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Il y a 3 jours · One year ago on June 16th 2023, the famous whistleblower and anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg passed away. From his beginnings as an archetypal "Cold Warrior" who worked at the highest levels of governmental war planning, to becoming one of the most passionate anti-war activists in the world, Ellsberg’s legacy is well worth examining.
Il y a 4 jours · Daniel Ellsberg was born in Chicago in 1931. In 1959, Ellsberg became a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation and a consultant to the Defense Department and the White House. Ellsberg worked on the top-secret McNamara study, U.S. Decision-making in Vietnam, 1945-68, which later came to be known as the Pentagon Papers.
Il y a 3 jours · Daniel Ellsberg, a Defense Department analyst working for the RAND Corporation, had given the two newspapers top-secret documents. They showed not only that the US was losing the war in Vietnam but that the Pentagon had known the US couldn’t win the war for many years and kept fighting it anyway.
Il y a 17 heures · Protest the use of ICBMs till they’re eliminated. “When I say that there is a step that could reduce the risk of nuclear war significantly that has not been taken but could easily be taken, that is the elimination of American ICBMs.” –Daniel Ellsberg (1931-2023) An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a land-based nuclear weapon.
Il y a 5 jours · Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the death of Daniel Ellsberg, a man once dubbed, “the most dangerous man in America” for leaking the 1971 Pentagon Papers. As a front-row seat to the drama of the events of that time, I found Steve Sheinkin’s Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War to be engaging, enthralling, and eye-opening.
Il y a 4 jours · Daniel Ellsberg, who has died aged 92 was the soldier, economist and military thinker who leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times in 1971; as a result he...
Il y a 3 jours · In her first work of personal history, novelist Francine Prose reflects on the short, intense relationship she had with Tony Russo, who was indicted in 1971 with Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the ...
