Mass murderer ASHOKA, ruler of almost all India from 265–238 BCE, used Buddhism like Trump uses Christianity, to silence critics

ASHOKA’S BEHAVIOR BELIES HIS PROPOGANDA By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) (Based on data from Decoding Ashoka’s Legacy by Odd Compass);  ASHOKA SAID HIS LOW-CASTE MOM WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A BRAHMAN Ashoka was born in 304 BCE, in a Mauryan palace already thick with palace intrigue and class anxiety. Later chroniclers said his …

THE TRAIL OF TEARS: AMERICA’S MARCH OF DOMINATION

By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) “It is not a figure of speech,” the old Cherokee man said, staring into the embers of the council fire. “It was a real trail. And those were real tears.” BEFORE THE WHITES CAME Long before Andrew Jackson’s men forced them west, the CHEROKEE had walked between two worlds—the …