Activist Radio Fred Nagel

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.