Does the violence and ethic cleansing in the West Bank and Gaza get left out of our media because of US contradictions? We praise freedom and human rights when it comes to Ukraine, and yet send billions to Israel for its slaughter of Palestinians.

Does that mean one of our political parties can capitalize on worker mistreatment and abuse, especially since the gap between the rich and poor is now the highest it has ever been?

How does a oppressed population learn to live, and finally to prosper in a violent and racist society? We can look at the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank as examples of what racism can do.

Some day, the US people will tear down a government that is completely bought and paid for by the filthy rich. There is such poverty, homelessness and inequality while the two major corporate parties spend all our money on war.

If the American people were asked about risking a nuclear winter, why they would be horrified. Not so the corporations that earn billions making new hydrogen bombs. They make the most profit by keeping the United States on the edge of nuclear conflict.

Bob Dylan achieved monumental fame, which was probably his goal all along. That was not the goal of our finest troubadour, whose guitar bore the words, This machine kills fascists.

The second chapter of the US in Vietnam would not involve prep school elites or secret Yale societies. The actual fighters would be the poor and people of color. The underclass would do the real bleeding for the economic gains that the elites hungered for.

We live in the most militarized nation the world has ever seen. Our wars are all over the globe with 800 military bases always looking for a new fight with Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, China and Russia.

Looking back, the brutality and slaughter in South Africa was nothing like what is going on in Apartheid Israel. At times, dozens were being shot, and not thousands. Not ten thousands.

Workers have every right to be angry. It is really the only way that labor has clawed anything back from the billionaire class, that has made Wall Street speculation the backbone of our economy.

The Vietnam War accentuated the social and economic divisions in our nation. Blacks and Latinos paid the price for US militarism abroad. The middle class paid the wartime bills, and the very rich, well they made out great.

Jeff Cohen

Woodstock taught us that at times our society can be shaken to its roots. One such rebellion might just work to really change our country.

As the genocide in Gaza continues unabated, and as the children in the thousands die of hunger, we must conclude that the state has lost any pretense of morality.

The fate of the Palestinians rests with the people of the world, who may get so disgusted with the Israel/US extermination tactics that they rise up and demand an end to the apartheid state.

Both our political parties are pro genocide, eager to support Israel at every step of the way. It is our imperialist system, stupid.

We need the courage to speak out when we see our country aiding a genocide. And we must insist that our Constitution comes before the tens of millions in dark money supporting the Israeli butchers.

There would be many beatings and killings before Black people finally got the right to vote.

Today, we have a capitalist system based on the selling weaponry to the rest of the world. Ukraine and Palestine are only the latest victims of our American Empire that starts wars to feed its Military Industrial Complex.

Israel and the United States will eventually be codefendants for the genocide we are witnessing on our computer screens every night. Blinken, Biden and the Democratic Party all have blood on their hands.

What has happened to turn the US Empire into a wanton killing machine in the Middle East? What possible geopolitical gain can come from murdering tens of thousands of young Palestinians? How did Israel turn into the Third Reich?

Does this sound like what Israel is doing to two million Palestinians today? Bombing them with US supplied high tech weaponry, and slaughtering their children with bunker busters and white phosphorus.

We are a supposed democracy, dedicated to human rights for all. At the same time, we are paying for and defending a genocide of the Palestinian people, all because America, the empire, wants to own the entire Middle East.

All across the country college students have rebelled against the massive carnage in Gaza, bought and paid for by the US. And like 1937, the elites have willingly sent in their police goons to end the resistance.