I used to think that the Trail of Tears, the forcible removal of Native Americans from their homeland, was a low point in American history. But now the US is paying for the ethnic cleansing of 6 million Palestinian people.

Freedom of speech is not a gift from the US Constitution. It is an ideal that we the people must win for each generation. We will always have our Nixons, our Obamas and our Joe Bidens. These liars will always try to hide their crimes from the people they were elected to serve.

The US is intimately involved in another killing killing field, that of Gaza. This one comes the closest to the Holocaust of the Third Reich, with millions of Palestinians being slaughtered.

Perhaps we are approaching another tipping point. We have watched Israel destroy the hospitals, schools, homes of two million Palestinians. We have seen the moonscape that has been left by US jets and US bombs.

Peltier was a leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM), an Indigenous civil rights organization that was infiltrated and harassed by the FBI. False charges and phony evidence were just the way the FBI dealt with anyone it considered dangerous to US interests.

If you are horrified at what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, try identifying where these crimes are really coming from. We have a two party war machine that thinks the world belongs to us. Our super wealthy elites perpetuate military aggression because they make billions more with each new mass slaughter.

Looked at this way, the genocide in Gaza is an American phenomenon. Our colony, Israel, has lost its way. But Gaza is a mirror that reflects the US Empire, and the overwhelming support of our political class is just another measure of a society that has lost all its sanity.

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was fundamentally antiracist, and would have opposed Israeli theocracy, just as it had resisted the domination of the Spanish Catholic Church.

It may take a truth and reconciliation commission to unwind all the crimes of 75 years of Israeli oppression. But the truth could set us free. We would no longer be complicit in the worst human rights disaster of the 21st century.

The world is reaping what it has sown in the Holy Land. We see the US aiding and abetting the genocide of two million Palestinians in Gaza, a war crime that will stain our national honor for the rest of recorded history. If only we had listened to Albert Einstein.

We the people demand that our country end support for the fascist state of Israel. There will be no genocide in all our names. And we will shut down this country if we have to.

Today, Haiti remains under the boot of US dominance and neoliberalism. US companies prosper by paying slave wages.

The West, with its system of oppressing workers to feed the very rich, did not like the Soviet emphasis on worker rights and economic justice.

The antiwar movement, however, was mortally wounded. The world rose up against US imperialism, but the empire paid no attention. It had the troops and the missiles. To hell with what the world might think.

None of the killers were ever convicted, and they all kept their jobs after the massacre. It is no wonder that Southern politicians want to limit what is taught in schools or offered in libraries.

How quickly these lunch counter protests expanded, and how multiracial the participants were. It was the right time, and a huge number of young people suddenly organized against Jim Crow segregation.

The current marches and rallies against Israeli Apartheid, that we see almost every day in our country, come closest to the antiwar movements of the late 1960s. And maybe that is the only way to stop Israeli genocide.

No matter what the World Court decreed about war crimes committed against Nicaragua, its results were hidden from US citizens.

Will the Genocide in Gaza fade from our memories in the same way? Will the 8,000 plus Palestinian children bombed, burned and starved to death, will they just become another Wikipedia paragraph?

American students must be given the right to express themselves about racism, about the gross inequity between the working class and the filthy rich, and about this nation of ours that continuously fights wars in Third World countries.

White supremacists have always wanted to bring back the Wilson Era. One can hear the voice of Wilson in the hateful and dangerous rhetoric of former President Trump.

But love of science and intellectual curiosity are not the only characteristics of our species. We are also killers, and the stronger the country, the more barbaric its actions.

Our toys, our movies, and our cultural events are all built around war and killing. The untold murders the empire commits in the Third World come back to haunt us in our daily lives.

The links between the treatment of Palestinians is too obvious to even point out. Israel is forcing Palestinians into ever smaller enclaves, and then bombing them with high tech weaponry. It is simply a massacre.

Who will be our peace candidate to challenge President Biden for the Democratic nomination? Let us start building the next resurgent campaign for a world free from the American war machine.