Mystical Politics

Peter Baker : “Trump and Vance Berate Zelensky During Testy White House Meeting.” President Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Presi...

It seems there is no end to evil.  This morning (between 9:00-10:00 am Israel time, between 2:00-3:00 am east coast US time, Hamas handed ov...

Among the many evil things the Trump administration has already done only in his first month in office (hard to believe!) is their attempt t...

 

The Southside Community Center in Ithaca is hosting a panel discussion on "Solidarity in Struggle: Black and Palestinian Resistance,...

I feel tremendously embittered. The war between Israel and Hamas has gone on for fifteen months since October 7, 2023. The Israeli hostages ...

This year Hanukkah extended over two secular years - into January 1 and 2, 2025. A few years ago the first day of Hanukkah was on Thanksgivi...

 

I'm sad that President Biden will be leaving office in a little more than three weeks, and not just because he will be replaced by Donal...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-thaad-system-deployed-in-israel-participated-in-last-nights-houthi-missile-interception/ In ...

"This is the place of horrors" NBC reports today: Syrian mass graves show the worst abuses 'since the Nazis,' top prosecut...

 

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib  2 hr Let there be no doubt: without a weakened, defeated, tamed & humiliated Hezbollah, the Syrian opposition woul...

From Ben Walzer on Facebook : Astounding to follow the precipitous collapse of the murderous Assad dynasty that has killed half a million Sy...

It has just been announced that Assad has fled Damascus and that rebels have entered the presidential palace. I remember when Aleppo fell in...

Professor Eric Cheyfitz of Cornell University will be teaching a course in spring 2025 with the title of " Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistanc...

I just went and reread what I wrote in this blog about the fall of Aleppo to Assad and the Russians in 2016. The United States shamefully d...

I'm very troubled by the two laws that the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has just passed, to prevent UNRWA, the UN refugee agency for...

 

Momodou Taal, a foreign graduate student at Cornell (from the UK), has been banned from the Cornell campus because he has violated conduct r...