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.

Now that we are all together around a Thanksgiving table, enjoying our extended family, let us give thanks that we are not starving in Gaza. That our children have not been blown up or incinerated by white phosphorus. That they have clean water, and shelter from the storm.

Is it any wonder that a country that trains torturers and assassins for Central America, would provide weaponry and billions of dollars to the Israeli government, that is now committing genocide against 2 million Palestinians?