From New York, this is Democracy Now.

The first Thanksgiving story begins with the Piquot Massacre by members of the Massachusetts Bay colony, which really marks sort of, in my opinion,

marks sort of the mythology of the United States as a settler

colonial country founded on sort of genocide to create ironically peace.

As the nation marks Thanksgiving,

we speak to the indigenous scholar and activist Nick Estes

on settler colonialism and continuing indigenous resistance.

Then the dissenters.

Two former top officials, Craig MacIber at the United Nations

and Josh Paul at the State Department.

They both resigned from their jobs to protest the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.

I decided to resign for three reasons.

The first most pressing of which is the very

i believe uncontroversial fact that u s provided arms should not be used to

massacre civilians should not be used to result in in massive civilian

casualties and that is what we are seeing in Gaza.

The hardest part of proving genocide has been proven for us with these very open statements

of genocidal intent by Israeli officials including the

prime minister and the president and senior cabinet ministers and

military officials.

All that and more coming up. This is Democracy Now,

Democracy Now.

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