A response to the song I’m no kin to the monkey
I’m glad to be kin to the monkey
I’m glad to be kin to all life
My ancestors are your ancestors
And some of them held a stone knife
Sometimes they hunted or scavenged
Sometimes they ate roots and seeds
Animal hides were their blankets
Nature provided their needs
You’re…
One very important point you haven't mentioned... There are people in the Donbass region who are fighting alongside the Russian army, against the Ukrainian government forces.
From their point of view, the war did not start in February 2022. Their region has been under attack (and partially occupied) for the…
I strongly agree that the world today faces problems that require global solidarity and cooperation.
Your quote from Alphonse de Lamartine reminded me of the final words of a hymn from India, the Annapūrṇā Stotra attributed to the sage Śaṅkara: "My homeland is the threefold world."
The nationalist right is…
I don't dispute your statement that the Folgore unit in Italy would take part in any fascist coup d'etat. The difference is that Ukraine has already had a coup, back in Febuary 2014. And neo-nazi paramilitaries took part in that, though they weren't then branding themselves as Azov.
Then there…
You characterise the current world situation as a systemic conflict between “fragile western democracies” and “totalitarian” Russian and China. That’s exactly what we were told during the Cold War, from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. (It became more compllicated after Nixon's trip to Beijing.) And I’m wondering whether…