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Aug 14 2025 
The Pairs Of Perception
The original Apple logo, for reasons we’ll get into
By indi.caModern thought is wrought with divisions that we need not. Between economy and ecosystem. Between production and reproduction. The language is close enough, but the thought is not. As we can see from our interconnected lives, these are all connected concepts. In many ways the same… Continue reading
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Aug 10 2025 
Getting Used To Abuse
Featured image: As the Smashing Pumpkins said, ‘despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage’. Photo of author in Svalbard, Norway
By indi.ca
At one point it would have been farcical that I’d be banned from America for speech. But now my family just laughs about it. That’s how deep the… Continue reading
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Aug 05 2025 
Tripoli: The Scent of History
A poignant travelogue and historical review of this former pearl port city of the Eastern Mediterranean
Laith Marouf and Hadi Hotait travel to Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest city, to discover its hidden and neglected treasures, discuss its brilliant past, and analyze threats by the USA to hand it over to the Wahhabi Death-Squads governing Syria today,… Continue reading
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Aug 04 2025 
“The enemy is the system that needs an enemy.” An alchemical approach (brought forward)
Stated as an opposing picture to the hopes of the Global South and a multipolar world, this statement resonates becauses it exposes a rhetorical fallacy, a perception that is faulty. This is: The true enemy isn’t the current “them,” but the structure that necessitates a “them” in the first place.
The mechanism of oppression is self-perpetuating:
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Jul 31 2025 
Kings of Chaos
I wonder what readers expect to find in this essay. That’s actually often part of the fun of writing for me, because I enjoy weaving and twisting things around. Kings of Chaos—who would know this game?
First, let me tell you a little about myself. My attention span averages two years. That means that every two… Continue reading
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Jul 29 2025
Overestimation
Underestimating your opponent is foolish. Overestimating yourself is even more foolish.
The West and the Global South regularly underestimate each other and overestimate themselves. This is not helpful and can even be dangerous. It increases the likelihood of World War III. I hope this essay will shake people awake and spur them to action.
When I read… Continue reading
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Jul 26 2025 
Sam Backed Siam Slaps Hun Sen’s Kampuchea
As always, us fleas are squashed when geopolitical mammoths collide.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
This flareup between Cambodia and Thailand deserves a much closer scrutiny. Before you go to Brian Berletic, Danny Haiphong or, God forbid, Scott Ritter, it’s best you pay the utmost attention to every syllable, pause and mispronunciation… Continue reading
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Jul 26 2025
Letter to my daughter, mother of my grandchildren
This is a personal letter that will actually be sent, and I am sharing it here so that other parents can also send it to their children. You can adapt the letter as you wish or write a new letter from your heart.
Dear daughter,
We have often discussed the current situation and everything that… Continue reading
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Jul 25 2025 
Dodging Wars in Departure Lounges
A soulful globe-trotter reports from Vietnam, traveling from Cambodia, of life and timeless imperial pyrotechnics
Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Since I’ve shown an interest in her past, Mrs. Seven, a 63-year-old widow living with two dogs, keeps telling me more. In Hai Phong 40 years ago as part of a performance troupe, she was… Continue reading
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Jul 18 2025
DeepSeek Asks the Questions
By now you know that I enjoy talking to DeepSeek. I ask questions and get answers – inspiration and lots of useful information. But this time, I turned the tables. I turned into a fun “interview” that I am excited to share. I share all the text verbatim, so without any omissions (except for DeepSeek’s… Continue reading
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Jul 15 2025
Pathways to inner freedom
How Buddha, Ayyub, Chitraketu and other sages teach us to embrace aging, illness and death as pathways to inner freedom.
Do you wish to be free? Then learn to live in surrender. The stories of Buddha, Ayyub, Chitraketu and other sages show that liberation begins when we face suffering rather than flee from it.… Continue reading
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Jul 06 2025
One year, 77 articles & countless insights: My gratitude journey on GlobalSouth.co
July 6, 2024 I sent an email to Amarynth. “I wrote a short essay about how to proceed as human kind. Would you mind reading it and give your thoughts about it? I wrote it in Dutch but used a good machine translator to have the text in English. I think it needs adjustment, but… Continue reading
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Jun 30 2025 
Chinese Pop Band Innokids: Fireworks over Israel
Jeff J Brown sent us this song by a Chinese Pop Band and first appearing on the Chinese social media, Bilibili.
There are a number of download options on Jeff’s page:
The band states:
We created this song to uphold a just cause:
The right of Iran and other Middle-Eastern Islamic nations
To defend themselves againt Israeli hegemony.
LyricsFireworks over Israel
By:… Continue reading
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Jun 28 2025 
Email to a group of friends
Generally, we deal with open-source information. At times, we receive gems from those who are quietly talking to one another – and the world is talking. At times, these quiet conversations between friends highlight issues that we don’t pick up.
It is encouraging that groups of friends talk. Away from the hustle and bustle, just quietly.… Continue reading
