WILL AOC CHALLENGE TRUMP AS THOREAU DID POLK?

By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) 1845–1848 CE: POLK EXPANDED THE UNITED STATES ACROSS THE CONTINENT President JAMES K. POLK entered office in 1845, determined to expand the United States to the Pacific. His program embodied what Americans soon called MANIFEST DESTINY—the conviction that the United States was entitled, even destined, to spread across …

MEXICO, Part 5 ANGLOS MASSACRED MEXICANS, STOLE CALIFORNIA, NEW MEXICO, UTAH, ARIZONA, NEVADA, TEXAS & parts of Colorado and Wyoming

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 …

Balance GIVING & GETTING–the poles of RECIPROCITIES, Part 4 of Amend the Malevolent Matrix Our Makers Mentored

By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) The Anunnaki bosses inculcated their Domination, caste, class, and authoritarian ideology in us Earthlings, but Anunnaki Princess Ninmah, the Great Goddess of ordinary people, offers a cooperative, synergistic partnership consciousness that can replace it. Every human relationship involves an exchange of something—energy, labor, affection, information, resources, protection, influence, or …

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 …

NORMANS WON AND OPPRESSED BRITAIN

  By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA), co-author (with Janet Kira Lessin) of ANUNNAKI, LEGACY OF THE GODS* NORMANS WON AND OPPRESSED BRITAIN > By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA), co-author (with Janet Kira Lessin) of ANUNNAKI, LEGACY OF THE GODS** > To watch the video that goes with this post, click the video …

CRUSADES: Domination Clothed in Piety

By Zecharia Sitchin students Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, U.C.L.A.) and Janet Kira Lessin (CEO, Aquarian Media) The Call to Holy War  In 1095 CE, Pope Urban II stood before a throng of knights and peasants at Clermont, France. He painted a picture of Jerusalem in chains and pilgrims in peril. “Jerusalem groans under the …

AUGUSTUS Arranged Rome’s Provincial Regions & Inflicted HEROD as JERUSALEM Boss (31–27 BCE)

AUGUSTUS ARRANGED ROME’S PROVINCIAL REGIONS & INFLICTED HEROD AS JERUSALEM’S BOSS (31–27 BCE) By Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles) Contributing Editor: Janet Kira Lessin Octavian crushed Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE, seized Alexandria in 30 BCE, and absorbed Egypt as his personal domain under …

AENEAS, Hector’s successor as Troy’s Commander, fled to Carthage (Tunisia) and then to Latium (Italy)

by Janet Lessin updated on June 22, 2025  By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) See more on this at https://wp.me/s1TVCy-greece AENEAS, Hector’s successor as Troy’s Commander, fled to Carthage (now in Tunisia) around 1190 BCE, then to Latium (Italy). Roman ruler Julius Caesar, much later, claimed he descended from Aeneas. By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) …