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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co
Before I get to this last part of predictions, I want to explain something about predictions. In part, I’ve already done that here before, but it can’t hurt to give another overview. Mind you, this is my perspective and the reader is completely free to take a different view.
First set of… Continue reading
By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co
First set of predictions: https://globalsouth.co/2024/10/03/predictions-for-the-year-2025-and-beyond-a-story-of-hope-and-faith/
Last set of predictions: https://globalsouth.co/2024/10/10/third-and-final-part-predictions-for-2025-and-beyond/
A series of predictions always leads to questions and curiosity about possible events closer to people. These questions are always welcome, just as curiosity is a fine quality because it allows us to be open to whatever presents itself in our lives. In… Continue reading
By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co
There are books full of them, but let me just keep it practical. We all experience stress to some degree in our lives. We cause it ourselves and it is caused by what happens to us. Our own stress is partly conscious and partly unconscious. What happens to us is beyond… Continue reading
By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co
Everyone knows it, that little white lie that grows into a huge conflict. Your friend asked where you were and you made up an excuse on the spot as to why you couldn’t be at his party. The following days became awkward, because in the group of friends some of them… Continue reading
