The Rise of the Speculator After the American Revolution, wealthy speculators bought vast tracts of frontier land. They sought profits through resale. Andrew Jackson led these men. He became the most destructive enemy the Native nations ever faced. In 1814, at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Jackson defeated the Creek Nation. Cherokee allies secured this …
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.(Anthropology, UCLA) and Janet Kira Lessin, (CEO, Aquarian Media), Contributing Author: Janet Kira Lessin A PATTERN, NOT AN ACCIDENT The United States was founded in explicit rejection of monarchy, inherited power, and rule by fear. The Constitution established a radical premise for its time: political authority flows upward from the people, …
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., Anthropology, UCLA CONGRESS CRIMINALIZED DISSENT VIA SEDITION AND ESPIONAGE ACTS In 1917–1918, lawmakers criminalized honest speech against war policy. Officials arrested critics. Judges handed down harsh sentences. Postal authorities blocked anti-war newspapers. The First Amendment sat ignored while elected leaders punished people of conscience. Howard Zinn wrote: “During war, government …
Spinoza researched, documented, understood, and promoted the Great Anunnaki Goddess Ninmah’s cooperative and nature-oriented Consciousness to counter the domination-obsession that Homo sapiens sapiens Anunnaki Princes Yahweh/Enlil and Marduk/Zeus used to control us Homo sapiens/Homo erectus Hybids for the last 200,000 years. AMSTERDAM 1632–1655: CHILD OF EXILES IN A DANGEROUS LIBRARY Baruch (Bento) de Spinoza was …
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 …
