Episodes
Monday Oct 13, 2014
Leid Stories - 10/13/14
Monday Oct 13, 2014
Monday Oct 13, 2014
Christopher Columbus: The Truth About His New World ‘Discoveries’
Sure, take the day off, if you’re among that rare group of non-furloughed “essential” employees who get it as a paid day. But at least get to know the “hero” your country – except for the states of California, Nevada and Hawaii -- honors today for “discovering” that civilizations far more advanced than his own had been established and thriving for thousands of years before he accidentally came upon them on a plunderous mission to the East.
Christopher Columbus set in motion unrelenting waves of genocide throughout the “New World,” and ushered in the slave trade in the Caribbean and the Americas. Leid Stories presents an entirely different view not only of this merchant of death and destruction, but also of the conspiracy within the world of scholars to maintain Columbus’s voyages as the first historical point of contact with the “New World.”