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Daniel Ellsberg
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Author of "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" and "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers."
Berkeley, CAellsberg.net/doomsday/Born April 7Joined July 2009

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For as long as I've known , he has continuously expressed a desire to do more to end the government's abuse of secrecy; that for the state to deceive the public is to undermine democracy. We're proud to announce a new effort, in his name, for your right-to-know:
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In honor of a whistleblowing legend: Announcing the @DanielEllsberg Chair on Government Secrecy. freedom.press/news/in-honor-
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I was recently on a panel w/ where he implored a room of 200 reporters to skeptically investigate the secrecy system. So in honor of our dear friend, we're going to do just that: Announcing the Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy
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“The war in Ukraine, he said, “feels very similar to Vietnam. The war is stalemated, that seems so obvious now except for the fact that both sides totally deny it.” With months to live, Daniel Ellsberg talks to ⁩ about the Discord Leaks.
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Nothing like it! Tuesday on : the premiere of "The Movement and the 'Madman,'" a film on the most effective mass protest action during the Vietnam War, perhaps any war. It stopped Nixon’s secret plan to initiate nuclear attacks on North Vietnam. A must-see.
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Discover the story of the 1969 showdown between President Nixon and the antiwar movement. “The Movement and the ‘Madman’” premieres Tue, March 28 at 9/8c on @AmExperiencePBS.
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I wrote this letter recently to my friends in the antiwar and anti-nuclear movements. I see it’s being circulated, so I’ve decided to share it here. For all of you working on these issues, thank you, and please keep going!
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To and : Stop the extradition of Assange. I am as indictable as he is on the exact same charges. I will plead "not guilty" on grounds of your blatantly unconstitutional use of the Espionage Act. Let's take this to the Supreme Court.
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EXCLUSIVE: “Let me tell you a secret… I had possession of the all the Chelsea Manning information before it came out in the press” - Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says he was given leaked US diplomatic cables “as a backup” by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
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In-depth discussion of the profitability for the US military-industrial complex of prolonging wars like Ukraine:
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“People ask: why don't we learn from our failures in Vietnam, and Afghanistan, and elsewhere?” “And the answer is who has a lesson to learn?” @DanielEllsberg tells @marclamonthill in an #Upfront Special on the business of war. Full Interview: youtu.be/YPSGNwv1ptc
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