We will be arranging a public Zoom memorial for Daniel in the coming months. This will be announced here on Daniel's Twitter with plenty of advance notice. Thank you.
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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."
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A note for media: has generously made his 2020 photos of Daniel and Patricia available for sharing via the link below. Please credit him as follows: "Photo by Christopher Michel "
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A note from : Soon I will be transitioning Daniel's Twitter account to a profile in his memory. I will occasionally share gems from Daniel's voluminous unpublished writing, which he authorized me and my brother to edit and publish.
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(Robert’s children) Nicholas Ellsberg (36), Catherine Ellsberg (30), and (28)
(Mary’s children) Julio Martinez - (38) and Ana Martinez - (34)
Nicholas and Sophie Ellsberg have a daughter Eileen, age 3, Daniel’s great-granddaughter
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Daniel’s surviving family:
Wife- Patricia Ellsberg (85)
Son- (67)
Daughter- (64)
Son- (46)
(Grandchildren below...)
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Links to Daniel's post-diagnosis interviews:
ellsberg.net/interviews-pos
[Photo of Daniel and Patricia in 2020, by ]
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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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Panel on prosecuting whistleblowers/criminalizing journalism with and me at on 4/28/23:
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Pentagon Papers whistleblower recently announced he has been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. He recently sat down with Democracy Now! for an in-depth interview about his life, legacy and how he is spending his final days.
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"We are at this moment on a road to Hell."
I discussed the Espionage Act, Julian Assange, and his own experiences with the Pentagon Papers, with the one and only on my show tonight:
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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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Pentagon Papers leaker : ‘Clearly unconstitutional’ classified labeling ‘negates’ First Amendment
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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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All the young activists rising up give me hope as I leave my life. As the movement against the Vietnam War showed, young people can save lives when they make their care known in action. Keep going. The world is in your hands. cnn.com/videos/tv/2023
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"It has been said that it’s good to live each day as though it were your last, but that’s not really practical. Living this *month* as though it is my last, however, is working out well for me, and I can recommend it."
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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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The video will be posted at some point after, here:
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Lecture on a lifelong concern of mine, "The Human Toll in America's Air Wars," by , a new hero of mine. Tues 11/15, 7PM EST, on Zoom and in person at UMass Amherst. Organized by . Register here: blogs.umass.edu/feinberg/the-h
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1/ Announcing the Inaugural Ellsberg Lecture:
"The Human Toll of America's Air Wars" by 2022 winning investigative reporter Khan.
11/15, 7pm EST, in person at and online.
Register at bit.ly/feinberg-nov15
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Chomsky and me (hosted by ) on the legacy of Gorbachev, with relevance to Ukraine and Taiwan:
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The UK is complicit with the US in criminalizing journalism. I call on and to drop the extradition and prosecution of Julian Assange.
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BREAKING
Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, and Alice Walker React to the Assange Extradition Sign Off:
"It is a sad day for western democracy."
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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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