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  • Slices of Life, #16

    “People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad. “As humans, we’re born naked and will leave with nothing,” yet another monk speaks.”

    with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.

    Bill Gates, Primo Levi and Max Beckmann in Vietnam — Nov 13, 2025.

    Just before 5AM, I got a… Continue reading

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  • Reflections on the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals

    Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: The Anglo-Saxons resisted their creation. They wanted summary mass executions, not justice nor exploration of root causes.

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    The fundamental root cause of conflict between the Anglo-American led West and the Rest of Humanity, especially the civilizational-states, is the hypocritical bifurcation in International Law, due to recent precedence of “rules-based order” imposed by… Continue reading

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  • Slices of Life, #15

    “No life is boring if properly recounted. His given name, Quyết Chiến, means Determined to Fight. Quyết Thắng means Determined to Win.”

    with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.

    Nguyễn Quyết Chiến — Nov 05, 2025.

    An extraordinary story imperfectly told is better than one simply ignored. I will now tell you about a Vietnamese-American in Oklahoma.… Continue reading

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  • Slices of Life, #14

    “I walked past a McDonald’s, Starbucks, 7-11 and Kentucky Fried Chicken, all lined up, cheek to cheek. America’s icons will survive its collapse.”

    with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.

    Go There! — Oct 29, 2025.

    Walking a couple miles, I got a last look at everything, that square with the serene stupa and Tibetan temple, KTM… Continue reading

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  • Why did the Aborigines eat Cook

    … Essentially, we need to do what the West is doing to us.

    By Rostislav Ishchenko at Ukraine.ru.

    (machine translation)

    For those who always worry that there are too many words, I will express the meaning of this material in one phrase: don’t be complacent, it won’t get any better.

    Now, for everyone else who doesn’t get it with just… Continue reading

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  • Slices of Life, #13

    What matters is Thầy Thím’s perseverance against tyranny and misfortune.

    with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.

    Holy Water Puddles — Oct 11, 2025.

    I’m typing my first words at 6:03PM. Yesterday, I ate beef wrapped in piper lolot leaves dipped in a fermented fish sauce, mắm nêm, which is very salty. This morning I woke up… Continue reading

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  • What really happened in Alaska

    The Putin–Trump meeting dropped some important veils. It revealed that Washington views Russia as a peer power, and that Europe is little more than a useful American tool.

    By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.

    Alaska was not only about Ukraine. Alaska was mostly about the world’s top two nuclear powers attempting to rebuild trust and apply the… Continue reading

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  • How To Live, What To Do

    They have all shoehorned themselves into the system, each immersed in an ecology with clear, unspoken rules, taboos, heroes and villains. To be evicted from all that has forced me, daily, to encounter a much larger world, and to be freer than ever.

    with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.

    Pairing me with Hung… Continue reading

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  • Peace Breaks

    With that, everything was solved, at least this morning in this drowsy city by the ocean, where corpses are no longer washed back onto shores.

    with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.

    We’ll see if this ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand holds. If I hadn’t just returned from Jordan, I would take a bus… Continue reading