Mystic Politics

The Religious and the Secular in the Modern World http://mys.tc/1sh religion politics humanism

Alienation Goes Global: Third World Capitalism http://mys.tc/1rl economy politics ows society

[Image] Almost always the #creative, dedicated #minority has made the #world better - MLK Jr.

Shocker: Is Our World Becoming Less Violent? http://mys.tc/1ms death murder war society culture

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything -Einstein

5 Companies That Did Something Good for the World This Year http://mys.tc/1jy ows corporatism

Christmas Traditions Around The World http://mys.tc/1jw religion holidays

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies ‘of heart attack’ http://mys.tc/1j6 jongil world news politics

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies ‘of heart attack’

“North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died of a heart attack at the age of 69, state media have announced.

Millions of North Koreans were “engulfed in indescribable sadness”, the KCNA state news agency said, as people wept openly in Pyongyang.”

With Friends Like These… Gingrich, Israel and the Palestinians

“The original Newton discovered the Law of Gravity. Newton Leroy Gingrich has discovered something no less earth-shaking: there is an “invented” people around, referring to the Palestinians.

Who are these Palestinians? About a hundred years ago, two young students in Istanbul, David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the future Prime Minister and President (respectively) of Israel, wrote a treatise about the Palestinians. The population of this country, they said, has never changed. Only small elites were sometimes deported. The towns and villages never moved, as their names prove. Canaanites became Israelites, then Jews and Samaritans, then Christian Byzantines. With the Arab conquest, they slowly adopted the religion of Islam and the Arabic Culture. These are today’s Palestinians. I tend to agree with them.”