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- The Antietam Battlefield with Two Children
- Ban Plastic Bags, or Tax Them?
- David Brooks' Trump Crisis
- Faces II
- The Clinton Strategy for the Fall Campaign
- "Everybody loves their mother" watch
- John Boehner on Ted Cruz
- James Monroe: Not as Humble as We Thought
- A Possible Problem with Medical Studies of Obesity
- Cruz Chooses a Running Mate
- Daedalus Intaglio, 1st Century CE
- When Was America Greatest?
- Money Can't Buy a House Seat in Maryland
- The Anti-Trump Voters are Discouraged
- Today's Demographic Statistic
- An Incantation: Carmina Burana 54
- The First Amendment Does Protect You from Mistakes
- Why Westerners Join the Islamic State
- The Visconti Hours
- Former Social Justice Warriors
- Ponder
- Anti-American Posters in Iran
- 10th Century Viking Crucifix from Denmark
- How Racist is the American Criminal Justice System?
- Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
- Scarlet Macaws, Hero Twins, and Pueblo Ancestors
- Clever People and the SunEdison Bankruptcy
- Suicide, Inequality, and Hope
- Where the Whales Died
- Why Finance has Taken Over the American Economy
- The New Populism: Jackson Out, Tubman In
- Crusader Graffiti
- The Hand of Homo Naledi
- Primaries and Democratic Legitimacy
- Hillary Celebrates her Big Win in New York
- Laurits Andersen Ring
- Biomedicine Crisis Looming
- Young Racists and the Internet
- Bamboo Slips Revolutionizing China's Ancient Past
- Millions of Stray Dogs
- Monkey Inequality
- Georgetown's Slave Sale
- The Climate Change Hiatus and the Weird Presentism...
- HGA Architects: Lakewood Cemetery Garden Mausoleum...
- The Crisis in Social Science Continues
- The Battle of the Harzhorn, c. 235 CE
- Planting Day
- The Shipwreck Gown
- The Inevitability of Partisanship
- Pink
- The Karleby Hoard
- Clinton's Argument
- Speed Reading is Bunk
- Wisteria
- Safe Spaces Rhetoric Turned Against Protesters
- The Activist's Crede
- Is Liberalism in Trouble?
- Crazy Colors in Georgetown
- Clocks and Economic Growth in the Renaissance
- How to Tell If You're in a Viking Saga
- Jeff Merkley Endorses Bernie Sanders
- Goya: Three Witch Paintings
- Hi Tech Sweat Shops
- Odin from Lejre
- The Bureaucrats of Ancient Judah
- At the National Museum of Natural History
- The Geography of Early Death in America
- More Weird, Grim News from North Korea
- The Mummies of Xiaohe
- Airports, or, What Architecture is For (Again)
- For I am Old and Jaded and Find Your Ranting Silly
- William Walcot: Etchings and Drawings
- John Thomas, Siege of Enniskillen Castle
- The Republican Train Wreck
- Trump's Christian Supporters
- Ale's Stones
- Like to be Lord of the Manor?
- Redbud
- Preserving Nazi Heritage
- Free Trade
- New Rules for Financial Advisers
- Turtles and the Afterlife
- The Temple at Garni, Armenia
- Viking Sails
- Conflicts of Interest in Iceland and in General
- What Polarization Really Means
- The Changing Office Workforce
- Spring Equinox at Horseshoe Mesa, Arizona
- The Last Temptation of Christ (Updated)
- Etruscan Inscription from Poggio Colla
- Dust Devil on Mars
- Is Mental Illness More Common than it Used to Be?
- Vulcans for Hillary
- Monreale: Paradise in Stone
- Zaha Hadid's Legacy
- Francis Towne
- Point Rosee: Another Viking Site in North America?
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
1 comment:
The sad thing is, these are are based in some pretty valid complaints underneath the propagandic symbolism.
We do rather love using our M16s and our bombs to get our way in the world, in particular to quench our thirst for oil. And it's impossible to deny that Israel has become a nation built on brutality and Apartheid, with whatever merits Zionism might have once possessed being completely overshadowed by the monstrous institutional cruelty leveled against the Palestinians.
And interestingly, while one cannot deny Iran has its own problems of horrific systemic oppression and government crackdowns on dissent, they do at least seem to restrict it based on political and ideological deviancy, and don't much discriminate based on race or ethnicity. (Except perhaps against the Israelis, but that's an external dispute between nations, not an internal one between different groups within the country.) You might end up imprisoned or executed for speaking out against the regime, but you won't suffer simply for being born the wrong ethnicity.
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