The International Institute of Nonviolence By: Rev. Jermano Finding the origin of Democracy and its meaning has been a surprising research endeavor. Just who invented Democracy? Where did it originally begin? Many...
opinion by djermano | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1048 views | 14 recommendations | 33 comments
"The Guennol Lioness is a 3.25-inch (8.3-cm) tall white limestone figure created 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers mostly in modern Iraq and Iran.
The sculpture is considered one f the last known masterworks...
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Part THREE of a FIVE-part series on Iraq's minorities.• Go to Part One: Iraq's Yazidis -- A Minority within a Minority • See Part Two: The Turkomans of Iraq -- A Minority with Major Impact• See Part Four:...
created by denseatoms | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1097 views | 15 recommendations | 2 comments
So much terrible conflict has been centered for so many centuries in the region where humans first began to develop some of the reasons for war - trade, calculating, writing, money, ideas, powerful...
created by Tom van B | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 697 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
First a recipe:
If you want to make homemade turtle soup, you have to be careful and
you must wait. You'd want to catch a sea turtle because you get thirty
or more pounds of meat from it depending on weight....
created by weamnamou | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 315 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The words China and Egypt, Athens and Rome, bring to most people's mind a mysterious history and a respected culture. Rarely will the word Mesopotamia, ancient Iraq, do the same. You'll probably receive...
created by weamnamou | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 869 views | 6 recommendations | 2 comments
"In his most recent hit piece aimed at undermining public opinion against the Iraq war effort, TIME journalist columnist [ed] Joe Klein begins his diatribe with a startling piece of photography. President Bush is...
created by nukegingrich | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 771 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"A revolt is brewing among our retired Army and Marine generals. This rebellion--quiet and nonconfrontational, but remarkable nonetheless--comes not because their beloved forces are bearing the brunt of ground combat in Iraq but because the retirees see the US adventure in...
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"The right wing has quite a gig. Bush divides the nation after 9/11, bull-rushes into and botches a war in Mesopotamia, spends my grandchildren's taxes like a Bizarro-world LBJ, and tramples on civil liberties....
created by war on terrr | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 436 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"BAGHDAD, Iraq | The man who supervised the bombers of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra last February, an act that set off a wave of brutal sectarian violence, has been captured.
Iraq’s national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, said the second-ranking leader of...
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