Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Thu, 12/14/2006 - 00:24.
I've heard of Inca brain surgery, but never ancient Mexican open-heart surgery. And in any case, the images in (for instance) the pre-Columbian Laud Codex show a huge obsidian dagger being thrust into the "patient's" chest, with blood spurting everywhere. This would appear to depict something a bit more brutal than surgery. Accompanying images depict people being garroted, devoured by death's heads, etc. The scale of Mexica human sacrifice is subject to debate. That it existed really isn't. I find it funny that you complain of scientific dogmatism, Tlakatekatl. You don't seem particularly open to the possibility that you are wrong.
Finally, this question is pretty irrelevant to contemporary political struggles: the Mexica don't have to have been flawless paragons of human perfection for their heirs to be entitled to land rights and sovereignty. And I acknowledged that Mexica human sacrifice was actually small potatos (an Aztec word, BTW) compared to the horrors underway in Europe in the same century (Inquisitions, holy wars, bubonic plague, et cetera ad nauseum...)
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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WAR AT THE CROSSROADS
An Historical Guide Through the Balkan Labyrinth
The Balkan region is intensely multicultural - a point of crossroads and clash for some of the world's major religions, cultural spheres, and economic systems. While there have been vicious wars in Balkan history, these have taken place in the context of manipulation by imperial powers and the self-serving local leaders who cater to them.
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Shlomo responds:
I've heard of Inca brain surgery, but never ancient Mexican open-heart surgery. And in any case, the images in (for instance) the pre-Columbian Laud Codex show a huge obsidian dagger being thrust into the "patient's" chest, with blood spurting everywhere. This would appear to depict something a bit more brutal than surgery. Accompanying images depict people being garroted, devoured by death's heads, etc. The scale of Mexica human sacrifice is subject to debate. That it existed really isn't. I find it funny that you complain of scientific dogmatism, Tlakatekatl. You don't seem particularly open to the possibility that you are wrong.
Finally, this question is pretty irrelevant to contemporary political struggles: the Mexica don't have to have been flawless paragons of human perfection for their heirs to be entitled to land rights and sovereignty. And I acknowledged that Mexica human sacrifice was actually small potatos (an Aztec word, BTW) compared to the horrors underway in Europe in the same century (Inquisitions, holy wars, bubonic plague, et cetera ad nauseum...)