If the entire Gaza Strip was divided into parcels the size of a football field, picture “A” shows how many people would be crowded onto each field. And this was BEFORE the current phase of a 75+ year COLONIZING and ETHNIC-CLEANSING project taking place throughout the former British Mandate of Palestine (the earlier Ottoman […]
We all rely on experience to understand the world and to make good decisions. History is just experience written down and passed on. If your coal miner great-grandfather tells you about how the mining companies once made virtual slaves of entire communities, and that the miners went out on strike, he is sharing his […]
From ancient Sumer, through to Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, and Rome, religion and state power have been intertwined for nearly 6,000 years. In the year 590 CE, a wealthy Roman senator’s son named Gregorius Anicius became pope, and just over a decade later he sent a Roman missionary named Paulinus to Britain, in an effort to convert […]
Genealogy is often treated like the red-headed stepchild of historical research. Stated as simply as possible, genealogists tend to sift through data at a more granular level than historians. An historian is mostly concerned with whether a source is primary or secondary – that is to say, “Was a written document written by a […]
There is far too much headscratching going on among liberals, progressives, and academics trying to explain what is happening to US democracy right now. It is simple. A small cabal of men are attempting to concentrate the maximum amount of wealth and power in their own hands, until they can bring down democracy. There […]
The photo above is a picture of woman born in 1929, taken in 1985. Odds are, 99 out of 100 people have never heard her name, nor would the public-at-large recognise her face. A native of Phoenix, Arizona, with Jewish and Catholic parents, she would team-up in New York City with a man born […]
A “saint” who was never made a saint by the church which claims him. Culturally he was almost certainly a Briton or Welshman. Or more specifically, he was “Romano-Welsh”, born in about 386 CE to wealthy parents who lived and prospered at the outer British fringe of the Roman Empire. In 386 CE, Wales […]
After reading some of the less savoury comments under a recent post, it became clear to me just how many MAGA cultists seem to believe that country music “belongs” to them, and them alone. This old lefty ain’t conceding the music I was raised-on to any Christo-fascists. They’re welcome to their Toby Keiths and […]
4 years, 20 episodes, and 163 essays In which we reintroduce ourselves… In such challenging, and yes, scary times, all of us look for voices of sanity. Not ranting, not polemics, just good old-fashioned sober analysis of what is going down. Investigative journalism is being gutted by the takeover of mainstream media by […]
American authorities insisted in the aftermath of the Second World War that Japanese and German schoolchildren be forced to face into the facts of what their governments had done in their name. A people who do not accept the wrong of their actions cannot move forward and beyond their crimes. Germans still debate to […]
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