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Dec 10 2024 
You can’t win a chess match without losing pieces
Syria had been on the board for a long time surrounded by hostile pieces. As the chess match progressed, it was only a matter of time that this piece would be captured. It is like a sudden death that everyone knew was coming, yet somehow unexpected. Very sad for loved ones, but life just goes… Continue reading
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Dec 04 2024 
“Palestine – My Palestine” Susan Abulhawa – Addressing the Oxford Union Debate on 28 November 2024
From Peter Koenig
Intro:
What this superb Lady, Susan Abulhawa says to the Oxford Union elitists – is way beyond extraordinary. She stuns the black-suited crowd of Oxford Zionists or Zionist supporters with her historic knowledge, with her frankness, demolishing the Zionist objective of killing all Palestinians to appropriate this fertile and productive Holy Land of olive… Continue reading -
Dec 02 2024 
Controlled Chaos: The Blueprint for Redrawing the Middle East/West Asia
I’ve written a few chronicles on chaos creation, suggesting that chaos is a strategy. In one of these, Empire: the strategy, the tactics, I noted at the time that it is “.. hard to judge how much energy the west still has to create chaos and destabilization. It is impossible to say if we are… Continue reading
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Nov 27 2024 
Your relationship with another bubble
Disclaimer: I fully realize that my writing is not always for everyone or recognizable. I am a Westerner and write this piece from my situation primarily to my fellow Westerners to provide interpretation from an alternative perspective.
Polarization in society took extreme forms in Corona times. Whereas the majority was amenable to the propagated fear porn… Continue reading
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Nov 25 2024 
Unfathomable questions
These questions are so much part of where we are in the world but yet, they are unfathomable. Take a quess, what is your calculus on these?
1. The full spectrum agreement between Russia and Iran seems to be taking a long time. I’ve seen news from time to time that… Continue reading
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Nov 25 2024
You will have to do it yourself, always
My statement is that mutual communication is all about being able to receive and not to transmit. We pay too much attention to our words and are therefore an unwanted filter for others. By constantly trying to convince others of our truth, we deprive them of the opportunity to be able to find their own… Continue reading
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Nov 18 2024
An Open Letter to all Western Politicians
I have a confession to make, which is that I have not voted in elections for the last ten years. The reason is simple, I don’t trust them anymore. I am writing this open letter now, but actually I don’t expect anything from it. I think this letter will hardly be read by politicians. Certainly… Continue reading
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Nov 08 2024 
Putin Outlines The ‘Moment of Truth’
President Putin’s plenary session performance (address + Q&A) at the annual Valdai Club meeting in Sochi felt like a high-speed train on cruise control.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
Totally cool, calm, comfortable, in full command of a Himalaya of facts, no political leader anywhere – recent past and present – would even come close to delivering… Continue reading
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Nov 08 2024 
Negotiating? Raise the stakes!
By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co
There are signs that the West suddenly wants to negotiate a cease-fire in Ukraine. The first question one then asks is who is actually authorized to negotiate, after all the West is only a supplier and not a principal or executor, right? The only one who can negotiate is Ukraine itself.
Then… Continue reading
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Nov 07 2024
Sensitivities
By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co
We tend to lump many things together and then think we understand each other. Communication is the main barrier between people. Not speaking each other’s language, literally and figuratively, means doubting the connection.
How can you explain to yourself a dream that has come to you in loose strangely knotted fragments? If… Continue reading
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Nov 03 2024
Spiritual lessons you learn differently
By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co
Spiritual lessons are like learning to ride a bicycle, not by thinking but by feeling. Learning to ride a bike has mostly to do with balance and you can’t explain that. As a novice cyclist, you will have to learn to feel and use balance. No one can teach… Continue reading
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Oct 30 2024
The question on everyone’s mind
By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co
We know the big questions of life. What is life like? Does God exist? What did man come to do on Earth? Is there life elsewhere in the Universe? But there are also more personal questions. Who am I? What have I come to do on Earth?
Ever since man learned to… Continue reading
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Oct 26 2024
The intent of the collective determines
My workday at the office is done and I look outside. The autumn days are getting shorter and it is raining. I put on my rain suit and get on my bike home. The first few miles I try to keep myself dry. I sit a little cramped and even saggy on the bike and… Continue reading
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Oct 15 2024 
The Sermon
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapter 9
The Sermon
Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense. “Star board gangway, there! side away to larboard—larboard gangway to starboard! Midships! midships!”
There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women’s shoes,… Continue reading
