By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) The U.S. theft of Northern Mexico was not a “westward movement”; it was an engineered expansion. The United States provoked a border clash, framed it as self-defense, and converted war into continental acquisition. The result was a republic stretched from Atlantic to Pacific—secured with artillery, diplomacy, debt, and …
Part I: June 25, 2009 — THE DAY EVERYTHING CHANGED by Janet Lessin,* CEO, World Peace Association In this post, we explore how recurring archetypes of empire — visible across ancient civilizations — continue to influence modern political systems. This is not partisan commentary. It’s a structural analysis. We examine Centralization of authority, Technocratic governance, Psychological …
Partnership vs Domination after the Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521–1820s) By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) The fall of Tenochtitlan did not end the domination of the many by the few in Mexico. Murderous Spanish bosses and priests replaced the even more murderous Aztec mass sacrifices. The Spanish imposed two other burdens on the poor; …
THE FALL OF TENOCHTITLAN: ALLIANCE, DISEASE, AND REGIME REPLACEMENT What followed the arrival of Spanish Soldier Hernán CORTÉS in 1519 was not a duel between Europe and Mesoamerica, nor the triumph of a handful of Spaniards over a mighty empire. It was, as historian Stefan Rinke emphasizes, a multilateral civil war inside central Mexico, accelerated …
IN PREP; VIEW LATER By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) After 1400, the Mexica (Aztecs) inherited fragments of the Earlier, Mayan/Anunnaki-directed worship of Sumerian Lords with new, Tolan names they had learned as laborers in Teotihuacan. From these fragments, the Aztecs developed their own ideology and social system at Tenochtitlan. Centuries after Thoth / …
Part 1 of MEXICO, CROSSROAD OF CULTURES Overview of Series Mexico’s deep history did not unfold as a simple rise and fall of isolated cultures. It emerged instead as a long, cumulative experiment in human cooperation, engineering, astronomy, and power—repeatedly reshaped by outside incursions, internal hierarchies, ecological limits, and visionary bursts of collective intelligence. From …
MEXICO TIMELINE By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) MEXICO TIME CHART 1. 3000–1500 BCE Early agricultural societies, maize domestication, and village cooperation 2. 1200–400 BCE Olmec horizon; monumental stone, shared iconography, early coordination systems 3. 100 BCE – 550 CE …
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) 4,000-1492: PRE-COLUMBIAN CUBA DIVERSE PARTNERSHIP-ORIENTED CARIBBEAN INDIANS PEOPLED CUBA Long before Spanish ships landed in 1492, the island was home to diverse Indigenous peoples whose ways of life were rooted in local ecology, kinship, and cooperative subsistence rather than domination hierarchies. Earliest inhabitants / Archaic cultures (c. 4000 …
by Janet Kira Lessin, CEO, World Peace Association Compare Hitlerian, Orwellian, and Machiavellian Power Strategies Throughout history, leaders and thinkers have developed different approaches to power, governance, and control. While some have sought to rule through brute force, others have relied on psychological manipulation or cunning political maneuvering. Among the most infamous and widely discussed …
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) Across history, two currents compete for Greenland. One is the murderous domination syndrome—empires, corporations, and militaries grabbing land, resources, and strategic positions. The other is the cooperative partnership current, echoing the Great Goddess tradition—local peoples living in balance with sea, ice, and sky. This timeline traces Greenland from …
