The US is now the rouge state threatening all the other nations on Earth. If a country has oil reserves, aluminum mines or rare earth deposits, they might find an aircraft carrier headed in their direction.

Stirring up those racial hatreds endangers the radical experiment in democracy that our country still represents.

That was the environment that fostered the despot we have for president now. Trump ran for office on hating everyone but white Christians men.

The cycle of worker exploitation followed by violence and finally federal troops was set back in the 1830s. Thousands of day laborers from Ireland and Germany were shipping to America and given low wages and terrible living conditions.

After The Massacre, the government decided to ban every aspect of indigenous culture, including their language, traditional clothing and even their music. In some some ways, this erasure is like some of the worst war crimes we have seen in Palestine.

I spent a year in Korea, as a member of the US military occupation force. I understand how racism is intertwined with occupation.

The Civil War saw at least 28,000 Black soldiers from New Orleans fighting on the Union Side, the highest percentage of any Southern state.

The revolt also established some new heroes of the people. There was masked man known only as Subcomandante Marcos, a tall, eloquent leader with a full knowledge of the history of oppression and colonization.

These are songs to restore our Constitutional Democracy.

Will there ever be peace as long as the US is fighting wars abroad? Will millions more have to die before the American people end the empire?