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The Void Of War

April 9, 2016 – 11:10 am

troy, chaos, saudi murderers, peace in our time In the 12th or 13th Century the Achaeans amassed an invasion army to vanquish the City of Troy. The formidable walls of their rival resisted nine years of siege, but finally Ulysses tricked the Trojans with a wooden horse secretly filled with Greek warriors. That night Troy […]

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The Sacrifice Of War

November 20, 2015 – 9:58 pm

After the Fall of Troy the Eastern Mediterranean endured several centuries of chaos. Greece was consumed by wars between the city-states and Asia Minor suffered anarchy until the rise of the Persian Empire. The collapse of Saddam’s Baathist dictatorship in Iraq has created a black hole of violence fueled by money and weapons. Syria’s collapse […]

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