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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., Anthropology WHAT MAKES A SOCIETY FAIR OR UNFAIR Every society—ancient or modern—had to answer one big question: Will we treat each other fairly, or will a small group hold all the power? Among the Anunnaki, Ninmah encouraged sharing, balance, cooperation, and respect for every person. Enlil and Marduk, by contrast, …
The Irish Took the Blow and Carried the Fire The Irish rose from a land that England treated as expendable—a field to harvest, a people to grind down, a spirit to break. From the Boyne to the Penal Codes, from Cromwell’s burnings to the Great Hunger, each generation carried scars that were meant to silence …
