Ancient Mesopotamian warfare progressed from companies of a city’s militia in Sumer to the professional standing armies of Akkad, Babylon, Assyria, and Persia and from conflicts over land or water rights to wars of conquest and political supremacy. Developments in weaponry, training, and tactics made the armies of Mesopotamia among the most effective in the ancient world.
On this day, 13 February 1913, 82-year-old Irish-born labour activist Mother Jones was arrested in West Virginia after martial law was declared to suppress a coal miners’ strike. She was charged with inciting a riot – reportedly for attempting to read the Declaration of Independence – and conspiracy to commit murder. Tried and convicted in a military court, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Jones declared “Whatever I have done in West Virginia… I have done it all over the United States. And when I get out, I will do it again.” She was released and pardoned after serving 85 days, although she did contract pneumonia in prison.
Learn more in our podcast episodes 57-58 about West Virginia miners’ struggles at that time: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e57-west-virginia-mine-wars-1902-1922/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2209059455945859/?type=3
with UFO sightings being reported left and right and a new wave of hysteria surrounding it, could you please explain why are the US so damn fixated on UFOs and aliens as a cultural phenomenon? i am not from the US, and i don't even consider myself some kind of ultraskeptic who rejects all weirdness in this world as either delusion or wrong data. but there's something uniquely deranged about how americans approach these reports and stories. what are the origins of this? anti-communism? WW2?
yeah the whole thing’s basically a psyop so that anyone who’s interested in finding out about Hidden Truths gets misdirected into dumb made-up sci-fi bullshit instead.
basically yeah
similar deal going on with mk-ultra- all the dumb bullshit about “illuminati monarch programming in the superbowl halftime show” makes it almost impossible to research the actual, factual cia program. and with 9/11, any serious investigation into the possibility that bush knew about the attacks beforehand, or that al qaeda was controlled opposition, gets drowned out by stupid shit about the planes being holograms and, of course, the antisemitism.
