Slaves making bricks, Egypt 1274 BCE I missed a week of blogging as I was doing taxes. But tonight’s post will, I hope, more than make up for it. Below is a poem from Haggadah: a Celebration of Freedom. It is read with the fourth cup of wine at the Passover seder. (You can order this […]
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Assyrian Empire: Blood at the Banquet
By Martha Shelley on December 14, 2014 in Assyria, Empire, Jezebel, Middle East, The Throne in the Heart of the Sea
This week the big news in the U.S. has been about torture, as conducted by the C.I.A. after 9/11. I’ve spent some time with the comments section in my hometown newspaper: the majority of readers are outraged, while some defend the practice. Some even seem naïve enough to be shocked. However, most ruling elites, ours […]