Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 25/11/2025The belief that peace is around the corner with a provision that gives Ukraine a NATO-like guarantee is delusional so long as Russia has the upper hand. It can sustain this war for a long while. 133
Reposted by Cory SatterSahel Research Group @ufsahelresearch.bsky.social · 10/11/2025From High and Dry to Low and Wet: The Political Ecology of Urban Flooding in Nouakchott, by @corysatter.bsky.social satter.substack.com/p/from-high-... 001
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I am happy to have contributed to an analysis of the rapidly deteriorating security situation in #Mali, especially the ever-tightening blockade of #Bamako by #JNIM with @ufsahelresearch.bsky.social. Read our analysis here: theconversation.com/jihadists-ha...theconversation.comJihadists have blockaded Mali’s capital. What’s at stakeBamako faces an uncertain future. 020
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Genocides often accelerate as the perpetrators feel they are running out of time. As pressure mounts on Israel, the West continues supplying it with arms. Such is Western policy coherence. 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 30/07/2025One of the scariest ideas is that Israel may accelerate its genocide to create a fait accompli in September, when the UK and other countries say they will recognize a Palestinian state if nothing changes - already far, far overdue. 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 29/07/2025I hope the University of Florida will now condemn this genocide, and sever all ties with Israel following the publications of two Israel human rights NGOs, one of which I spent time with in 2017, attesting that Israel is indeed committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. All other unis should follow. 010
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Over a dozen starvation deaths today in Gaza, and Columbia expels and revokes degrees of those who protest against this 21st-century genocide www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...aljazeera.comColumbia University suspends, expels nearly 80 students over Gaza protestsSome students also had their degrees revoked for participating in antiwar protests, including the 2024 Gaza encampments. 100
Reposted by Cory SatterAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025"Art of the ceasefire: U.S. pretends to obliterate Iran's nuclear sites Iran pretends to retaliate Israel pretends to have won" - @stephenwertheim.bsky.social 12613
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Given Iran’s pathetic inability to do anything to defend itself, I would assume they are seriously reconsidering that fatwa on nuclear weapons 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Some of these attacks look intended to facilitate regime change. I’m going to assume that is now the goal, or always was 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Israel attacking Iran with full-force in the hopes Iran targets US troops? 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Another blow for realism, it seems. States do not prioritize their survival above all else, or seek to maximize power. Maybe they *should*, but the idea that they *do* isn’t the same. Clearly, cultural worldviews and even self-esteem are more important. 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 20/06/2025“Terrorism” has become such a meaningless word www.bbc.com/news/article... Palestine Action to be banned after RAF base break in - BBC Newsbbc.comPalestine Action to be banned after RAF base break inThe home secretary will move to proscribe the Palestine Action group in the coming weeks, the BBC understands. 011
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Trump seems to make major decisions right around the time Wall Street closes for the weekend. Eyes should also be kept on Iran’s talks with European leaders (Iran says it is merely “listening”) 100
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Three thoughts on possibilities of Trump's 2 week deadline: 1) Trump is trying to find an off-ramp 2) It's a ploy 3) Trump wants Israel to wear Iran down a bit more, before the US engages directly 100
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Some really weird psychological projection going on in Israel. This could inform research for decades. 100
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Trump is looking as if he's wavering. Which way will he fall? 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Many Israelis now seem to be against strikes on hospitals… after theirs was hit. Yet any sympathy they might have enjoyed instead is met with Schadenfreude and derision in the face of such blatant hypocrisy. A world without international law and basic human rights norms is a very dangerous world. 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Trump says “nobody what I’m going to do.” I don’t even know if Trump knows what Trump is going to do. 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 18/06/2025How does Germany end up on the wrong side of history every damn time? Old habits die hard, I suppose. 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025If you know anything about Iran, if you've read the Shahnameh - the essence of Iranian identity - then you'll know that Iran will never surrender. 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025When seen in context with ordering all of Tehran (10 million people) to evacuate, then saying no ceasefire, and promising something "much bigger" in the opposite direction, Trump's post seems to border on nuclear blackmail. 121
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025If national epics capture the soul and essence of a nation, the Shahnameh might lend us to believe that Iran will fight on regardless of the costs - as a matter of honor and pride 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Seems pretty clear Israel is pursuing its Hezbollah strategy against Iran. I think the idea is to sufficiently weaken the regime in the hopes that an uprising might do the rest. Even if that occurs, they might be left disillusioned. 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Israel is going to become associated by a broad swathe and perhaps even majority of the American public with all that is the rot of the bipartisan US governing system. This will be Israel’s long term undoing. 010
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I think the protestors burning US flags are making major miscalculations. They are useful idiots. Even in the minority, those images will spread the idea that identity politics and multiculturalism threaten to tear the nation apart, and build support for their repression. 100
Reposted by Cory SatterCrisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 03/06/2025NEW STATEMENT | Europe on Gaza: Words Are Not Enough A rising chorus of European states have condemned #Israel’s military campaign in the #Gaza Strip. While much depends on Washington, European leaders have levers at their disposal to press for the war’s end. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...crisisgroup.orgEurope on Gaza: Words Are Not Enough | International Crisis GroupA rising chorus of European states have condemned Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip after months of siege and bombardment. While much depends on Washington, European leaders have levers at ... 065
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Nothing has convinced me more that we have state media and an unfree press than corporate media’s coverage of the genocide in Gaza 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Nuremberg established that following orders isn’t a defense. He should be tried. Essentially his salary was more important. He could have resigned. www.middleeasteye.net/trending/smi...middleeasteye.net‘Smirker of the genocide’: Outrage after Matthew Miller says Israel committed war crimesFormer Biden official says Israel has 'without a doubt' committed war crimes, following months of denial 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 02/05/2025"military force is the best way to bring back the hostages" www.timesofisrael.com/trump-fewer-...timesofisrael.comTrump: Fewer than 24 hostages are alive; we don’t know how Edan Alexander is doingUS president echoes comments made by Sara Netanyahu, which infuriated families as they were not updated before reported divulgence of partially classified intel 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Roberts was not “outmatched”. Why do we assume this is the best we can do? Why do we surrender, rather than fight? You can’t give Trump a treat to behave better. It encourages him. We need to come down firm from the outset. And defend what we pretend as our values. 010
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I’m tired of the trope that politicians “can’t” do stuff because of institutional constraints. Is that why Republicans “can’t” stand up and say we need to get Kilmar Abrego Garcia back? There is a degree of free will in politics. There is simply no courage. 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Not going to support political violence, especially when others are put at risk. Just going to say it’s hard for me to empathize with you losing your home when you support domicide, and other -cides. 100
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Forget politics. Whoever saw Trump as some loving father figure who cares about people… how can you be that stupid? 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Trump tweets out video of what is almost certainly the US bombing a tribal gathering in Yemen—a clear war crime 010
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Many in the GOP, including Trump, are racist or harbor racist stereotypes, but reducing them to racist obscures that they are more aporophobic (hatred of poor people) than anything. They have a social Darwinist, West-is-best creed: be rich, assimilate, and all will be well nypost.com/2025/04/03/u...nypost.comTrump unveils $5 million ‘gold card’ for rich migrants emblazoned with his imagePresident Trump proudly showed off the design of his administration’s new $5 million “gold card” to reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday. 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Probably shouldn't do this… but Rachel Zegler says "free Palestine" once and gets a visit from Marc Platt. She is somehow responsible for the box office flop by putting her "immature desires" over Platt's $$$. But Gal Gadot speaks out incessantly about her support for the IDF—with no controversy! 100
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Europe is so schizophrenic www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...aljazeera.comEurope imports more Russian gas, aiding wartime economy, report findsEurope increased its imports of Russian gas last year, says Ember, putting billions into Putin’s Ukraine war chest. 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 22/03/2025I feel pretty sure that it isn’t going to be well-educated liberals who spearhead any opposition to Trump, but rather that if organized pushback emerges it will come from a reinvigorated and suffering labor movement. Not a rosy outlook 010
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I have zero faith in the US university system to resist Trump. The larger question is whether its students will. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comUS universities face choice to surrender or fight back against Trump’s takeover‘Extraordinary fear’ takes hold at universities as Trump campaign threatens investigations or loss of federal funds 131
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The term "illiberal democracy" needs to die. At best, it is a pseudo-democracy, but there is nothing democratic about it. It's simply authoritarianism in thin disguise. www.politico.eu/article/tayy...politico.euErdoğan’s main rival arrested in major clampdown on Turkish oppositionArrested mayor of Istanbul accuses authorities of blow “against the will of the people.” 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Israel’s genocidal policy is ensuring that it erodes the post-Holocaust sympathy for the Jewish people. At the same time, Israel is aligning itself with anti-Semitic, far-right elements in the West and associates its actions with the Jewish people as a whole. This is bound to dangerously backfire. 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 17/03/2025If the Houthis desired a regional conflagration, holding Iran - who doesn’t have all that much influence over the Houthis anyway - responsable is bound to be counterproductive… 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Bukele’s “Terrorism Confinement Center” is a mass concentration camp and a ticking time bomb. Someday there will be a jail break, or budget cuts will lead to prisoners being released. They will all have new connections- and desire for vengeance. 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Trump’s way of sending a “warning” is literally bombing people. Most people consider that the beginning of hostilities. 000
Reposted by Cory SatterPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions 671101804995
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025A good rule of thumb for Democrats at this point is, if their leadership supports it, it’s probably the wrong move 000
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The more the establishment embraces Israel and adopts draconian measures in its favor, the more they discredit Israel and sow the seeds of its demise. 010
Cory Satter @corysatter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Specifically, the UN accused Israel of genocide. The @nytimes.com refers to it as “targeting”. Remind me how they are considered a newspaper of record? 000