Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who in 1971 released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret history of U.S. activities during the Vietnam War compiled at the direction...
Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who in 1971 released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret history of U.S. activities during the Vietnam War compiled at the direction of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, to The New York Times. Since the end of the Vietnam War, Ellsberg has been a lecturer, scholar, writer and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era, wrongful U.S. interventions and the urgent need for patriotic whistleblowing. He is the author of four books.
Daniel Ellsberg / TruthdigJan 27, 2020
On the 10-year anniversary of his death, we revisit a piece by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about his close friend and role model. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
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The famed whistle-blower has been a sharp critic of the president, but he says a Romney/Ryan administration would be "catastrophically worse." Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
By Steven Starr, David Krieger and Daniel EllsbergOct 16, 2012
Fifty years after the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and more than 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the US and Russian nuclear confrontation continues Each nation still keeps a total of about 800 ICBMs at launch-ready status, ready to be fired on a few minutes' warningWith approximately 1,700 nukes at launch-ready status 50 years after the Cuban missile crisis, it is naive to assume that Russia and the U will never again be in a military confrontation. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Daniel Ellsberg / TruthdigJan 28, 2010
My friend Howard Zinn was, in my opinion, the best human being I've ever known. The best example of what a human can be, and can do with his life. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
Daniel Ellsberg / TruthdigSep 10, 2009
The document in his hand was almost unthinkable: It projected roughly 600 million deaths in a US-Soviet war Here’s the first installment of a memoir of the nuclear era by Daniel Ellsberg, the man who revealed the Pentagon PapersThe document in Daniel Ellsberg’s hand projected roughly 600 million deaths in a U. Dig deeper ( 22 Min. Read )
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Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame writes that “official secrecy and deceptions about our nuclear weapons posture and policies and their possible consequences have threatened the survival of the human species.”Daniel Ellsberg writes that deceptions about our nuclear weapons have "threatened the survival of the human species.” Dig deeper ( 26 Min. Read )
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