After Clinton Bombed Iraq, Did Cheney Orchestrate its conquest to occupy it & steal its oil?
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) HOW I WRITE THIS Where evidence exists, I state facts.Where records conflict, I name the dispute.Where certainty fails, I state my intuition or inference, not fact. I refuse to confuse outrage with proof—yet I refuse silence when power kills. EVENT SEQUENCE 1993 ── Clinton bombed Iraq in retaliation …
VIETNAM: A WAR THAT DID NOT NEED TO HAPPEN
VIETNAM: A WAR THAT DID NOT NEED TO HAPPEN How Manufactured Crisis, Programmed Rage, and Misguided Resistance Prolonged Human Suffering Will Trump & Hegseth do the same with Venezuela and Colombia? By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) INTRODUCTION Wars do not erupt spontaneously. They are prepared — psychologically, politically, and mythologically — long before …
Break the ANUNNAKI GODSPELL: Tim Leary’s & Neil Freer’s Legacies*
From Anunnaki, Evolution of the Gods * by Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. & Janet Kira Lessin BREAK THE GODSPELL & ACCESS SPIRITUALITY NEIL FREER Neil Freer (1943–2016), was a generalist, futant, futurist, lecturer, author, poet, and contributor to the Arlington Institute think tank. Neil and his wife, Ursula, lived in the Eldorado area. Neil …
“MYTHS” ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF WHAT PEOPLE SAW AND HEARD
Myths are our Ancestors’ Words for Technologies They Witnessed But Could Not Name. By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA), MA, Counseling Psychology, University for Humanistic Studies Introduction: MYTHS REPORT OBSERVATIONS OF SOCIETIES’ TECHNOLOGY AND COSMOLOGY Ancient peoples described what they saw and heard using the concepts and vocabulary their world offered. When advanced visitors—whether from …
HOWARD ZINN & THE PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE FOR THE U.S.: Cooperative Consciousness Vs. Dominaton-Dictated Dedication
HISTORY FROM BELOW, NOT FROM THE THRONE Howard Zinn wrote history from the ground up, not from the palaces, pulpits, or presidential podiums. His work stood in open defiance of domination-centered history—the kind that sanctifies conquest, excuses hierarchy, and presents elite violence as destiny. Zinn’s perspective aligned closely with what we identify here as Ninmah …
CARTHAGE, NORTH AFRICAN REPOSITORY OF HUMAN ENDEAVORS —814 BCE TO NOW
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) CARTHAGE, A CITY THAT REFUSED TO BE “JUST A COLONY” Phoenician sailors from Tyre (in what is now Lebanon) founded Carthage on the Gulf of Tunis, traditionally dated to around 814 BCE. Carthage began as a trading outpost, but its merchants, shipwrights, farmers, and priesthood turned it into …
KARL MARX, SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM & THE WELFARE STATE COOPERATIVE ALTERNATIVE TO MONOPOLY CAPITALISM — Why welfare states work but dictatorships don’t
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) WHY THIS MATTERS A man stared at his paycheck and said quietly to his partner, “I did everything right. Why does it still feel like I’m falling behind?” Karl Marx began with that same human pain. He saw clearly that unregulated capitalism concentrates wealth upward and leaves workers …
DURKHEIM, THE SACRED, AND THE ANUNNAKI PATTERN
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) Durkheim: Elementary Australian rituals reveal religion’s origins ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CLANS RELATED TO SPIRIT TOTEMS Durkheim sought the origins of religion—the first spark that led humans to feel a force greater than themselves. He found it among Australian clans, who gathered around painted poles, engraved rocks, the bodies of …
CLASS IS DESTINY — AND DESTINY IS RIGGED
Irish Migration, Shays’ Rebellion, Cromwell’s Dictatorship, Parsons’ Pattern, and Monopoly Capitalism** By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., Anthropology (UCLA) Introduction: THE STORY OF CLASS IS THE STORY OF DOMINATION From Cromwell’s conquest to the Irish diaspora, from Shays’ Rebellion to modern monopoly capitalism, one thread ties the ages together: Class. Class is not merely an economic location—it …