular kind of irony that does not announce itself loudly but lingers, subtle and persistent, like a note that refuses to resolve.

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#Pakistan

fARTissimo #025 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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The Strait of Hormuz Blockade Vs. The Blockade of Gaza by Javed Akbar “Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen:your hands are full of blood.” With these searing words from Isaiah 1:15, invoked by Pope Leo XIV on Palm Sunday, March 29, 2026, a timeless mo…

The Strait of Hormuz Blockade Vs. The Blockade of Gaza by Javed Akbar

The mere whisper of disruption in the Strait of Hormuz sends tremors through capitals, markets, and militaries alike.

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#StraitOfHormuz #Gaza #blockade