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The Long Walk Home: Leonard Peltier Speaks

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‘Warriors on the plains” by Leonard Peltier

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Leonard Peltier, the 81-year-old Indigenous activist and longtime member of the American Indian Movement, speaks publicly for the first time since being released to home confinement after spending nearly half a century in prison. We’ve published several articles about his predicament:

Law’s Hopelessness, Part 1: Leonard Peltier’s 44-Year Ordeal – Gumshoe News

Leonard Peltier As Collateral Damage in FBI’s Task of Demoralizing Us – Gumshoe News

The “Wounded” Case of Leonard Peltier – Gumshoe News

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In an emotional interview with Amy Goodman, Peltier reflects on finally returning home to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, while noting that his freedom remains limited. Throughout the conversation he expresses deep gratitude to the generations of Indigenous leaders, human rights advocates and supporters around the world whose decades-long campaign helped secure his release.

Peltier recounts a childhood marked by government-run boarding schools, where Indigenous children were separated from their families.

His involvement with the American Indian Movement, he says, grew from a commitment to protecting treaty rights, defending Native communities and preserving Indigenous identity in the face of generations of historical injustice.

It is not surprising Peltier maintains that he was wrongfully convicted and says his trial was marred by serious injustices and wants future generations to know their history, protect their culture and never give up hope.

Now to Democracy Now (Amy Goodman):

“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home.” The Democracy Now article:

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to home confinement in February….

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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.

AMY GOODMAN: In a Democracy Now! global TV/radio broadcast exclusive, we spend the hour with longtime Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier…

…Peltier has always maintained his innocence.

Notable supporters of Leonard Peltier over the years included Nelson Mandela, Pope Francis and Amnesty International. Supporters of Peltier say his trial was marked by gross FBI and federal prosecutorial misconduct, including the coercion of witnesses, fabricated testimony and suppressed exculpatory evidence.

After being released in February, Leonard Peltier returned home to live on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota. September 12th was Leonard Peltier’s 81st birthday….

AMY GOODMAN: Hi. I’m Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, in the home of Leonard Peltier, just recently freed from prison after 49 years.

LEONARD PELTIER: Plus two months.

AMY GOODMAN: Plus two months.

LEONARD PELTIER: Yeah.

AMY GOODMAN: I’ve spoken to you so many times, Leonard, in prison, in various prisons, several of them supermax prisons. It is quite astonishing to be here with you in person. Tell us where we are. Where are we sitting?

LEONARD PELTIER: We’re sitting in my home, that was given to me by my supporters. This was not given to me by the tribe, or the government had nothing to do with it. I was released by Biden under a commutation of my sentence and home confinement. Actually, what happened was, I was — I was taken out of one prison cell and really put into another type of prison. But this is my home now. This is my home. So it’s a million times better.

AMY GOODMAN: Wait, what do you mean when you say you were taken out of your prison cell after more than 49 years, and you’re saying that you’re not completely free?

LEONARD PELTIER: No, no, I’m on very restrictive restrictions. Even to go to the post office, I got to call my — I call her my handler. I have to call her to go to the post office. Then, when I get back, I have to call her and tell her I’m back. Or if I go anything, if I go shopping or whatever, I have to do that. If I have to go a hundred miles past the nation — I don’t call my place a “reservation,” either; we’re nations of people — I have to get a pass, usually from Washington, D.C., to go to medical, usually medical, or religious ceremonies on different nations, Indian Native nations.

AMY GOODMAN: So, let’s go back to that moment when you were in that prison cell in Coleman, in Florida, and you got word that President Biden had commuted your sentence. It was just hours before he was leaving office? Can you tell us about that process, how it took place?

LEONARD PELTIER: Well, as I went through the years filing for pardons and stuff, Ronald Reagan was the first one to promise to leave me — pardon me. Somebody in Washington stopped it. There’s only one organization that could have stopped it, and didn’t have the power to stop it, but still, somehow, were in power, enough to where they can override a president of the United States, our Congress. It’s the FBI. And Reagan promised to let me go. And the FBI intervened, and that was stopped. And Bill Clinton and Obama, and, finally, we get to Biden.

And Biden, there was pressure put on him from all over the world. Almost every tribal nation here in the United States filed for my release, demanding my release. The United Nations — the United Nations did a full report on my case, and they demanded that I be released immediately and to be “paid,” quote-unquote. Hundreds of Congress and senators and millions of people —

AMY GOODMAN: And the pope.

LEONARD PELTIER: And the pope, two popes, the last pope and the current pope. And world leaders, many world leaders, demanded my release.

AMY GOODMAN: The Nobel Peace laureate, bishop — Archbishop Desmond Tutu?

LEONARD PELTIER: Yes. I was also nominated for — and nominated four times, because of my work from prisons, for a Nobel Prize. And the board and everything granted it, but somebody intervened again. So, four times, I lost that.

I think somebody was pushing Biden to stop any — any possibility of signing a pardon. So, he didn’t sign it until the last moment. And actually, a day and a half before he actually signed it and he was — his term was completed, I just took the position that, “Nah, he’s not going to do this.” And I just kind of laid back in my cell, and I thought to myself, “Well, I guess I die here, and this is the only ultimate sacrifice I can make, and I have to accept it. I have no other choice.”

TO CONTINUE… The Democracy Now article:

37 COMMENTS

  1. Yes, just another criminal injustice handed out by an evil system of psycho control freaks.
    Remember Amy Goodman’s interview with General WESLEY CLARK IN ABOUT 2008 covered up by ALL THE MEDIA AND THEIR PSYCHO LYING POLITICIANS (THE PLAN 7 countries in five years- delayed a bit for 25 years but still in operation in the Middle East- just Iran and Lebanon to go!)
    The world is run by psycho sick bastards.

    Anyway do not give up hope.
    Try ‘GENE DECODE FROM 21/6 with captain Kyle -alert’
    Replayed and linked at RUMORMILLNEWS.com on 28/6 at 00.00.30.
    Give it 20 mins from the start at least.
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  2. Con off it censor, it will not work trying to censor Gene decode.
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    So much fun for normies to distract from FIFA🙀

  4. Thanks Dee

    Ode to a Whistleblower

    https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/ode-to-a-whistleblower-video-tribute?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

    “I gratefully accepted this historic opportunity to celebrate the life of a man who exemplifies the rarest kind of bravery, which Diane Perlman captures in her “theory of ‘the Courageous Personality’”:
    “Veridos™ may represent less than 5% of the population. They see through deception, investigate truth and have the strength to challenge official narratives. They are truly courageous and refuse to remain silent.”

    Above is the resulting video, majestically scored by my husband in response to my request for a composition that captures the nobility, heroism, sacrifice, and triumph represented by Daniel Ellsberg’s life and the many other whistleblowers who have overcome their self-preservation instincts to defend humanity from our parasitic oppressors.”

    • Anti-Semitic Ideology: Wilhelm Marr

      “……….His reasons – and the legitimate reasons – for disliking Jews, he stated,
      rather than being religious, had to do with Jewish “abhorrence of real work’’
      and their inclination to exploit the labor of others. That abhorrence was
      linked to the Jews’ “animosity established in law” for non Jews.7 Even when
      Jews appear outwardly courteous, inwardly they seethe with derision for the
      Goyim, and they scheme relentlessly to find ways to subjugate them, to under
      mine their society. Wherever they go, Jews try to dominate and jewify the sur
      rounding society To do so is in their racial nature, their essence; it is part of
      the destructive mission of Jewry in history………’

      https://ia801203.us.archive.org/29/items/albert-s.-lindemann-esaus-tears-modern-anti-semitism-and-the-rise-of-the-jews-1870-1933/Albert%20S.%20Lindemann%20-%20Esaus%20Tears%3A%20modern%20anti-semitism%20and%20the%20rise%20of%20the%20jews%201870-1933.pdf

      THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF BARNABAS

      From The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden, Collins-World Publishers

      The following leads me to think of the parasites called Banks –

      4. Neither, says he, will you eat the eagle, nor the hawk, nor the kite, nor the crow; that is, you must not keep company with the kind of men who do not know how to get themselves food by their labor and sweat, but injuriously steal the things of others and watch how to lay snares for them, when at the same time they appear to live in perfect innocence.

      5. So these birds alone seek not food for themselves, but sitting idle seek how they may eat the flesh others have provided, being destructive through their wickedness.

      Capitalists hold a far greater share of the wealth than the worker.

      Susan George Transforming The Global Economy

      https://archive.org/details/susan-george-transforming-the-global-economy

      • “The Communist soul is the soul of Judaism. Hence it follows that, just as in the Russian revolution the triumph of Communism was the triumph of Judaism, so also in the triumph of fascism will triumph Judaism.” (A Program for the Jews and Humanity, Rabbi Harry Waton, p. 143-144). 
         
        Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
        “You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They Hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse…More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their blood- stained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of its perpetrators.”
         
        “To initiate a war of aggression…,” said the Nuremberg Tribunal judges in 1946, “is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
         
        http://johnpilger.com/articles/why-the-rise-of-fascism-is-again-the-issue

  8. Onya, Peltier, but we’re not finished yet.

    We still have to deal with your arrest and prosecution which may have been malicious.

  9. The courageous of mind(you all), will be late home. I hear the porch light is on but I’m not looking for it, just now. Nor am I following blind to the obvious, oblivious, just desert(this language is the devils work)

    I don’t struggle with why all those world leaders called repeatedly for this mans release, yet, the outcome. They are simply actors and Satanists

    • “The Peltier effect is a physical phenomenon where applying a voltage across a junction of two dissimilar conductors (metals or semiconductors) causes heat to either be absorbed or released, creating a temperature difference between the two sides. It acts as a solid-state heat pump’ thanks a.i, I would add a heat exchanger can pump liquid, gas, solid and sublimated inbetweens

      its just a turned stone peeps, supermax is code for mind-torcher. no typo

  10. Richard Wolff: Iran War UNRAVELS US Empire, Economic Collapse Has ALREADY BEGUN
    Danny Haiphong
    Economist and Professor Richard Wolff discusses what Trump and the talking heads won’t: that a major economic collapse is already underway and it’s unravelling the US empire. Prof. Wolff breaks it down.
    Trump only needs to placate the top 10% while the majority still haven’t woken up to what’s really going on.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02eb0UloLJA

    • David McBride’s last-ditch attempt to overturn conviction thrown out by High Court
      Fri 10 Oct 2025
      https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-10/high-court-rejects-last-appeal-david-mcbride-jail-sentence/105875970
      David McBride was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison for stealing and leaking classified defense secrets to journalists. Under his sentence, which includes a non-parole period of two years and three months, he is eligible for release in August

    • “……….There is one ‘precise’ provocateur now; it is clear to see for those who want to see it and foretell its actions. It is a gang of states led by the United States whose stated objective is ‘full spectrum dominance’. Russia is still the hated one, Red China the feared one. From Washington and London, the virulence has no limit. Israel, the colonial anachronism and unleashed attack dog, is armed to the teeth and granted historical impunity so that ‘we’ the West ensure the blood and tears never dry in Palestine. British MPs who dare call for a ceasefire in Gaza are banished, the iron door of two-party politics closed to them by a Labour leader who would withhold water and food from the children of Palestine……………”

  12. The World Cup Scam. Another Unseen Partner? Netanyahu

    By Huseyin Vodinali

    While a registered genocidal terrorist state like Israel could participate in the World Cup, Russia, which entered Donbass to protect its own people, over 15,000 of whom have been killed by the Nazi Kiev regime for 12 years, was banned!

    Global Research

    • Absolutely hypocritical policy by the FIFA CONTROLLERS.
      If they are banning players from particular countries due to the actions of governments of their countries, THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANY COUNTRY PARTICIPATING , excepting from countries being the world’s arseholes……. .
      If all country’s players joined in the competition, even they can play and understand the meaning of humanity, competition and comradeship , not to forget being a example of needed friendship to wake up the inhumane leaders.
      They can have a biff up according to the sports rules💁🤪
      I recall the 1956 Melbourne Olympic reports of the Hungarians ? blooding the pool with the soviets blood and of the opponents.
      Time for the political HYPOCRITICAL CONTOL FREAKS TO GROW UP.
      THEY ARE SHIT BORING.
      PERHAPS THEY SHOULD WATCH THAT SILLY COMPETITION BETWEEN THE GAME OF ORIFIN BETWEEN NSW AND THE NORTHERN CANE TOADS.
      WE HAVE IDIOTS AND PSYCHOS RUNNING THE WORLD.
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        • Imagine millions of viewers over the world watching a soccer World Cup game between Israel and Iran, or Lebanon or with anyone left in Gaza🍿
          Then they all exchange jerseys as the players/teams walk off the field.
          Let the politicians crawl into their bunkers as the world laughs at them.
          So how stupid are the FIFA CONTROLLERS STICKING THEIR NOSES INTO THE WORLD GAME.
          Ref; NWO EXPOSED BY INSIDER AT RENSE.com 1969 dr Day address to paediatricians in Philadelphia … socker to be the globalist sport. FOR DISTRACTIONS and globalist word governance.
          Stuff the globalists! It can be used for independent sovereign pride.
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          Turn the concept

    • The Israel national men’s football team did not qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Competing in UEFA’s qualification process, the team failed to advance from a group that included Italy and Norway, ultimately missing out on the final tournament in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
      What a shame!
      Russian tennis players are not banned from playing in individual professional tournaments. They can compete in all major events, including Grand Slams, the ATP Tour, and the WTA Tour. However, they are prohibited from representing Russia or using the Russian flag.
      This also applies to Belarusian players.

  13. WTPN SITUATION UP DATE – Judy Byington 7/1 at http://www.beforeitsnews.com – people powered news that not one media fake mob tells you.
    At least listen from the hour.
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    • The Edomites
      “In the days of John Hyrcanus… the [non-Israelite] Edomites became a section of the Jewish people.” Article entitled “EDOM,” Encyclopaedia Judaica Vol. 6, p. 378 (1971)

      The Jews are of Esau (Esau married into the Canaanites – descendents of Ham – Edom, Edomites) from Idumea, and therefore not of Israel or Judah; Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925, vol. 5, page 41.

      This controversy is one of the major themes of Scripture throughout history. It appears again in Ezekiel 35, 36, where we find that the descendants of Esau-Edom (or Idumea) coveted the land and rejoiced when Israel and Judah went into captivity. Divine judgment is thus pronounced “against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession” (Ezekiel 36:5).

      John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

      http://gods-kingdom-ministries.net/daily-weblogs/2014/11-2014/the-looming-controversy/

      http://gods-kingdom-ministries.net/teachings/books/who-is-an-israelite/chapter-5-israel-in-romans-9-11/

    • Judah married and had sons to the daughter of foreign gods——a Canaanite woman. Malachi, chapter 3 & 2:11., Genesis 38:1-10 who later intermarried with the children of Esau/Edom. Herod was an Edomite.

      A Jewish Mother decides legal status as to identity.

      “In the days of John Hyrcanus [126 BC]… the [non-Israelite] Edomites became a section of the Jewish people.” Article entitled “EDOM,” Encyclopaedia Judaica Vol. 6, p. 378 (1971)

      The Jews are of Esau and therefore not of Israel or Judah; Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925, vol. 5, page 41.

      “Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a Jew or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or Hebrew.” Jewish Almanac 1980.
      “Esau-Edom is modern Jewry.” 1925 Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. 5 page 41. (Edomites are from Idumea NOT of Israel or Judah. Edomite Jews (Judeans) were NEVER SLAVES in Egypt with Moses: John 8:33

      2Esdras 6:9 …”For Esau[Edom} is the end of this age, and Jacob is the beginning of the age that follows”…

      Thirteen: America’s Number On the Great Seal

      https://www.greatseal.com/symbols/thirteen.html

      The value of father in “Esau, the father of Edom” is 13 – Genesis 36:43

  17. 1,800 baked Herculaneum Scrolls now readable
    We can now read scrolls that are 2 thousand years old.

    When Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii in 79CE it buried the Herculaneum library with its philosophical works, mostly from Philodemus of Gadara an Epicurean philosopher.

    However without oxygen these scrolls did not burn they baked. It is now possible to read them and some have been read already see below.
    https://www.ryandawson.org/p/1800-baked-herculaneum-scrolls-now?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=436513&post_id=204362042&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFree

  18. Israel’s ‘kill first’ strategy is now aimed at Turkey. Will the region respond?

    Hard power is needed to halt Israel’s reckless quest to redraw the borders of the Middle East in pursuit of “Greater Israel”. The power Israel lost to dictate the terms of peace on Iran, it has sought to regain in Lebanon. And Israel is now also focussing on Turkey (this has not gone down well with Trump).

    Read more

    https://israelpalestinenews.org/greater-israel-hard-power/

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